Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inquest has opened on a young girl , who it 's alleged was murdered by her father . |
| 2 | When in Auckland A cultural misunderstanding has led to a young Cook Islander being fined £75 by a New Zealand judge for squeezing the buttocks of two white women in a Wellington street . |
| 3 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 4 | ‘ E asked me to describe yer , which I did , thinkin' maybe 'e was goin' to tell yer you 'd come into some money , but 'e said you 'd taken in a young woman , that the pair of you 'ad nicked 'is wallet an' made off with it . |
| 5 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 6 | Martin Browne himself believed that Eliot was too ready to rely upon outworn social and theatrical conventions , but suggested that they " reflect an unconscious reversion to the drama that Eliot must have seen as a young theatregoer before 1914 " . |
| 7 | It is a term which Carver would have used as a young man to dissociate himself and his peers from others , and its use here encourages the reader to share Carver 's memories of his own surprise and , perhaps , disappointment at Gardner 's appearance . |
| 8 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 9 | He mentioned the insults his father had received from a young man near Trantridge who had a blind mother . |
| 10 | This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself . |
| 11 | A record company spokesman said : ‘ The American public had voted for a younger Elvis to grace their postage stamps and we took the hint . ’ |
| 12 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 13 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 14 | Juan had moved as a young man to La Blanquilla , the Venezuelan island furthest from the mainland . |
| 15 | It is perhaps as well to remember at the outset that the main injury in this particular case was a hip injury which , if it had occurred to a younger man , would have produced an arthrodesis operation . |
| 16 | Here he had slept as a young boy and until his marriage . |
| 17 | Even that great opponent of the industrial system of the nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle ( 1795–1881 ) failed to relate his criticisms to the Christian doctrine that he had abandoned as a young man . |
| 18 | With those who reached him emotionally he recreated the rejections he had experienced as a young child . |
| 19 | She reminded him of someone he had known as a young man . |
| 20 | Mr John Moore , then Social Security Secretary , had spoken of a young woman in his constituency who obtained special benefit and a council flat by becoming pregnant . |
| 21 | Was this where he had trained as a young man ? |
| 22 | In the Franco-Prussian War in which de Castelnau had fought as a young officer he could recall all too vividly how , once it had started retreating , the French Army had never ceased until it was rounded up piecemeal . |
| 23 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 24 | He studied the cruel falcon face framed by the iron-grey hair , watching those slightly slanted eyes , one half-closed — a mannerism Edward had acquired as a young man . |
| 25 | ‘ The energy and excitement that music videos have caused in a young audience has to be consumated into musical film . ’ |