Example sentences of "[vb past] to the young [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maude Philpott , daughter of a cutler , solemnly betrothed to the young Cranston . |
| 2 | " No you were n't , you were fast asleep , and he turned to the young officer and enquired : " Did you see him asleep , Sir ? " |
| 3 | He turned to the young man who had woken him . |
| 4 | He returned to the young woman and carried her in , sitting her down in the fireside armchair . |
| 5 | She waved to the young man and called out something which he could not catch . |
| 6 | In any case , the instant she turned , smiled and waved to the young lifeguard ( who could n't control himself and burst out laughing ) , she was unaware of her age . |
| 7 | She looked to the young man as if for reassurance , and he smiled back and nodded for Ellie to go on in , which she did without , much to her surprise , suddenly finding herself sitting upright at home in bed , clutching her thin bedding around her and wondering how her mind could imagine such things . |
| 8 | Ten cold , frightened men climbed out of their trench and listened to the young officer in cynical silence . |
| 9 | Scholarship and sport and money and poetry : four of the things that mattered to the young Welshman , and something else he needed more : opportunity . |
| 10 | Then he spoke to the young woman again . |
| 11 | ‘ One night on that , my son , and you are in danger of electrocution , ’ I said to the young Sheikh as the unctuous Asian salesman waited . |
| 12 | Then he said to the young woman , with a smile , ‘ Why do n't you come with me , my dear ? |
| 13 | The man wrote to the young man 's parents that their son ‘ strikes me as someone who stands in his own light ’ . |
| 14 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 15 | As I left , if you remember , you were kind enough to invite me to get in touch with you at once if I had any problems , and as soon as we were outside I suggested to the young man that I should indeed wait and continue our talk at some later point in the morning . |