1.  He was such a dear old thing, although she had heard a rumour about him and Sylvia.

2.  I felt I was doing the same old thing week after week, month after month.

3.  Oh, just wear any old thing.

4.  Running around in circles and seeing the same old thing defeats half the purpose.

5.  That means there is all the more reason to oppose the willed destruction of old things.

6.  Every week, same old thing.

7.  There is coming out with the same old thing again.

8.  But when she was about six weeks old things got a bit more serious.

9.  What a miserable old thing!

10.  Look at that old thing squat on the roof.