Example sentences of "a [adj] young " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I live very well , ’ he said , as I could see , for at that moment a well-dressed young woman came in and bought the carving of Maeve for twenty-five pounds . |
| 2 | It was driven by a well-dressed young man smoking a cigar . |
| 3 | The landlord claimed a well-dressed young man also passed through the village about the same time . |
| 4 | A stool was brought out , and as the last echoes of twelve faded in the warm night air a dark-haired young man with flashing black eyes came and stood alone in the dim light . |
| 5 | STRANGE SEAT MATES On one of my planning visits to Washington I sat next to a pleasant young lady on the plane out . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's such a pleasant young girl , you see , ’ continued Gladys Brown insinuatingly . |
| 7 | Yes , she could take him in , if he didna mind sharing a bed with Mr Hamilton , who was a pleasant young gentleman . |
| 8 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 9 | I want to be a rich young man , if wealth is what it takes to buy this feeling ; a young lord leaving the city after a night of riot … |
| 10 | Its central character is a rich young patrician gay man who becomes increasingly aware of previous generations of homosexual men in his class . |
| 11 | Ricks ' talk features a brilliant analysis of Dylan 's 1964 song , The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll , which tells the story of a woman who was killed by a rich young man , William ‘ Zanzinger ’ . |
| 12 | She does n't understand him , but I do — he 's a rich young man with a beautiful body . |
| 13 | On the drive back he considered whether the man were guilty of something more heinous than drinking champagne with a rich young woman on an afternoon when his constituents might reasonably expect him to be in the House of Commons . |
| 14 | Alongside the item about Sniffy Wilson and the MacQuillan death plot , Holly had ringed a story about Vanessa taking up with a rich young duke after the break-up of her marriage to Wickham . |
| 15 | ‘ Tell me , what does a rich young girl like you call the normal sort ? ’ |
| 16 | He was sure that there was a rich young fellow — no one who looked and behaved like McAllister could be without one . |
| 17 | A rich young girl of good family was seldom , if ever , on her own . |
| 18 | The Minister is a friendly young chap . |
| 19 | Cautiously , like a shy young animal , she moved closer and relaxed against him . |
| 20 | ‘ It was a great occasion for a shy young don . ’ |
| 21 | Travellers on the road refused to give him money ; they said he was a lazy young dog and did n't deserve anything . |
| 22 | These included the BBC 's Your Witness , a courtroom-style debate in which the producer 's assistant was a toothy young lady by the name of Esther Rantzen , and two interviews with Prince Philip , once on my own when he came to Edinburgh as Chancellor of the University , the other in Newcastle for Tyne-Tees ' Face the Press . |
| 23 | One day I chanced upon a chubby black and white brute molesting a helpless young sparrow and rushed to the rescue . |
| 24 | Now the reader met a suffering young man on the first page of the novel . |
| 25 | The book adds a distinctive , more cheerful gloss to the boyhood and early youth of a precocious young writer who later , on his own testimony , suffered bouts of depression of different degrees of intensity from the age of sixteen onwards . |
| 26 | THE COMMITMENTS , Alan Parker 's wickedly funny tale of a fiery young band who bring soul music to Dublin , has just been released by FoxVideo ( £12.99 ) . |
| 27 | Eventually a frail young women appeared , shaking with fear , and was taken into a nearby house . |
| 28 | What Nicholas saw was a sweet-faced young boy , wet hair plastered across his forehead , eyes wide shining with alarm , face flushed with heat or panic . |
| 29 | I am enjoying my own attention ; a carpenter in a large mustard sweater , and a sweet-faced young lad with glasses . |
| 30 | A strong young fellow like you does n't take thirty-five minutes to get here from the Kingsbrook bridge . ’ |