Example sentences of "[verb] the young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight that met the young housewife 's eyes was appalling . |
| 2 | He never met the young air force crew , never even saw them , yet he has never forgotten them either . |
| 3 | She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father . |
| 4 | It was in the rose gardens that Annie McCafferty met the young ex-boxer one fine , crisp morning when the buds were appearing and trees were coming into leaf . |
| 5 | Michael Fallon ( Con ) and Peter Bergg ( Lib Dem ) yesterday met the young men who will be arguing their policies at the school hustings . |
| 6 | Each of the 300 occupied a slightly different ecological niche : some living among the rocks inshore ; some in the depths ; all ( as many cichlids do ) holding their developing young in their mouths for protection ( ‘ mouth breeders ’ ) ; and some highly specialized types earning a living by sucking the young ones out of the mouths of brooding mothers . |
| 7 | She was too plain , and too shy , to bring out into society ; but that , as Dinah told herself , was no reason for allowing the young woman to idle her days away in the Hampstead house . |
| 8 | She was a treacherous bitch who tried to kill the young king , but that 's another story . |
| 9 | Additionally , a more flexible attitude by social services to enable the young person without fully satisfactory living arrangements to go to , to stay on as long as necessary at the home , would be preferable to sticking rigidly to a somewhat arbitrary age cut-off time . |
| 10 | When I put down the receiver I heard Geoff Tulloch 's voice out in the main office , impressing the young women with his irrepressible personality . |
| 11 | His wife , Emmanuelle Seigner ( above ) , plays the young dancer Mimi who has a bizarre relationship with middle-aged American writer Oscar ( Peter Coyote ) . |
| 12 | Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves . |
| 13 | The bus went out of control in the centre of Oxford , crossed a pedestrian island and pinned the young woman , under the wheel . |
| 14 | I envy her her happiness — she ca n't help it shining out of her but I 'm also bitter against her for saddling me with this lot , and for changing-me from what I was : she made the young girl into a woman before her time and a bitter one at that . |
| 15 | This time they killed Charlie 's father , which was a silly mistake because it only made the young fool sign up to fight the lot of them on his own . |
| 16 | Many vignerons , however , will wait until the fourth or fifth year to avoid over-straining the young vines , which in turn will ensure a longer and more productive life . |
| 17 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 18 | A post mortem revealed the young officer died from carbon monoxide poisoning and the coroner yesterday returned a verdict that Cpl Turnpenny took his own life . |
| 19 | What influences the young child is not so much what is said or meant by the adult 's question . |
| 20 | Every woman in the church was waiting to see the young man 's face , and he knew it . |
| 21 | But most of all eagles wanted to see the young take flight , and venture away from their parents and explore the world where they , like the adults , must learn to survive the winter . |
| 22 | Years ago when I used to see the young masters going off to their boarding schools … you too , I used to envy you all . |
| 23 | A military career had fascinated the young Makarenko , though he disliked it and had to be discharged on account of poor eyesight . |
| 24 | I then took Maxine 's mind off what had happened by asking her to describe again the scenery in the area of the canal and the painted barges and sturdy horses which had so fascinated the young boy . |
| 25 | When they land the young ones break lanes and stream off down the corridor , hustling for position . |
| 26 | Silver , a schoolmate of Hockney at Bradford grammar , sold the young artist 's paintings through the chain of clothes shops he established in the North after taking his A levels . |
| 27 | Nor , in the long hours of her sleeping , when he and Diniz shared the same room , did he say more than he thought might reassure the young Portuguese . |
| 28 | Richard was the King 's brother ; according to Henry 's mood and caprice that might make the young man either indispensable or unthinkable , but even for de Burgh it made it difficult to disparage his stewardship openly . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you mind if I sit down ? ’ asked the young man in effete , accented English . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's very bad , is it ? ’ her mother asked the young man in a worried voice . |