Example sentences of "been a [adj] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been a long old year . |
| 2 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |
| 3 | Well it must have been a tough old crab because this did n't work either . |
| 4 | Er that 's been a hard old grind though , I can tell you . |
| 5 | From then on it had been a funny old kind of a day . |
| 6 | But then , yesterday had been a funny old day , clouded as it was by the memory of Steve Blower 's traumatic and tragic death and the image of Jack comforting his parents . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's been a funny old job , ’ said Denise , and blew her nose . |
| 8 | It had been a fair old fitness test . |