Example sentences of "to a young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extremely public row about the denial of tenure to a young lecturer associated with the progressive party opened old wounds and inflicted new ones on this always thin-skinned community . |
| 2 | We should recognise , too , that the ability to think in highly conventional terms may be of the greatest importance to a young scientist in his work . |
| 3 | Offered the general secretaryship , he declined , preferring to stay with the union and ceding the number one post to a young leftist lawyer from Seville , Felipe González . |
| 4 | He greeted her calmly and as he turned the ignition key he said , ‘ I have to see to a young leopard and treat the hippo , who , they tell me , is a bit off colour . |
| 5 | When in Auckland A cultural misunderstanding has led to a young Cook Islander being fined £75 by a New Zealand judge for squeezing the buttocks of two white women in a Wellington street . |
| 6 | The greatest applause went to a young researcher who highlighted the poor career opportunities she faced . |
| 7 | A dunnock plays host to a young cuckoo . |
| 8 | Police are hunting a man who exposed himself to a young schoolgirl beneath the viaduct in North Road , Durham City on Thursday afternoon . |
| 9 | JEWKES : Why sir , I knew a bashful young lady of sweet sixteen , as madam may be , married to a young rascal with a … |
| 10 | A 16-year-old girl from Bermondsey , south London , was sent to a young persons ' institution for four months yesterday after being found guilty at Seymour Place juvenile court of causing grievous bodily harm to Francis Ruth Waite , 24 , daughter of Terry Waite , held hostage in Lebanon . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not going to do anything , Ari , ’ Quincx said , in a voice he hoped would be soothing to a young girl . |
| 12 | He turned and said something that Elisa could not quite catch to a young girl , unnoticed before , who had stationed herself by the door . |
| 13 | In an ensuing fight around Christmas time 1896 the police had swooped and arrested twenty-eight youths some of whom were found to be in possession of pistols , which was taken to link them to a young girl 's death — although this was some months later . |
| 14 | Delia Sutherland offered her hand to a young girl in an overall . |
| 15 | The fact that he found it less easy to talk about such things to a young girl did not mean he was less impassioned than she was . |
| 16 | Who was going to stop and talk to a young girl like me ? |
| 17 | Moreover , in the light of the Committee 's comment that consensual oral sex is extremely serious and more likely to be disturbing to a young girl than sexual intercourse , it would seem to follow that non-consensual oral sex is extremely serious and more likely to be disturbing than rape . |
| 18 | He was talking to a young girl with straight , fair hair and they were both very serious . |
| 19 | He was sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 20 | Paul Dart , 18 , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for four years when he admitted crimes including armed robbery . |
| 21 | Yesterday , Hill , of Gosport , Hants , who admitted manslaughter , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for 2½ years . |
| 22 | Let me quote from last Saturday 's Oxford Mail : ’ A teenager whose night of joyriding ended in the death of a lorry driver , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for two years . |
| 23 | We are often talking about young people who have been through the entire menu of alternatives to imprisonment before they are sent to a young offenders institution , formerly known as a detention centre . |
| 24 | Then , a youngster who stole three cars would go to a young offenders institution for one and a half years . |
| 25 | TWO men who used an imitation firearm to carry out a robbery were sent to a young offenders centre at Belfast Crown Court yesterday . |
| 26 | A man who gave the drug LSD to a teenager who later died of an overdose has been sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 27 | Raby to a young offenders institution for nine . |
| 28 | O ’ Neil was sent to a Young Offenders ' Institute for four years after admitting aggravated burglary and grievous bodily harm . |
| 29 | Helen , of Moulton Grove , Fairfield , Stockton , burst into tears and had to be supported by relatives after being told she was going to a young offenders institution . |
| 30 | A TEENAGER who led police on a chase at speeds of up to 90mph through a built-up area was yesterday sent to a young offenders institution for two months . |