Example sentences of "more than a boy " in BNC.
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| 1 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 2 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 3 | As you say , I was little more than a boy . |
| 4 | He was little more than a boy . |
| 5 | The Mogridge of Mochica was n't much more than a boy . |
| 6 | Hardly more than a boy , in fact . |
| 7 | And his will was that the slave , the young man who was scarcely more than a boy , should somehow die for his brief moment of rebellion . |
| 8 | He had been little more than a boy then . |
| 9 | Her companion , ’ the landlord shrugged , ‘ really nothing more than a boy . |
| 10 | I was n't much more than a boy myself . |
| 11 | The Emperor is no more than a boy . |
| 12 | Three wore the white coats of the back-room boffin , the fourth was diminutive , little more than a boy . |
| 13 | The likeness was there , Master Harry 's divination had been marvellously guided ; but he had carved a man , and this , after all , was no more than a boy , not yet grown . |