Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a young " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosalind , disguised as a young man ( Ganymede ) speaks to Phoebe , who clearly considers her to be an attractive male . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , it should be pointed out that not every coffin-maker or funeral furnisher knew this and one could end up with the horrendous mismatch of an elderly widower being given a plate intended for a young girl . |
| 4 | We see him depicted as a young boy in Luke 2 , obedient to his parents , going up to the Temple and spending time with the learned men asking questions . |
| 5 | He was usually depicted as a young man with a Phrygian cap and short tunic , thrusting a sword into the neck of a bull and thus demonstrating his triumph over the forces of evil . |
| 6 | Particularly beautiful is the lunette of Christ as the Good Shepherd depicted as a young man seated with His sheep around Him . |
| 7 | This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself . |
| 8 | She had n't wept or clung to him , demanded to know what he felt about her , uttered those naive and sweetly foolish declarations of undying love expected of a young girl whose virginity had just been taken . |
| 9 | This short manuscript , which was only rediscovered in a private library at the turn of the century , spells out the sort of behaviour that was expected of a young Mughal gentleman in Delhi about 1650 . |
| 10 | He had a bit of a beak for a nose and in profile , especially when he was frowning and thoughtful , looked like a young , dreaming hawk . |
| 11 | Sometimes he felt like a middle-aged man trapped inside a young man 's body . |
| 12 | He had been attracted to a young lady who lived with her mother ; he called on them constantly , smiling all the time , but never saying what he was after ; with the inevitable result that the damsel got tired of her tortoise " , and gave her hand to a brisker suitor . |
| 13 | A train commuter , a middle-aged respectable type , was recently attacked by a young bully and , in self-defence , stabbed him with a swordstick . |
| 14 | Let me tell you a story : a prostitute was attacked by a young man in the back yard of a large block of flats in London . |
| 15 | I was entertained to an extremely competent description of the scene , future plans and prospects divulged by a young enthusiast from the home team . |
| 16 | It was occupied by a young couple in their early twenties . |
| 17 | It is newly occupied by a young couple . |
| 18 | We were finally approached by a young man who turned out to be the club 's diving instructor . |
| 19 | The tale of L'Esquiriel goes on to tell of how the girl is approached by a young man playing with his erect penis ; she asks him what he has there — a squirrel , is the answer ; does she want it ? — yes please , let me hold it ; not yet , put your hand on it carefully ; it 's hot ! — ah , it 's just got out of its nest — and so on , until , after further euphemisms and foreplay , we return to the blunt world of crude speech as the squirrel enters the girl 's con to seek from her stomach the nuts she ate the day before . |
| 20 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 21 | The supposed attraction of certain White women to Black men is again accentuated by a young , White , overtly racist male protagonist through the comment , ‘ You know what they say , they reckon that spades are special with the Janets ; that 's why they go for them ’ ; this is followed by raucous laughter from his fellow White workmates . |
| 22 | Giolitti lost power , and his government was pilloried by the socialists who whipped up public opinion in their newspaper , Avanti , edited by a young man with a future , Benito Mussolini . |
| 23 | Chandrasekhar had shown that the exclusion principle could not halt the collapse of a star more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit , but the problem of understanding what would happen to such a star , according to general relativity , was first solved by a young American , Robert Oppenheimer , in 1939 . |
| 24 | Unlike the Shetland version where the baby was rescued by a young lad who later married the lass he had saved from death , the Faroese story is one of heroism but sadness , where the mother climbed to the eyrie ( which no man had ever been able to do ) only to find that her baby was dead . |
| 25 | She has been rescued by a young castaway named Vicki . |
| 26 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Juan had moved as a young man to La Blanquilla , the Venezuelan island furthest from the mainland . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 " . |