Example sentences of "was a young " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 2 | ‘ He said he could see I was a young man with all his wits about him . ’ |
| 3 | Waiting in the wings , there was a young colleague of his from his museum days , Paul Spence , a sculpture man . |
| 4 | The Salvation Army worker living there was a young girl , Sharon , so that balanced the house up a bit . |
| 5 | He was a young , strong dog . |
| 6 | Here was a young man learned in the New Testament and in the early Fathers ; thinking hard for himself ; manifestly a lover of God and of the gospel ; an Anglo-Catholic but one who spoke in tones more persuasive to Protestants than was usual among Anglo-Catholics , with tolerance , and respect , and a gratitude for all that was best in the Protestant tradition . |
| 7 | When I was a young girl I and my sisters would get a boat and slip away , visiting friends from island to island . |
| 8 | ‘ They had met when he was a young and not tremendously enthusiastic policeman and she was a waitress in a seafront cafe . |
| 9 | When skiing first became something akin to a mass-tourism business , it was a young person 's holiday . |
| 10 | When he was a young fighter , a doctor had to chase him around a desk to give him a shot , and chaotic mobility to him is at least as important as breathing . |
| 11 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 12 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 13 | Me Grandad told me , He said she was real lively when she was a young lass , before her bloke ran off … . ’ |
| 14 | I lived with you travellin' folk when I was a young 'un . ’ |
| 15 | She was a young female animal , ready for fucking . |
| 16 | ( Abrams was a young , bright , sharp lawyer , always well-tailored , and with an air of fierce aceticism ; he will reappear often in this story as a man trying to keep at the edge of it , and usually succeeding . |
| 17 | ‘ When I was a young girl , I was an army secretary in India . |
| 18 | ‘ Long before my time , when my great-grandmother was a young girl , she would bring the men at the mill their dinners hot under a covered tray , ’ he said earnestly . |
| 19 | When I was a young conductor in Germany it was usual to conduct the finale much slower than we hear it nowadays . |
| 20 | But then , essentially she was a young girl still , the daughter of a grocer who had ruined her with discipline ; a girl bursting with suppressed sexuality and fun . |
| 21 | Our tour manager was a quietly efficient , handsome lady , whose calm suggested those intrepid women who travelled these regions in the last century , and the lecturer was a young woman professor from Manchester University , who turned out to be an authority on mummification . |
| 22 | Her father died when she was a young girl , and her mother re-married a Mr. Hanmer who was a staunch Royalist . |
| 23 | He was a young and hopeful solicitor , still very junior in the practice . |
| 24 | The maid was a young country girl , more acceptable as a model , and Modi painted her as ‘ The Girl With Red Hands ’ . |
| 25 | When I was a young man , aspiring detectives would attend at autopsies on their rest days , just for experience . |
| 26 | There was a young American photographer with me and I saw him get caught up in it and I pulled him aside and said ‘ Do n't even take it because that 's the picture that Newsweek is going to publish . |
| 27 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 28 | The navigator was a young sergeant named Mike Sadler who had emigrated to Rhodesia before the war and who was arguably the best at finding his way around the Libyan desert . |
| 29 | There was a young Sikh in a red turban , wearing a blue quilted jacket despite the heat . |
| 30 | Paul was a young dentist whose dental practice enabled him to travel widely all over the world . |