Example sentences of "[adj] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is open to debate whether the small round building built in front as part of the Regional Government complex detracts from the renovated old building . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is the historic old houses you are likely to recall long after the memory of the well kept gardens , water sports , smart promenades and bathing pools have faded . |
| 3 | Our resort this year is in the Catalan region , with historic old towns contrasting with modern holiday resorts all set against the picturesque backdrop of the snow-capped Pyrenees . |
| 4 | The conference will be based in the Hotel Loew 's le Concorde , and will branch out into twelve locations in the historic Old City of Quebec . |
| 5 | There is plenty to do on the beautifully wide soft sandy beach and in the historic old town . |
| 6 | In the bar , where the staff gently chided the occasional American for sacrilegiously ordering ‘ a Bushmills with Coke ’ , the hi-tech which accompanies the modern golf tournament contrasted quaintly with the club 's superb gallery of historic old golfing photographs and prints . |
| 7 | Three men were later charged with attempted theft at the historic Old Customs House in Hartlepool , Cleveland . |
| 8 | He is a grisly old dog , but I like him , despite his shakes , nervous tics and watery eye . |
| 9 | A toothless old man from Baku , his double-breasted jacket beribboned with the medals of two world wars , looked dazed . |
| 10 | The toothless old mare only turned her head and gave Granny what seemed like a horsey laugh too . |
| 11 | Outside the all-purpose store , bar and scrubbing-brush shop was a line of toothless old men on a bench . |
| 12 | At Alcala 's adult education centre , one toothless old woman in slippers sang her a flamenco lament about a lovely but strong-headed girl from the next village who was stabbed seven times by her jealous husband . |
| 13 | " You ask me , it 's a living scandal , " a toothless old woman was saying . |
| 14 | After a while a toothless old woman peered nervously round the door and smiled . |
| 15 | And much though I appreciate your relentless exhumation of the world 's injustices month by month , I find myself hankering after the wacky old days . |
| 16 | The mathematics were simple : £10,000 would enable them to fatten up their piglets , sell them off in the autumn , clear their overdraft and continue preserving all the surviving Old Spot bloodlines . |
| 17 | The town was believed to have been founded in 1163 though most of the surviving old buildings date from the 16th. and 17th. centuries . |
| 18 | To kill off the prebendary , a reverend old man whose one hundredth birthday was going to be celebrated on the next Sunday , the second Sunday after Trinity , at St Andrew 's Church and just about everywhere else in Oxford … |
| 19 | She heard it from that dry old stick , Simpson . |
| 20 | An apparently dry old stick , secure in the fraternity of the common room , and content with the comradeship of his brother , Lewis is approaching 60 when he learns to love a woman . |
| 21 | He paused , gave each of them a solemn look across his spectacles and then went on even more deliberately , in his dry old voice . |
| 22 | Stop pretending to be a dry old biscuit . |
| 23 | But , just as many writers have taken Virginia Woolf as an mandate to waffle in subjective , near-incoherent mode about matters domestic without a sliver of her context , variety of perspective , real innovation and sheer writing genius , so many fey sprites are still dicking around with fairy stories , dry old myths and ( oh dear , oh dear ) the tale . |
| 24 | One feels constantly sorry for this randy but unsatisfied old man ( Cynthia Payne 's Streatham ménage was made for people like him ) who had taken sleeping tablets every night for decades and toyed frequently with suicide . |
| 25 | Just a strange old computer ! ’ |
| 26 | Have met strange old friend — just going round to Antonescu 's Clinic with him . |
| 27 | So he allowed the strange old Englishwoman to play her game of gaoler . |
| 28 | The research has also revealed a ghostly army which marches through the village , and a strange old system of farming … based on thirteen wooden balls in a sack |
| 29 | ‘ A strange old life . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In today 's strange old world we have to face up to many unusual things . ’ |