Example sentences of "for a young [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Nicholson meanwhile was doing rather well in her beautician business and when Jack was five they moved from the less-salubrious surroundings of Sixth Avenue in Neptune to Fifth Avenue in Neptune City which was , as Jack recognized years later , a slightly better position for a young boy . |
| 2 | He was far too pure for a young boy and he was n't very realistic . |
| 3 | The article ended : ‘ The prince 's image has been badly damaged and statesman-like behaviour can not compensate for a young wife throwing herself downstairs in an attempted suicide while her husband strides to go out riding . |
| 4 | Later we explained about the difficulties of being a single parent ; of financial strain , of the unsatisfactory life for a young child of being in a day-nursery from early morning till evening , and returning with an exhausted and lonely mother to a one-roomed flat . |
| 5 | The aim of treatment is not for a young child to lose weight as it would be in an adult , but to maintain their weight or make below normal weight gain ( Dietz 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Can I afford to wait for a young child to discover such procedures ? |
| 7 | Yeah , I , you may laugh but you see if you 're writing stories for a , for a young child then you 've got to be explicit , you 've got to be colourful and you 've got to talk in a basic language that that child will talk that like that at that age . |
| 8 | Fifty miles is a long way for a young child to go alone . ’ |
| 9 | and it 's an ordeal for a young child |
| 10 | The other friends were all Parisian except for a young couple , Rumanians living in Paris , distant relations of Teodor . |
| 11 | So what would be the prospects for a young artist who worked and had his friends and comrades in St-Germain-des Pres in 1945 ? |
| 12 | I think it is much healthier for a young artist to be treated like that , rather than told play this or that in a particular way . |
| 13 | I have met plenty of those since my husband left me — for another man , incidentally , not for a young bimbo . |
| 14 | A thousand feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be — especially with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand . |
| 15 | Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand ! |
| 16 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 17 | Alarm bells rang with Liz when she heard it tells the story of an ageing , boozy Hollywood star who falls for a young construction worker she meets in a clinic . |
| 18 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 19 | It 's not right for a young girl . |
| 20 | He was fighting for a young girl 's honour , and the honour of the police-force . |
| 21 | Thus the plate for a young girl or spinster was lozenge-shaped , shield-shaped for a boy or young man , rectangular with central cartouche for a married woman or widow and rectangular with central square panel for an adult male , married man or widower . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I suppose it was pretty quiet for a young girl at Four Winds . |
| 24 | It was n't fit for a young girl , he 'd explained in his thick brogue , and her half-brother had grinned and mocked her behind his back . |
| 25 | I fitted this into a narrow , plain gold frame , making a lovely present for a young girl or baby . |
| 26 | ‘ Most unwise for a young girl . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it 's a big move for a young girl and no doubt there will be a few family tears at the airport come June 21st . |
| 28 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 29 | Very many men will admit , if they are honest with themselves , that at one time or another they have felt sexual attraction for a young girl — or boy . |
| 30 | It 's quite unsuitable for a young girl , ’ her mother answered casually . |