Example sentences of "old and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks quite old and rather valuable . |
| 2 | There is another rule , equally old and equally well-established — that you can not make a mere witness a party in order to get discovery from him ’ . |
| 3 | The wall opposite the sink and the window was covered with an oak dresser , very old and probably valuable , if it had been possible to remove it from the wall without its collapse , and the original row of bells still hung over the door each with its Gothic script ; drawing room , dining room , study , nursery . |
| 4 | He was a long-haired tabby she had found in the kitchen garden , old and nearly dead from starvation . |
| 5 | There are 21.7 million men in the UK over 15 years old and over two thirds of them wet shave . |
| 6 | Deciding on quantities of food can be difficult but following the old and well tried method of restricting the quantity to an amount which will be snapped up in a couple of minutes works very well . |
| 7 | Another borrowing from mainstream is the courtroom scene at the centre of the film , which is carried by a virtuoso cameo from Marlon Brando as a wheezy , old and vastly corpulent liberal lawyer . |
| 8 | In 20 minutes by air-conditioned car or coach , you will be in an old and vastly different world . |
| 9 | She remembered how Adam , seven years old and already stronger-willed than anyone could cope with , had furiously affirmed that Jake would come back . |
| 10 | To Constance 's delight , there in the corner by the fireplace was a watercolour of a woman wearing the dress , and she was amazed by the similarity between her friend and the woman in the picture — they shared the same strongly determined mouth — even though Miss Hatherby was old and not pretty like the Honourable Miss Trevelyan , whose brown eyes possessed amazing richness and beauty . |
| 11 | One means of enhancing the appearance of your home , and at the same time greatly improving security , is to replace old and badly fitting softwood framed windows with upvc or hardwood double glazed units . |
| 12 | Find us a grave , they had instructed , Neglected , about ten to twelve years old and completely anonymous . |
| 13 | Many patients , especially the old and economically weak , are already malnourished when they go into hospital . |
| 14 | Gary Martin from Tewksbury is three years old and profoundly deaf . |
| 15 | Gorfang has subjugated most of the local Orc tribes but his neighbours are the Night Goblins of Karak Eight Peaks whose leader is the old and infamously cunning Skarsnik . |
| 16 | A COMMUNITY campaigner claims a loophole in the law is causing a ‘ scandalous abuse ’ of the old and mentally ill . |
| 17 | " Englishing " involves the attempt to represent in English the content of a source poem , with a possible equivalence of some salient stylisitic features , but at the same time to relocate the work in the environment of English ( or Anglo-American ) culture and poetic tradition , with the intention , perhaps , of creating something at once old and quite new , faithful to the past yet relevant to the present . |
| 18 | With the destruction of state socialism in Hungary , the old and relatively comfortable set-up in which officially approved writers could have access to funds , however limited , via the Writers ' Union , will come to an end , since the Union itself will no longer have any official funding . |
| 19 | Mrs Clamp is very old and extremely small . |
| 20 | Worst of all are the Czech Republic and Slovakia , where 80 per cent of pine trees under 60 years old and almost 50 per cent of oak trees have been damaged by air pollution . |
| 21 | The Discus are about 15 months old and about four to five inches long . |
| 22 | Now eighty-seven years old and recently widowed , Mrs Higby remained in Cleveland . |
| 23 | Moreover you think , as does the justiciar himself , in terms of England , and like him you see no advantage in clinging to old and now artificial connections with territories on the mainland of France . |
| 24 | The other three looked at her as though she had spoken in an old and now unknown language . |
| 25 | Next came Mrs. Sutton 's shop — very old and very small — a two storey building with a roof of lovely weathered tiles . |
| 26 | She was very old and very deaf . |
| 27 | The Wallace Line commemorates his observation that a zoographical division slices the Indonesian archipelago in half , running down between Celebes and Borneo , Bali and Lombok , and thinly separates very old and very new life-forms . |
| 28 | Quite near were some very old and very decrepit buildings occupied by Talbots , Wholesale Chemists and Druggists . |
| 29 | It was very old and very dirty due to the dust and sand on the road . |
| 30 | Lavender Cottage is 400 years old and very picturesque . |