Sentence examples for an old mate from inspiring English sources

Nancy's an old mate - we go back 20 years.

By the time I'd tracked down an old mate, a doctor, who was potentially willing to help, Dad had died.

I love Greg, he's an old mate and I've worked with him since he was a baby researcher at London Weekend, but your reputation is all you have.

The crowd are relaxed; the small gig feels like a house concert and Barnett is greeted like an old mate just returned from travelling.

He had clearly believed that the Premier League's new chairman, the investment banker Anthony Fry, whom Dyke described as "an old mate", would accept the FA invitation to engage with commitment to the process.

He seemed shy, but this made him (certainly to me, a once cripplingly nervous performer) far more relatable than any "confident" comedian who chats to audiences with the unfettered graces of an old mate.

It also helps to get an older mate to act as a 'booking agent' for you, who can negotiate fees and basically do the dirty work of asking for money, as I know for many new and young DJs you feel like a liability to be asking for a fee, but then again, you are the one performing your art for them.

"Is he a Queenslander?" "Old mate has probably had a few too many drinks, got a bit of courage up and his mates were probably into him," the Queensland forward Sam Thaiday said.

It was the first time that the crew, which also included a 47-year-old deckhand and a 23-year old mate who began working at the ferry this year, had worked together, officials said.

Charlie Fox, a struggling producer, comes to his old mate Bobby Gould, a newly elevated studio boss, with a surefire commercial package: a prison movie combining "action, blood, a social theme".

Then, in early September, Bush decided to drop in on the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group to give his old mate an electoral boost.