Example sentences of "[pos pn] old [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not go about saying that there is another defeat for science , because its old ideas have been abandoned . |
| 2 | For a moment there , she had almost felt like her old self again , or at least glimpsed the idea of what her old self had been . |
| 3 | The house overlooks the River Thames , and is where Elizabeth Jane grew up ( her old nursery has been converted into a second kitchen ) . |
| 4 | The new class was mobile , following where the opportunities of trade or profession might lead , and leaving behind the communities in which its older members had been rooted . |
| 5 | She did not know that Neil 's anger and disgust with his old love had been fuelled more by her unpleasant reference to McAllister than anything else she had said to him . |
| 6 | Within three days word came back to Pétain that one whole battalion of his old regiment had been virtually wiped out , and one of its companies reduced to nineteen men . |
| 7 | The centres of our old cities have been ripped apart to make way for it . |
| 8 | The final indignities suffered by our old church has been in the last few years . |
| 9 | Our old ways have been rededicated to Christianity , the gods turned into saints , ’ Quirke went on . |
| 10 | As this was rather uncomfortable , a year later we were allocated a council house , this house was in where our old house had been and my nana 's house was in the neighbouring village of , so luckily in all our moves my brother and I never had to move schools . |
| 11 | So that when Greg Hocking , after an evening marking essays , came in at nine-fifteen for a good night pint , his friend the landlord said : ‘ Your old girls have been at it today . ’ |