Example sentences of "[noun sg] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember sneaking from school to watch old Titford 's funeral procession and standing under the chestnut trees and thinking how beautiful the singing in church sounded . |
| 2 | yeah , and he went up the plot and he come back and he said cor you can have plenty old erm cold sheds that he could have got , I said what do you really think , I played a free hand , you mean mum and dad 's hand |
| 3 | The game was nearly an hour old before Woods had to make a worthwhile save — from Keane — then Marriott brought off a superb one-handed save to deny Hirst another goal . |
| 4 | Oh , the mandarin old gold . |
| 5 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 6 | Of course old man Tate died years ago . |
| 7 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 8 | 2nd XI : Westminster Park 67 ICI 68–4 ; Hale 173–7 dec Old Parkonians 39–9 ; Runcorn 121–8 Daten 109–5 ; Shell 161 British Alcan 121 . |
| 9 | One was the absence of faction round an heir to the throne old enough to provide a focal point for political opposition , The only exception came in the last years of James III ; in 1488 , in the second and final crisis of his reign , his opponents could use his fifteen-year-old son , the future James IV , as their figurehead . |
| 10 | The kind old sun will know . |
| 11 | So while he could have given this kind old Cornish gentleman an eye-opening insight into the plans being made on the Continent of Europe to bring England back within Rome 's jurisdiction , he was content to let his host do most of the talking . |
| 12 | However , he wanted first to meet the kind old gentleman in London , who would help him . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't worry , my dear , ’ Fagin said , putting down the knife and becoming once again the kind old gentleman . |
| 14 | ‘ Those books belong to the kind old gentleman who took me into his home . |
| 15 | He wanted to find Mr Brownlow , the kind old man who had looked after him in London . |
| 16 | But now the kind old man had moved abroad , still believing Oliver was a lying thief , and he might hold this belief until the day he died . |
| 17 | While it says ‘ if anything might wake him now , the kind old sun will know ’ . |
| 18 | In the first stanza , these two lines are emphasising the feeling of depression with the word ‘ snow ’ and the nostalgic tone with the use of the phrase ‘ The kind old sun will know . ’ |
| 19 | the kind old sun will know |
| 20 | In the first , it is ‘ gentle ’ and the poet describes the ‘ kind old sun ’ as wise , while at the end he says ‘ fatuous sunbeams ’ — fatuous being ‘ silly ’ or ‘ imbecile ’ . |
| 21 | The kind old sun will know |
| 22 | It wo n't be a question of Skoda building old R5s and R18s . |
| 23 | Just about par for the course cherub old boy . |
| 24 | Pound called him " my little marsupial " , " yew old Wombat " and so on , while Eliot replied in kind to " Ezzumpo " , " Dear Doc " , " Rabbit My Rabbit " . |
| 25 | That 's saying that being a biker or a greaser or a punk is dirty — that 's a real stereotype old people believe about young people . |
| 26 | Glenda Grower gave Corbett Farraday the look old pros give when confronted by the naîvetés of fresh-faced amateurs . |
| 27 | yeah , you know quite hopeful so what I as I say what I 'm really looking for is I 've got a preference for older properties but you know try not to pin myself down to too much at the moment , I 've got about a hundred and thirty to spend so ideally I 'd like a cottage old style but I do need three bedrooms |
| 28 | He 's alright , I said , but he 's a bit old . |
| 29 | I think Francis Morgan feels I 'm a bit old for Angela — I 'm forty-three and she is twenty-nine — but he 's never brought himself to say so . |
| 30 | ‘ Could Beatrice perhaps be getting a bit old in herself , ’ I had suggested , ‘ or could it perhaps be something to do with the accident she had as a child ? ’ |