Example sentences of "old [noun] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pollarded trees you see in old woodland and hedgerow are clear evidence that they were once part of boundaries formed to enclose stock as well , maybe , as parish boundaries . |
| 2 | There are so many carp anglers , all fishing with high nutritive value ( HNV ) boiled baits , attached to hair- and bolt-rigs , usually at long range , you can not afford to persist with the old baits and rigs and expect much success . |
| 3 | And then there 's traces of er you know you could see where the old foundations and things were . |
| 4 | It 'll be full of old faggots and dickheads |
| 5 | Everywhere in public life , old families , old money and titles have been in decline , while business has advanced . |
| 6 | She sobbed into his cashmere overcoat , smelling the peculiar odour of him , Old Spice and cigar smoke . |
| 7 | I thought I was OK , but I was all Old Spice and acne . |
| 8 | Leila Williams ( a former beauty queen ) and Chris Trace were its virgin presenters , the show a seven-week experiment that caught on and gave the world John Noakes ' arse , the most famous shitting elephant ever , many an expedition to Ceylon , sticky-backed plastic , ‘ soldier dolls ’ , umpteen dogs , Sarah Greene ( cheers ) and a hell of a lot of jeeps paid for by old forks and ring-pulls . |
| 9 | The women took to old corduroys and sports jackets alongside their men folk . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you keep copies of all your old accounts and correspondence , Sir ? ’ the inspector asked Hutton . |
| 11 | Portadown will have to wait and see who their opponents will be as the other all-Dublin semi between Old Alexandra and Loreto ended scoreless after extra time . |
| 12 | Although it was published a couple of years ago , this book still remains one of the most useful all-round guides to restoring old houses and cottages . |
| 13 | ‘ A delightful duo full of picturesque old houses and villas — packed with interest and local colour . ’ |
| 14 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 15 | They ignored me safe in the open field where the old ridge and furrow strips and the flatter headlands where the plough was turned were clearly silhouetted by the sun . |
| 16 | ‘ Old rituals and traditions are cherished within each constituent College , ’ we are told , ‘ Boanerges ’ is as much loved as ever . ’ |
| 17 | Peter Hennessy has called the old G and G ‘ the lost tribe of British public life ’ . |
| 18 | They , guided by the strong impression in ‘ literary ’ circles that Chambers was an old bore and Fox was a non-starter , put up their own candidate , Lord David Cecil , a friend of Lewis 's , as it happened , and the English tutor at New College . |
| 19 | Out of the car park … then round the corner and into the High Street , full of fat old housewives and layabouts , past Woolworth 's and into Tesco 's — perhaps I can lose them among the counters . |
| 20 | Erm it 's Old Harlow and Churchgate Street it 's in therefore , it 's in the wealthiest part of town but many of the denizens of Old Harlow and erm Churchgate Street are , are sort of st are , are , are I suppose , you know , bourgeois liberals , bourgeois socialists yeah ? |
| 21 | Yeah , this was brought up last night at the meeting at of Old Harlow and Potter Street er forum . |
| 22 | If this is how bands who openly admit to being influenced by The Clash sound today , poor old Strummer and Jones ca n't be getting much sleep at night . |
| 23 | If this is how bands who openly admit to being influenced by The Clash sound today , poor old Strummer and Jones ca n't be getting much sleep at night . |
| 24 | Gardens laid out on different levels with herbaceous borders , lakes , water gardens , old hedges and lawns . |
| 25 | The heart of the village , now a conservation area , is the large green , with many old beech and chestnut trees adding beauty throughout the year . |
| 26 | David and Jane Hattatt have taken ten years to turn an old damson and apple orchard into one of the region 's most imaginative gardens . |
| 27 | The multi-tiered switch matrices give 100% routability with over 80% logic utilisation , enabling logic to be changed while retaining old pin-outs and performance . |
| 28 | Some people had old contracts and documents , and these too often confirmed some item in a piece of history . |
| 29 | For many it was their first introduction to a New Age in which the governments and countries would fall or be changed , society and the family would expire and a new order would rise up out of the ashes of old values and beliefs . |
| 30 | Old values and class patterns of behaviour became grafted on to a new economic class . |