Example sentences of "old [noun sg] who have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an old leftist who had fought in Spain in the International Brigade . |
| 2 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |
| 3 | The old guard who had stopped us talking before ambled past the wire on the outside . |
| 4 | Once again McNab paid tribute to the old guard who have seen Tranmere soar into third place in the First Division the highest placing in the club 's history . |
| 5 | A fatal submassive necrosis that occurred in a 68 year old lady who had received piroxicam for 15 months is described . |
| 6 | The old lady who had seen something from her window , all those years ago . |
| 7 | A couple of years ago we had a visit from a 91-year old lady who had left Uddingston in 1920 to emigrate to America — the tears flowed down her cheeks as she reminisced about playing here as a child . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Pair of daft kids ! 'said the old lady who 'd freed her foot of its plastic octopus by now . |
| 9 | He was just Margaret 's old chum who had loaned me a shoulder and was still metaphorically holding my hand . |
| 10 | The appellant had used offensive language to a 12 year old girl who had run home and complained to her father . |
| 11 | The woman next to me she won a hundred and then there was an old boy who 'd won fifty , then the old boy won four hundred did n't he , he was a lucky boy |
| 12 | In 1954 a fish was retrieved from the lower trachea and right bronchus of a 14 year old boy who had presented with acute severe dyspnoea after swallowing a live fish . |
| 13 | I could hear one of them , an old paratrooper who had fought in the desert . |
| 14 | A fourteen year old criminal who 's had holidays in Spain paid for by social services has been given a two-year supervision order . |
| 15 | A week later , while he was out jogging , he encountered the Commy old bat who had put the card in the flowers and made him look a fool to Viola . |
| 16 | You could pick out individual families : that old Grandma who had fallen asleep in her deckchair , legs apart , showing a formidable pair of bloomers ; the fat baby next to her pushing candy-floss into its chubby face with both hands , trying to find its mouth ; the Dad lying on his back like a stranded whale , great white beer belly rising majestically into the air . |
| 17 | Many thanks are due to all the members of the old team who have worked so hard for many years and given up so much of their time to represent the Society . |
| 18 | Two weeks on the beach at Mombasa , not in a hotel of course , but in the bungalow of an old friend who had survived freedom and independence in Kenya and still made a living out of East Africa 's import and export trade . |
| 19 | It had that quality of making you feel like an old friend who had visited there many times before . |
| 20 | A few years ago , he said , he met an old friend who had become a policeman . |
| 21 | D'Alembord was an old friend who had dined frequently with Sharpe and Lucille since they had come to the Netherlands . |
| 22 | At last Robert Sheldrake said , ‘ Good veterinary nurses are sometimes difficult to find , but Dawn is an old friend who has come to help us out in our new venture . ’ |
| 23 | One evening in their local pub , the Dog & Rabbit , an old gentleman who had moved out of the district on retirement , returned to visit his daughter who lived in the area . |
| 24 | One informed him that the seventeen year old offender who had caused two hundred and fifty pounds worth of damage to his car had been formerly cautioned . |
| 25 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |
| 26 | ‘ He could always make you tingle , just being near him , ’ wrote one old woman who had worked with him in Bury as a girl in 1929 . |
| 27 | A 24 year old woman who had had well controlled asthma since childhood developed acute chest tightness and wheeze . |
| 28 | ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ is religious music in its most contemporary and pure form , from a thirty year old woman who has devoted her soul to its production much as the monks of the middle ages created illuminated manuscripts . |
| 29 | One-half of the trainees had derived more confidence from attending courses , ranging from ‘ now being able to feed lambs through a stomach tube ’ ( this from a 50-year old farmer who had had sheep for 30 years ) to ‘ the confidence to tackle all but the most difficult workshop repair jobs ’ . |
| 30 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |