Example sentences of "of a young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also the possibility of a young England tour of Jamaica , which the All England Netball Association hope will give the young players some experience of the Caribbean game before the world tournament . |
| 2 | It tells of a young offenders institution where five inmates have made a pact that if one commits suicide the other four can be freed ‘ for psychological reasons ’ . |
| 3 | She was also something of a femme fatale , with the looks of a young Marlene Dietrich , and a blasé manner to match . |
| 4 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 5 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 6 | Very occasionally his path crossed that of a couple walking home or a group of a young friends going up to the centre , and then the brief appraising glances they gave him left Zen feeling obscurely ill at ease , underlining as they did his lack of purpose or direction . |
| 7 | Everybody , including the present Soviet editor , talks about Stavrogin 's forcing or rape of a young girl . |
| 8 | Greig explores the way in which people choose to remember the past through the reactions of the boy 's sister ( her angry rejection ) , the boy 's lover ( her confused sadness ) , and the impartial perspective of a young girl 's view from 1989 . |
| 9 | Jeanne herself had posed for the model of the drawing of a young girl , her hands covering one breast , a triangle of pubic hair prominent . |
| 10 | ‘ The coroner 's court has instructed me to obtain a photograph of a young girl … who will never wake up again . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The body of a young girl — around twelve years old — turned up in an alley in the City . |
| 12 | But he had not even caught a glimpse of a young girl . |
| 13 | On closer inspection , it proved to be the photograph of a young girl of seven or eight years . |
| 14 | I HAVE the body of a young girl . |
| 15 | Labour MP Clive Soley on the libel laws I HAVE the body of a young girl . |
| 16 | A pregnant woman is very obviously a different shape from her non-pregnant sister , and the beauty of a young girl has quite another quality from that of a mature woman . |
| 17 | What was beautiful about the death of a young girl , leaving a motherless child ? |
| 18 | The figure , that of a young girl dressed in a white dress , appeared to stumble and fall and then , as he drew nearer , she rose to her feet and staggered towards the signal box steps . |
| 19 | If it had n't been for the proximity of the tall dour houses and the unexpected kindness of a young girl , Craig would have been recaptured at once . |
| 20 | A few months later came the California Motion Picture Corporation 's Salvation Nell , in which we follow the adventures of a young girl from the New York tenements , where her drunken father kills her mother and where all her associates are drunks or wasters , through to happiness in the arms of a Salvation Army major . |
| 21 | Other works in the sale include a Vlaminck ‘ Still life ’ of 1907 , a Renoir portrait of a young girl , still lifes by Matisse and Bonnard , two landscapes and a still life by de Staël and works on paper by Matisse , Moore , Dufy , Braque , Rouault and Vuillard . |
| 22 | Frye , in The Politics of Reality ( 1983 ) , uses the situation of a young girl sold into sexual slavery and then systematically brutalised and brainwashed into a life of service to her captors as an analogy for the situation of all women . |
| 23 | The crowd of villagers seemed to be standing round a patch of earth from which the thin , naked arms of a young girl were desperately waving as the screams continued . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It tells the story of the sudden death of a young girl who was a liar . |
| 26 | It is the head of a young girl . |
| 27 | The night was perfect , like the velvet worn about the neck of a young girl . |
| 28 | However , it is noteworthy that even as late as the nineteenth century , the courts were still discussing whether , in the case of a young girl , there was penetration sufficient to constitute rape where the hymen remained intact . |
| 29 | Possibly even later , two burials have been recorded from Coulter 's Garage just outside the south side of the defences ; these may be contemporary with the interment of a young girl who had been beheaded and ten infant burials in the garden of Lloyds Bank . |
| 30 | She laughed , and it was the laugh still of a young girl . |