Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] as a young " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first books I read as a young adult was A G L Fisher 's History of Europe . |
| 2 | We were also lucky enough to find Goutama , whom I remembered as a young syce in the Legation stables when I was a boy ; he had accompanied my father on his long trek to Nairobi in 1914 . |
| 3 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 4 | . However that was all changed and er that was the first thing we changed and erm then we erm , during the period we , the staff were changed , Mr and Mrs who are in charge of now , they came as a young couple to View and er I think with their coming , they had different ideas and the place did seem to change . |
| 5 | He studied as a young man in Paris , where he became a canon of the Augustinian house of St Victor . |
| 6 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |
| 7 | Born in Scotland he started as a young full-back at Park Head … then after 200 games with Carlisle … he hit the big time with Spurs … that 's when he became pals with Hoddle … at 29 his English career was wrecked by injury … he helped pioneer soccer in the states and then came back home again to coach … |
| 8 | Certainly this is one aspect of the poetry he wrote during his marriage to Vivien , at least up to Ash-Wednesday , and also of the early poetry he wrote as a young man in Paris . |