Example sentences of "[adv] as a young [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 2 | This may have been a late flowering of the ‘ badinage ’ that he used to partake in as a Young Conservative with Brixton locals , but so sensitive is Major about his background , that the public is permitted to hear only the Authorised Version . |
| 3 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
| 4 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 5 | They see the infinite possibilities in the subject-matter , just as a young child , pretending that the table is a house , sees the possibilities in the table , or as the religious person sees and feels God in the thunder or the mountainous waves . |
| 6 | Just as a young child needs to be contained , given a safe and secure haven from which to explore and develop mastery of skills and to which to retreat when his efforts fail , so too might an adult need security in order to develop fully . |
| 7 | Tom laughed , just as a young nurse timidly entered the room . |
| 8 | Athelstan turned to go back into his church just as a young pursuivant turned the corner of the alley , slipping and sliding on the ice as he bellowed the friar 's name . |
| 9 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 10 | At such times Captain Moreau was inclined to take heat out of the discussion by recounting jovial anecdotes illustrating the imbecility of officers on the staff of the Czarina Catherine , under whom he had served years before as a young man . |
| 11 | When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days |
| 12 | Fr from that time can you recall any incidents which er your father may have mentioned to you even as a young boy ? |
| 13 | Even as a young person me mother used to say You 'll need some sleep , you go to bed this afternoon , which I did , in obedience . |
| 14 | Even as a young man , Ezra had always taken a determined stand on general decencies . |
| 15 | He had always , even as a young man , hankered for the past . |
| 16 | Then , wryly : ‘ There may have been another reason ; even as a young man I was a staid sort of chap and they were a bit wild at times . |
| 17 | Dick or Doug Graham originated from Corby in Northampton and , even as a young lad , was soon picking up honours for his performances as a goalkeeper . |
| 18 | As a young man I listened to many yarns spun by such men as Billican Geary , Treacle Mills , and little Sparrow Martin , who had an insatiable appetite for apple pudding and who years ago as a young man dived off Rochester Bridge for a bet . |
| 19 | In his mind he saw his grand-father ; he must have visited here as a young man . |
| 20 | Oh I w I went there as a young girl . |
| 21 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 22 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 23 | The Sheikh had crossed them by camel as a boy ; then as a young man with a wife and small children , including the boy at my side , he had camped overnight on one side of the range waiting for the engines of his jeeps to cool before grinding inch by inch , around and over . |
| 24 | It was apparent to me , even then as a young officer , that what was missing in this sorry scene was any commitment to the task on the part of those who had to execute it . |
| 25 | John Williams who became a colliery manager in 1934 , and later manager of the Banwen colliery under the National Coal Board , described how as a young man he had an early glimpse of one kind of persuasion : |
| 26 | I first recall the line in 1959 when as a young boy scout I was taken to camp at Pont-y-Pant . |
| 27 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 28 | Uncle George showed me his collection of Preston North End memorabilia , dating from the period 1888 to 1902 , when as a young man he had been a staunch supporter of ‘ The Invincibles ’ who won both The Football Association Cup and Division I of The Football League in the same season . |
| 29 | Looking back upon that exit , I am reminded of a particularly nasty afternoon forty-two years ago , when as a young subaltern cowering in a ditch , the sole survivor of a shattered Churchill tank crawled from his steel tomb and offered me a cigarette . |
| 30 | She closed her tired , bloodshot eyes and saw herself again as a young woman , buxom and pregnant , set down in wild bush country , her only asset a husband as young and as strong as herself . |