Example sentences of "to a young " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 2 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 3 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 4 | And I submit that out of this same background — conversations with Pound — comes that surprising coupling of names with which Yeats ends ‘ To a Young Beauty ’ ( 1918 ) : |
| 5 | When in Auckland A cultural misunderstanding has led to a young Cook Islander being fined £75 by a New Zealand judge for squeezing the buttocks of two white women in a Wellington street . |
| 6 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 7 | However , aside from the fact that their musicianship was pretty solid , these pub bands were still really mundane to a young kid looking further ahead . |
| 8 | I went to a Young Pioneer dance in Moscow … . ’ |
| 9 | R. H. Lightfoot , for example , the chaplain of New College , and author of a learned commentary on St John 's Gospel , remarked to a young colleague of Lewis 's : ‘ His defection to the area of theology is a sad loss to the English Faculty . |
| 10 | Debbie has been referred to a Young Disabled Unit and a psychiatric unit ( ‘ On the second day they found her playing cards in the alcoholics ’ ward ’ ) . |
| 11 | A 16-year-old girl from Bermondsey , south London , was sent to a young persons ' institution for four months yesterday after being found guilty at Seymour Place juvenile court of causing grievous bodily harm to Francis Ruth Waite , 24 , daughter of Terry Waite , held hostage in Lebanon . |
| 12 | It is a monument to the two subjects that are nearest and dearest to a young teenager 's heart : sex and scatology . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not going to do anything , Ari , ’ Quincx said , in a voice he hoped would be soothing to a young girl . |
| 14 | I entered a studio at random , and spoke to a young man behind a battered desk . |
| 15 | If you were to come yourself Lily or the child 's Father I could not stand in your way whatever my feelings which are strong , but to hand over my Precious little one to a Young and Foreign girl who spoke his only language poorly that I could not do and send him with her on a dangerous voyage most frightening to him . |
| 16 | Every time a writer opens his notebook , or puts a blank sheet in a typewriter , he is making a journey to a young blind woman . ’ |
| 17 | But it is not a life calculated to appeal to a young man with sophisticated Metropolitan tastes and a career in the media . |
| 18 | The greatest applause went to a young researcher who highlighted the poor career opportunities she faced . |
| 19 | The effect was akin to handing the keys of a fast car to a young and irresponsible driver . |
| 20 | Mozart , with plans made for his departure to Paris and his mother 's return to Salzburg , became attached to a young singer , Aloysia Weber , daughter of Fridolin Weber , a violinist , singer and copyist at the Mannheim court . |
| 21 | To endorse this he was writing to a young Quaker girl in Norwich with the intention of marriage . |
| 22 | An extremely public row about the denial of tenure to a young lecturer associated with the progressive party opened old wounds and inflicted new ones on this always thin-skinned community . |
| 23 | John gave the leading part , of the woman whose husband is drowned , to a young dancer he had not previously created for , although he had partnered her in Khadra , Sheilah O'Reilly . |
| 24 | He turned and said something that Elisa could not quite catch to a young girl , unnoticed before , who had stationed herself by the door . |
| 25 | Allen , in turn , took Coleridge to Balliol to introduce him to a young radical and poet called Robert Southey , who was then almost twenty years old . |
| 26 | But the family at Shurton evidently warmed to Coleridge in spite of his views , and it was to Henry 's sister Lavinia that he would later address his affectionate short poem ‘ To a Young Lady on her Recovery from a Fever ’ . |
| 27 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 28 | The only qualification will be experience of life , plus a motivation to want to help and to offer your own home to a young person , ’ said Jane . |
| 29 | It sounded promising to a young man seeking his first practice , and he bought it . |
| 30 | I was to run second to a young newcomer on the team , David Kirton . |