Example sentences of "old [noun] have [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Minch had it and you seem to have it as well , Creggan . |
| 2 | To some feminists , such as Andrea Dworkin , pornography is a major cause of women 's oppression ; it is violence against women or , as the old slogan has it , ‘ porn is the theory , rape is the practice . ’ |
| 3 | He soon realised that the only relevant future is , as the old cliche has it , the next game . |
| 4 | I do not pretend that this hairy example will stand up to intensive and searching cross-cultural scrutiny , since the elements in the contrasted pairs weigh slightly differently in different cultures ; indeed , as with most linked social phenomena , one could find some cases of complete reversals ( or in Lévi-Straussian terminology , ‘ transformations ’ ) in which , as the old phrase has it , the extremes meet . |
| 5 | And the information-based business will use more and more smaller self-governing units , assigning them tasks tidy enough for ‘ a good man to get his arms around , ’ as the old phrase has it . |
| 6 | At these times with , ‘ just me and my radio ’ , as the old song has it , I developed a close , though one-sided relationship with Jimmy Young . |
| 7 | ‘ That old Plumpton has them in the baths — an hour , private-like , once a week . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ replied Mum , ‘ the stupid old man had it in his coat pocket ! ’ |
| 9 | It took root in various places round the town — Terryhoogan ( or Ballinabeck , near Tandragee ) in 1756 , Clonmain in 1762 , Grange in 1764 , Kilmoriarty ( or Kilmararty , as the old form had it ) in 1767 , Derryanville before 1784 ( ‘ a little village out of all road , surrounded by bogs … thus God has His secret ones , in a little corner of the land … some of the liveliest Christians in the kingdom ’ ) . |
| 10 | poor old chap have it that 's why . |
| 11 | Johnny old pal have you got eleven P ? |
| 12 | Sinead old pal have you got eleven P ? |
| 13 | The old cliché has it that in hard times pop culture goes soft , entertainment becomes more trivial , more ‘ escapist ’ . |