Example sentences of "as a young " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picasso 's Guernica is ‘ OK for some but I do n't like it ’ , as a young boy put it . |
| 2 | I remember as a young man walking up and down the main street of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition for the sheer pleasure of it , and thinking how marvellous it would be if every town could have a street like this . |
| 3 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 4 | ( Former schoolfriends recall an occasion when Mrs Thatcher , as a young MP , returned to her old school as chief speaker at a dinner for Old Girls , and corrected the headmistress , who was a classical scholar , on the pronunciation of her Latin . ) |
| 5 | Perhaps , also , as a young boy Jesus himself might have been sent on errands to fill the pitcher . |
| 6 | Sir Neill Cooper-Key , Lord Rothermere 's son-in-law , procured the safe Conservative seat of Hastings because , as a young army officer in 1945 he happened to be drinking in the bar of the Berkeley Hotel . |
| 7 | It reminds me of when , as a young man just flown from the comfort and security of the parental nest , I rented a small flat . |
| 8 | A. Vogl wrote a charming account of how , as a young doctor on the wards of a Vienna hospital , he discovered that patients passed very large volumes of urine after they had received injections of one of the new organic mercurial compounds . |
| 9 | Obviously , as a young woman , with only enthusiasm and few resources , I did not know that the Blackwomen 's Creativity Project would be creating history by staging exhibitions and events . |
| 10 | Doctor Bailey , as a young man , had been offered the major part of the next door garden by the Admiral 's predecessor . |
| 11 | It was de Kruif who in 1919 , as a young PhD just returned to the University of Michigan after two years at war , decided on a career that would make more money for himself and his future wife than what he called ‘ microbe hunting ’ . |
| 12 | George Healey , as a young man in the early 1860s , paid a visit to London where he learnt of church services for the deaf conducted by the Revs . |
| 13 | Elizabeth Groves , as a young girl , had been befriended by the Queen who met the cost of her education at the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 14 | She was a tall girl , slender and graceful , and as straight as a young pine-tree . |
| 15 | The baby looked at him brightly out of clear , wide-open eyes , as healthy as a young rabbit . |
| 16 | ‘ Her doctor feels that if he could get her to face up to whatever it was that had such a damaging effect on her as a young child , then she would … well , take a grip on life again , see Harry in a different light , enjoy him , in fact , instead of escaping into illness as a way out of all her responsibilities . ’ |
| 17 | As a young animal grows its rank changes , but not automatically ; it must fight for every increase in dominance it achieves . |
| 18 | And one way and another he got together , in most weeks , as much spending money as a young working miner . |
| 19 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 20 | As a young mother said , ‘ Clean sheets twice a week are now possible . |
| 21 | This implies that in time the antisemitic ideology will disappear , as a young post-war generation takes over the leadership of the far right . |
| 22 | It had been an exacting treadmill , not at all what he had envisaged when , as a young priest , newly ordained , he had arrived in Cork from his County Longford village of Granard . |
| 23 | Apparently it is not intended to decide that a bowler with a long run pays more than a dashing opening batsman , but rather to ensure that a highly-paid Test cricketer does not necessarily pay the same amount as a young uncapped player . |
| 24 | ‘ Maurice , as a young man , had a strong antipathy for business ; he went to an art college and after … ’ |
| 25 | In 1969 , as a young arts graduate , I started a gallery in Boyce 's Avenue ( remember the short street through the archway by the chemist 's shop at the end of the path across Victoria Square ? ) . |
| 26 | When the leading lady 's on stage , you do n't notice the rest of the cast , Sabine thought wryly , the wording of madame 's introduction not lost on her , as a young woman got up from a sofa in another part of the room , and came forward with open reluctance . |
| 27 | Besides , did I not once , as a young man , |
| 28 | She had tales to tell of him as a small boy , as a young man . |
| 29 | It took some time to locate the bottle — normally as healthy as a young animal , Rory rarely had need of medication . |
| 30 | It comes on the same day as a young couple and their 4 year old son in Warwick were killed by gas fumes . |