Example sentences of "young [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 2 | LANCASHIRE 'S young lions came to the rescue , winning five out of the last six games to force a draw with reigning Northern Counties champions Yorkshire in the annual friendly match between the arch rivals at Scarcroft . |
| 3 | In 1980 , a group of young musicians met in the University for the first rehearsal of what has since become one of the country 's leading brass ensembles . |
| 4 | Musicon Concert , St Mary 's College , Durham SIRITSU is a group of four young musicians devoted to the performance of music of Spanish and Bolivian origin , particularly that associated with the silver mining town of Potosi . |
| 5 | The court 's verdict on Jampa Ngodrup 's case said he had asked a young monk working at the Barkor Clinic to compile a list of people detained as a result of violent clashes between police forces and demonstrators on 5 March 1988 . |
| 6 | The author was James Meade , a young economist working in the Cabinet Office . |
| 7 | Fourteen cities around the world are sending teams of young artists to perform in The Ark — designed by bOb ( sic ) van Reeth , the city 's leading architect — during the course of the year . |
| 8 | Considered ‘ best value of the festival ’ , this series gives the opportunity to hear brilliant young artists perform in the fine acoustic and welcoming ambience of the Friends Centre . |
| 9 | Abdullahi soon spotted a cow and three young bulls grazing in the open above the heathline . |
| 10 | Nuadu had said that the Robemaker and CuRoi took sacrifices from the ordinary people of Ireland ; strong young sons to work at the Looms , although presumably they would not actually do this work themselves . |
| 11 | A young PC went to the letter box and began shouting through it . |
| 12 | The equivalent of a veliger larval stage is completed within the capsule and the young snails escape to the outside world through the apical hole as " crawlaways " . |
| 13 | The autumn passage of birds through Shetland tends to be more noticeable than in spring , and there are several reasons for this : there are many more birds on the move because the migrating flocks include all the young birds raised during the summer . |
| 14 | Watch the robin especially because it always flies low , and you might see a nervous young Minpin perched on the feathers having its first flying lesson . |
| 15 | A regular at The Alma said : ‘ This was spontaneous action by young kids running down the road and sorting out anything that was not Asian . ’ |
| 16 | Bobby Gillespie was right when he told me , ‘ I used to go stand where all the young kids stood in the corner . |
| 17 | In my September landscape , mushrooms and fungi grow on the woodland floor , while young foxes move through the undergrowth . |
| 18 | It is assumed that the personal and social significance of transport in general and driving in particular develops rapidly between the ages of 13 and 19 , and that the knowledge , attitudes and judgements relating to driving that develop during these years will have an important bearing on how young drivers behave on the road . |
| 19 | The Captain tried to slide the back window down as unobtrusively as possible when the young Sub-lieutenant sitting beside the driver began to choke . |
| 20 | The door opened and a young priest came into the room , a wiry man of middle height . |
| 21 | Myles edged in , hands twisting the brim of his hat , while the young priest stood at the door looking curiously on . |
| 22 | That was how the story always goes : the young reformer wins in the end , but by the next picture the corrupt machine politicians are still in power . |
| 23 | He had sent the young sports-car-driver to ring for the police and ambulance at a phone-box a mile or so back . |
| 24 | As the sun sinks , the young bats stream from the cave-mouth like smoke and set off on the first stage of their long journey south . |
| 25 | As the church clock in the square struck half-past eleven , a handsome young soldier marched into the church and spoke to the vicar . |
| 26 | A young soldier appeared beneath the arched gateway , flanked by two men-at-arms , wielding pikes . |
| 27 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 28 | The county 's young men are taking the charts by storm as a string of young dance bands from the area have rocketed to stardom over the last 18 months . |
| 29 | I incurred his displeasure on one occasion , there was a young lady sat on the form in front , we had those , where you sat in pairs , on the iron sort of things . |
| 30 | A young lady appeared at the top of the stairs . |