Example sentences of "[vb past] been a young " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd first qualified in forensic medicine he 'd been a young sergeant . |
| 2 | She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder . |
| 3 | Most recently , the discovery that the late Paul de Man , the doyen of American deconstructionists , had been a young collaborationist journalist in Nazi-occupied Belgium has made the issue painfully acute in the United States . |
| 4 | Teversham 's terms for pretty women had been taken wholesale from his father who had been a young airman in World War II . |
| 5 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 6 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 7 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 8 | If he had been a young , attractive gentleman , I would have been too shy to offer help , but as he was not handsome , and even quite rough , I felt I wanted to help him . |
| 9 | If you had been a young person at the beginning of this century , you may have been in ‘ in service ’ , working as a maid or servant for a wealthy family . |
| 10 | Dauntless had been a young boy then , newly recruited into the order and eager to prove himself worthy . |
| 11 | It had been long since he had asked her mother to share his bed , and for some time now his favourite had been a young Khabiri concubine , a month younger than she was herself . |
| 12 | He had been a young man , quite personable until someone slashed his throat . |
| 13 | I knew an empty beer keg when I was tied to one , and the last time I 'd seen that particular one there had been a young punk called Emma sitting on it nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances . |