Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] to [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rounded the top of Upper Loch Fyne listening to an old Madonna tape , the Material Girl singing ‘ Papa Do n't Preach , ’ which raised a smile from me , at least . |
| 2 | He did however agree to let Finubar , Prince of Eataine return to the Old World with them to study the new rulers of the Old World . |
| 3 | That night , she 'd said , ‘ If you 'd come out the Quindale way you 'd never 've got through ; it 's flooded right across the road from Briar Farm to the old water tower , three feet deep , burst water main , ’ and Luke had said , ‘ Yeah , ’ and gone out to the kitchen to raid the fridge . |
| 4 | About once a week , Swan would fly Little Billy back to the old tree in the forest to visit the Minpins . |
| 5 | On 26 January 1986 the first protest against the proposed lignite mining took place when over 2,000 people marched from Moortown school to the Old Cross at Ardboe where they held a rally . |
| 6 | Rigid US adherence to the old imperial measures may evoke nostalgia among engineers of yesteryear . |
| 7 | No mercy was shown by the New Zealand selectors to the old guard when they picked the squad to tour Australia . |
| 8 | One vignette follows another , taking the reader from disappointing Mount Fuji to the old ( and now gone ) Asahi Beer Hall in a Tokyo slum . |
| 9 | Written some 30 years earlier , it centres on the marriage joining a family of Jewish Berlin millionaires to an old Catholic Bavarian dynasty , covering the period from German unification to the first decade of this century , the time of the author 's early childhood . |