Example sentences of "a young " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 2 | I was delighted to see you had chosen a young man and woman with Down 's Syndrome to model shirts in the Spring 1991 catalogue . |
| 3 | Walter Pater was a master of atmosphere ; he had been inspired as a young man by Ruskin , and his idealism about art and his fine prose were in turn much admired by a younger generation of aesthetes , among whom Oscar Wilde was a prominent figure . |
| 4 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 5 | The old man is sitting under a tree , and a young girl is near him ; I think he is blind — at least , he ought to be . |
| 6 | Picasso 's Guernica is ‘ OK for some but I do n't like it ’ , as a young boy put it . |
| 7 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 8 | Rosalind , disguised as a young man ( Ganymede ) speaks to Phoebe , who clearly considers her to be an attractive male . |
| 9 | Mrs Sullen is a young gentlewoman , living in the country much against her will , and chafing against marriage to a drunken brute . |
| 10 | Maggie is a young , burnt-out pop singer . |
| 11 | He mimics a young woman 's voice |
| 12 | Rita is a young , married , working-class hairdresser , who rebels against her circumstances , and decides to acquire a higher education . |
| 13 | As a young actor you obviously went for a great deal of variety in characters and accents . |
| 14 | Indeed , in the Irish general election of 1987 , progressive democrats took 14 seats , and 11.8 per cent of the total vote , which is sizeable for a young political party . |
| 15 | But for the time being , with a young family at home , he is very happy to have switched to contract catering . |
| 16 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 17 | Its sound provided the first syllable of Poirot 's name ‘ poir ’ , and for the second one need look no further than the French word ‘ perdreau ’ , meaning ‘ a young partridge ’ . |
| 18 | Not that he 'd ever for a moment think of … taking advantage , so to speak , of a young woman of loose morals like Mrs Heatherington-Scott . ’ |
| 19 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 20 | ‘ He said he could see I was a young man with all his wits about him . ’ |
| 21 | Somehow working with a young cast in Dublin has brought out the best in Parker as a director to create the film that is already being talked about as the best rock movie in years . |
| 22 | We are delighted to continue the festival tradition of presenting films by talented young Canadian directors : amongst the titles we will screen this year are HIGHWAY 61 , by the director of last year 's cult classic ROADKILL ‘ H ’ , a harrowing tale of a young couple 's fight to kick heroin ; AN IMAGINARY TALE , a weird and wonderful fantasy from Montreal ; plus two short films from the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies , including John Greyson 's new film THE MAKING OF ‘ MONSTERS ’ . |
| 23 | Waiting in the wings , there was a young colleague of his from his museum days , Paul Spence , a sculpture man . |
| 24 | Before long , a young woman appeared : short , with short blonde hair and pale-blue eyes . |
| 25 | I have a young friend in her early twenties who wants to do some A-levels at a reasonable nightschool in London . |
| 26 | The Salvation Army worker living there was a young girl , Sharon , so that balanced the house up a bit . |
| 27 | One day a young journeyman white-washing the inside of the houses ran his brush over the toad 's back . |
| 28 | Of course , if you have a young family and feel water might be a hazard , the feature could become a raised sandpit or planter , which naturally gives you the opportunity of converting it at a later stage . |
| 29 | I 've spent hours crouching behind plants watching birds and insects , hedgehogs , often frogs and toads and on one memorable occasion a young fox . |
| 30 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |