Example sentences of "young [noun] who [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ .
2 Among the casualties of Caedwalla 's attack on Wight were Arwald , king of the island , and his two young brothers who escaped to the opposite mainland where they were captured and put to death after Caedwalla had first allowed them to receive baptism .
3 All the young contenders who played in the victory over Oxfordshire are given another chance to prove themselves .
4 The glam young directors who surfaced in the 1980s are already part of the scenery .
5 Hordes of others followed on foot ; retainers gaudy in the livery of great lords , and the bright French silks of young gallants who swarmed into the city like butterflies under the warm sun and blue skies .
6 He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair .
7 Dean , meanwhile , made Rebel Without a Cause , an exploitive title for a young actor who kicked against the pricks .
8 Yet another story tells of a young ostler who worked at the inn .
9 The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs .
10 She was pretty , like all the other young things who came to the company .
11 A group of former Young Farmers who appeared in the film came together for a lunchtime drink to remember the making of the film and to talk over old times .
12 Now , I must confess I had n't seen much of Mr Wogan before I met him because , when I got my television set at Low Birk Hatt , Richard Megstone , the nice young gentleman who looked after the Youth Hostel in Baldersdale and kindly took care of my electrical things , said I had a choice — either BBC1 or Channel 4 .
13 The discovery also has implications for around 25 thousand children and young people who suffer from the inherited disease cystic fibrosis .
14 Many of the young people who came onto the streets of Bucharest on 21 December 1989 , to protest against the Father of the Nation faced a bleak future of under-employment in a poorly planned industry .
15 This was blamed by many on the factory system and the alleged promiscuity it bred in women , but this ignored the fact that the highest percentage of young people who married between the ages of 15 and 20 was in Durham , where women did not work .
16 Of the 200,000 young people who responded to The Early Times Survey , 53pc thought Britain no longer needed a monarchy .
17 The reviewer grudgingly found amusement in the tale of a pub-crawling young bridegroom who strolled into the bar while his wife was donning the mauve chiffon nightgown that was to excite him .
18 It was Justine , the young woman who looked after the children and who was like a sister to us .
19 A sense of alarm prompted her to knock again , more loudly , and this time the door was thrust open by an elegant though plainly dressed young woman who winced at the sound of breaking glass , coming from somewhere behind her .
20 During the early years of the century the influence of Cézanne had become increasingly pronounced among the progressive young painters who showed at the Salon des Indépendants , and after its creation in 1903 , the Salon d'Automne .
21 one thinks of bread , cheese , butter , tea and coffee from City firms ; car loads of books from Roseburn ; a pressure cooker from a member moved by the despairing note in one of our appeals ; a whole set of Carlyles 's works , which was eventually sold to the new Carlyle library in Haddington ; fascinating nautical ephemera from the Manse ; a huge pile of oil paintings of Edinburgh from a young artist who works at the National Gallery ; even geological specimens and polished stones from a lady in our Abbeyfield House ; and of course our ‘ stock in trade ’ , those exciting grocer 's boxes of ‘ mixed ’ books .
22 The third example is a young man who falls into the rare category of those who pose a serious threat to public safety , a threat which in some instances exists for only weeks or months , although occasionally a person may remain potentially dangerous for some years .
23 Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car .
24 ‘ Right here in Clonmacnoise , ’ the blonde ticket girl replied , and sent for a tall young man who worked in the grounds to show me her grave .
25 er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times
26 Disciplined in ritual dance from an early age , there are now several young Balinese who rank amongst the world 's top competitive surfers .
27 Harsher penalties in particular could help foster a tough , ‘ macho ’ criminal self-image in the young men who predominate in the criminal statistics .
28 I remember a man with a family of several young children who worked at the plant saying at one of the first local public meetings I addressed that it would certainly change his mind about nuclear power if the link with leukaemia was substantiated .
29 Rupert went over in his mind the unattached women he knew , beginning with Esther Clovis , the formidable secretary of the Foresight Research Centre , and ending with a pretty young typist who worked in the department of the University where he lectured .
30 ‘ I think I 'll go across and have a chat with that young fallow who came in the other day , ’ Phil said in a conversational tone to no one in particular and rushed out to Sister Cooney 's office .
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