Example sentences of "young [noun sg] who [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dean , meanwhile , made Rebel Without a Cause , an exploitive title for a young actor who kicked against the pricks . |
| 3 | Yet another story tells of a young ostler who worked at the inn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was Justine , the young woman who looked after the children and who was like a sister to us . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | The loss of this old lady 's vote was cancelled out a few streets further on , by a young chap who came to the door and told me he was a soldier . |