Example sentences of "[that] the young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because of a rebellion that the young Boniface had been sent as Ine 's envoy to the archbishop of Canterbury c . |
| 2 | Corbett caught phrases , ‘ See from Heaven the Judge descendeth ’ and , turning to look at the coffin , vowed that the young man awaiting burial would not have to wait until Judgement Day for justice . |
| 3 | ‘ She learned that the vessel had come , and was glad , for she said that the young man would speak for her . |
| 4 | The shock was so great that the young man catapulted forward , straight through the glass panel in the front door and right into the street outside . |
| 5 | Hearing that the young man was the only son of a gentleman of wealth , the money-lender begged of him never to hesitate in coming to him again whenever he stood in need of a ‘ friend ’ . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , I firmly believe that the young man concerned regarded it as the means to an end — I leave that to your imaginations — and not in any way binding . |
| 7 | The odds are that the young man would not have laid a finger on her , but what if … ? |
| 8 | In view of what occurred later , one may believe that the young man was intoxicated . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that the young man was Mark himself . |
| 10 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 11 | He could tell that the young man was near to coming , but would not dare until Vashinov allowed him to . |
| 12 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 13 | She had been more than a little taken aback by his unexpected appearance in the area and also somewhat intrigued , though she had heard from one of the carmen who frequented the cafe that the young man had recently married . |
| 14 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 15 | It was through the agency of the chansons that the young man might acquire a sense of honour and a sense of shame . |
| 16 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 17 | He had told Fahfakhs that the young man wanted to marry Claudia , and perhaps he thought that the district officer was laughing at him and treating him with contempt . |
| 18 | Jenjin spoke in Rostov 's ear and said that the young man 's name was Nogai , a grandson of the Kha-Khan . |
| 19 | ‘ If I read you rightly , ’ said Radulfus , having searched Cadfael 's face , and found it in very grave earnest , ‘ you are saying that the young man was attacked in mistake for a Benedictine brother . ’ |
| 20 | Harry 's employer , Major Spofforth , was himself a golfer ; he recognized that the young man had skill , and encouraged him to persevere with the game . |
| 21 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |
| 22 | Certain it was that the young man had died at Falkland palace in Fife . |
| 23 | For instance , erm when he speaks the fact that the young man was cut off in his prime , perhaps the most famous passage of the lot ‘ Alas what boots it with incessant care to tend the homely slighted shepherd 's trade and strictly meditate the thankless muse . |
| 24 | Chomsky 's claim that the young child is exposed to degenerate samples of language which distort the relationship between surface forms and meanings has been challenged by a considerable amount of recent research . |
| 25 | The importance of this technique is that the young child experiences stimulation of the normal feeding and sucking patterns which prevents reluctance to eat once the operation is completed and the child has recovered . |
| 26 | Societal expectations are changing in Britain and the fat toddler is no longer looked on with affection , but some cultural minority groups still feel that the young child should be fed and pampered . |
| 27 | But what Donaldson points out is that the young child 's construal of the task is different from that of adults or older children . |
| 28 | We must assume that the young child 's acquisition of language comes about in the context of expanding experience , of expanding possible interpretations of forms like here and now in different contexts of situation , contexts which come to be recognised , and stored as types . |
| 29 | It may have been during his time at Paris that the young Lothar , perhaps in the company of these two and other students , visited the shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury . |
| 30 | That the young Prince , or Gaveston , or both , not only murdered hapless ladies in convents but even the Lord 's anointed ? |