Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the young " in BNC.
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| 1 | A military career had fascinated the young Makarenko , though he disliked it and had to be discharged on account of poor eyesight . |
| 2 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 3 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 4 | She had seen the young man leaving Mary Kelly 's rooms and slipping out of the building by the back way on more than one occasion . |
| 5 | Even recently a white South African registered surprise on hearing that Nelson Mandela could speak , 40 years on , with fresh enthusiasm of a Neil Harvey innings , 151 at Kingsmead , Durban in 1951 , that Mandela had seen the young Harvey score . |
| 6 | They had seen the young men too . |
| 7 | He had seen the young French clerk whom Celeste had seduced , be broken in a matter of days and confess to whatever question had been put to him . |
| 8 | If you had seen the young girl who was apparently in the bed what would you have done ? |
| 9 | There was a girl in charge of the place , a child of perhaps twelve , who told me that her name was Morag , and that her auntie had stepped out on a visit , but had said the young lady from Camus na Dobhrain might be there to use the telephone , and please to go through . |
| 10 | But his sudden withdrawing of his Fourth Symphony and his artist 's response in his Fifth Symphony had made the young revolutionary acutely aware of the precarious role of the creative artist in Stalin 's Soviet Union . |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't trust the French , ’ the famous writer and philosopher had told the young man . |
| 12 | The base categories selected for the explanatory variables are old and poor , to try to avoid negative paths ; if we had used the young as the baseline , we would have certainly produced a negative effect of old age on preparedness to break the law , for example . |
| 13 | She had noted the young woman 's attire . |
| 14 | His rescuer was smiling , pulling and pointing at the tartan plaid that had protected the young Highlander in his wanderings across eastern Europe . |
| 15 | Passing sentence Judge John Petrie said he took into account the fact that Spence had spared the young people the ordeal of giving evidence in court by his guilty plea . |
| 16 | The Macleod Report of 1965 had set the Young Conservatives a target of a quarter of a million members , and it had declared the importance of political involvement . |
| 17 | He had asked the young men if they had been to Germany — knowing they had not . |
| 18 | No one of any sense had wanted the Young Frog to be given a command in the Duke 's army , but the Old Frog would not hear of the Netherlands joining the coalition unless his son held high command , and thus the politicians in London had forced the Duke of Wellington to concede . |
| 19 | Homesickness , the love of a teenage girlfriend called June and a premature belief in his ability had encouraged the young Souness to jump ship . |
| 20 | For Seldes it was contemporary drama that had been to blame , for it had encouraged the young movie industry to take ‘ the slice of life ’ as its subject-matter . |
| 21 | James had been head shepherd and farm manager since her parents ' death , he had guided the young Iskandara through the pitfalls of estate management , helping her to hire and fire , to plant with trees the slopes that would not take sheep , to deal with poachers on the river , maintain the roads and fences . |
| 22 | Dolly had taken the young gipsy girl to her heart once it was established she would not be marrying Seb . |
| 23 | ( In the 1992 election it hardly got beyond a slanging match over who had identified the young patient awaiting treatment for glue ear who was featured in a Labour election broadcast . ) |
| 24 | He had sent the young sports-car-driver to ring for the police and ambulance at a phone-box a mile or so back . |
| 25 | At the moment of extinction , he had held the young man 's mind up like a pierced coconut and let all the thin milk trickle out . |
| 26 | The girl , whose name was Marion , was now a magistrate , and a grandmother , but the escapade had sharpened the young Grunte 's appetites and he had made it his business in the intervening years to keep up what he cheerfully called ‘ my rate of strike ’ . |
| 27 | Mandy had just left out one crucial detail when she had described the young woman who had arrived from England . |