Example sentences of "[pron] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Age and income are strongly related in almost all samples , and the Social Attitudes Survey is no exception , as figure 13.3 shows ; the exact age of the earnings high point varies , but for almost everyone old age brings with it a diminution of income . |
| 2 | Every day objects , now grown quaint with age , evoke memories in everyone old enough to remember them and give youngsters a chance to see how their grandparents lived . |
| 3 | ‘ One of them old music-hall ballads of yours , Charlie . ’ |
| 4 | She says all them old people round there know him . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , Tom would n't let us go , kept fillin' up them old cracked china mugs of his . |
| 6 | His clothes , some of them old things of Theo 's which had been altered for him , were shabby , and were getting spattered with paint . |
| 7 | Hard unremitting work and bearing children made them old before their time . |
| 8 | There was a noticeboard with safety messages and memos , some of them old and yellow . |
| 9 | I suppose one of them old cows — well , they stood there rubbing of their old rumps about like that , you know ; and all at once this here tumbril fell down , and the back chain went right just over the front of har shoulders . |
| 10 | A number of them old , dedicated members of the Party who had joined when Mussolini first came to power — fraternized much too much with the Germans . |
| 11 | They were very short muzzle things , but them old things there like that , they were jumping when you were firing them you know . |
| 12 | Every surface was covered with photographs , many of them old , but all of them of women with babies . |
| 13 | You wan na watch them old mowmows yeah , they come there with their little carving knives , yeah , cut all the dangly bits off that , that 's right though in n it , |
| 14 | Look at them old teddies and things in there . |
| 15 | But them , them old blankets we had some because we need them when they come , I fold 'em |
| 16 | In the medium term , more over seventy fives , the elderly — or shall we call them old , no the elderly — erm and when the people of course were born in or around nineteen sixty four are sixty in the twenty twenties and twenty thirties , a lot of older people again . |
| 17 | Those who got selected either for constituencies , or for the Central Office list when it was established in the 1950s , tended to be those whom old buffers in the party already had a pretty good idea about , because they knew their fathers , their regiments or their schools . |
| 18 | ‘ I made it then , me old mate . |
| 19 | ‘ Good night , me old love . ’ |
| 20 | Between 2 January and 6 January 1939 , for example , the brothers walked forty-two miles in the Welsh Marches ( i.e. borders — from me Old English mearc ) , and rounded them off with a stay in Great Malvern . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , I 've come to see me old mate Bella here . |
| 22 | I 'll go there and kiss the stones , and I 'll go and kiss me old mother who is living in Dublin with some nuns . |
| 23 | Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ? |
| 24 | Of course I may be prejudiced — he called me Old Faithful . ’ |
| 25 | When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’ |
| 26 | Well , as I say to me old mate Keef ( cor , strike a light , there 's a crazy geezer an' no mistake ! ) … |
| 27 | ‘ Me old man 's got one from the market to burn but you can 'ave it , ’ said Rosa , who had already started with her sixth child . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's a smart pair of daisies ’ ( daisy root = boots ) ; ‘ She 's me old Dutch ’ ( Duchess of Fife = wife ) ; ‘ Use your crust ’ ( crust of bread = head ) — more widespread now as ‘ Use your loaf . ’ |
| 29 | CALL ME old , call me antiquated , but I remember a time when The Railway Children were , if not quite press darlings , then at least going on the occasional date with the media . |
| 30 | Dear Stan , me old china |