Example sentences of "[was/were] a young [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But like , when you were a young boy growing up would the kelp workers could they make as much money . |
| 2 | When you when you were a young boy I was gon na ask get off the island manage to get |
| 3 | ‘ I wish I were a young girl again , wild and free , out on the moors with Heathcliff ! |
| 4 | What was society i in Orkney just before you left , you said you were a young girl and you left about nineteen nineteen . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you often see Bernhardt when you were a young man , Pop ? ’ she asked . |
| 6 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 7 | As I said , if I were a young man , I should emigrate . ’ |
| 8 | He lent prestige to the young veterinary profession by telling Moorcroft that he would , if he were a young man , follow a veterinary career himself . |
| 9 | ‘ There were a young man at the door after church , ’ Ellen said . |
| 10 | — You were a young man . |
| 11 | Tell me about transport through Caldmore when you were a young man . |
| 12 | And you were a young lad when she told you this ? |
| 13 | When you were a young lad . |
| 14 | Where did young people used to gather and when , meet when you were a young lad ? |
| 15 | This was when you were a young lad ? |
| 16 | She says she was devastated — they were a young family with everything to look forward to and it could all have been taken away from them . |
| 17 | STEERINA : A car you used to make when you were a young fella out of old prams and burnt out helicopters . |
| 18 | But by golly I 'm living as though I were a young woman . |
| 19 | The only other people on the terrace were a young soldier with a handsome girl in a brown djellebah . |
| 20 | I was a young engineer and they were a young band , and we were all finding our way . |
| 21 | Trailing some years behind were a younger brother and sister . |
| 22 | One was a young detective-constable , seconded from the Bromley district , who noticed Nona . |
| 23 | His replacement was recruited from a major national hotel group and was a young hotel and catering graduate with five year 's post-qualification experience . |
| 24 | The shocking discovery prompted a massive police operation clearly remembered by a retired policeman who was a young constable on duty in Spennymoor on the night of the slaying . |
| 25 | I have got erm a crazy mixed up erm if you like , combination ; erm one who has a precarious reputation for doing some strange things on the track , Andrea , and it 's ironical really because erm when at the end of erm my racing days , which seventy eight , seventy nine with the erm Malborough team , erm Andrea was a young kid coming through . |
| 26 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 27 | An old bugger I was , well I was a young bugger actually then , yeah , yeah . |
| 28 | The maid was a young country girl , more acceptable as a model , and Modi painted her as ‘ The Girl With Red Hands ’ . |
| 29 | When he was a young fighter , a doctor had to chase him around a desk to give him a shot , and chaotic mobility to him is at least as important as breathing . |
| 30 | I joined some time in the late thirties when I was a young member of the Foreign Office . ’ |