Example sentences of "the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old woman 's son was one of the many prisoners who have subsequently died in the prison . |
| 2 | Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy , the symbol of the modern idea . |
| 3 | Her argument was that the subjects of the old master paintings could be disregarded by a painter who wished to find lessons for the present in the artistic practice of the past . |
| 4 | Like Apollinaire , they saw a rift between the old century and the new . |
| 5 | Vision I call not only optical , but also spiritual realization ; for instance , historical vision issuing from the old sources . ’ |
| 6 | This is not true in Philadelphia , where a new city decisively overwhelms the old . |
| 7 | ’ Pilinski had to redraw his copy of the old and valuable original because he could not paste the original on his block and engrave through it . |
| 8 | The ancient , weathered oak is the main motif , a theme as much used and loved by the Romantic poets and painters as the old willow tree . |
| 9 | The old man is sitting under a tree , and a young girl is near him ; I think he is blind — at least , he ought to be . |
| 10 | The old man and the girl are listening attentively . |
| 11 | This picture goes straight to my heart ; I should like to lean against that tree between the old man and the girl and listen while the youth played . |
| 12 | That was how the words occurred in the old Latin poem . |
| 13 | His parents did not get on and parted during the war , which put an end to the old hierarchic world of Amnersfield , where you were not to look at your masters when they came up the drive , but to hoe on regardless . |
| 14 | The quoted words point back to the privileged second existence which poetry had once promised Jaromil , and they point ahead : the old meaning has been reversed , with the claim that real life resides in a revolutionary solidarity . |
| 15 | But matters are mended with the arrival of the crates — antiques that epitomised an antique land , brief monuments to the old Angola . |
| 16 | But the novels were soon to exhibit an interest in misogyny , and to see a connection between ‘ the old hoo-ha ’ and ‘ the old last end ’ — expressions used by Ormerod and Standish respectively , in Take a girl like you , for sexual intercourse and death . |
| 17 | But the novels were soon to exhibit an interest in misogyny , and to see a connection between ‘ the old hoo-ha ’ and ‘ the old last end ’ — expressions used by Ormerod and Standish respectively , in Take a girl like you , for sexual intercourse and death . |
| 18 | This particular girl , a model , is putting Patrick in his place by going on about cars : ‘ Most of my friends have them on the firm , ’ she said , with the sort of lift of the old proud head that he could hardly believe had not accompanied a limiting judgment on Villiers de l'Isle Adam . ’ |
| 19 | In Difficulties with girls there are passages which recall that lift of the old proud head . |
| 20 | Readers of The Old Devils have asked : are its Welsh Welsh ? |
| 21 | Heirs to the freedoms which , on the threshold of the Sixties , Take a girl like you may be thought to have assisted in inaugurating , but which it also contrived to criticise , young people now seem to feel that the old Patrick belonged to a sexist work , and they may well feel that the old Adam has surfaced again in the new Patrick . |
| 22 | Heirs to the freedoms which , on the threshold of the Sixties , Take a girl like you may be thought to have assisted in inaugurating , but which it also contrived to criticise , young people now seem to feel that the old Patrick belonged to a sexist work , and they may well feel that the old Adam has surfaced again in the new Patrick . |
| 23 | The difference yields a political meaning , in other words , and it would also appear to relate to the old theory of the difference between an author who tells and an author who shows , and who employs a medley of voices in order to do so . |
| 24 | When he does not accept the religion revealed in the Old Testament . |
| 25 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 26 | It takes its structure from a set of correspondences between elements and persons , and the old definition of temperament as a mixture of qualities is present to the reader 's mind — the same definition that permits us to think of Faussone as a part of Levi , or as his alter ego . |
| 27 | I kept walking , past the old mill , right up around the bend to where the council property starts , and I thought , oh , shit , council houses . |
| 28 | Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ . |
| 29 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 30 | From its domination by the old ascendancy , the Orange order in particular came to embrace protestants from all classes and churches . |