Example sentences of "[vb pp] of a young [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't wept or clung to him , demanded to know what he felt about her , uttered those naive and sweetly foolish declarations of undying love expected of a young girl whose virginity had just been taken . |
| 2 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 3 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 4 | A lovely story is told of a young herdsman who saw one of the Gwraggedd Annwn rowing on a lake in a golden boat . |
| 5 | Mr John Moore , then Social Security Secretary , had spoken of a young woman in his constituency who obtained special benefit and a council flat by becoming pregnant . |