Example sentences of "young man 's [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end he gave up trying to analyse his own feelings , or even totally understand them , and lay there relaxed , listening for the slow , regular breathing of sleep , and was n't sure if he detected it or not — The door opened briefly at one point and a young man 's voice said " Shit , " but Graham did n't even turn to look ; he knew it could be nothing which would disturb them . |
| 2 | ‘ Not the wall , ’ he heard the young man 's voice say . |
| 3 | The Rev. Al Sharpton , a black clergyman who had led several protest marches in connection with the case , stated that " we are proud to see a young man 's life paid for with some measure of justice " . |
| 4 | There had been several copyings out and rewritings over a number of years , and although the changes made are sometimes evidence of ideological revisionism ( the poet had become more conformist in his later years ) , what is remarkable is how much of the young man 's vision has been allowed to remain intact . |
| 5 | In the back kitchen of The Hangman 's Arms , Milcom Moloch , a young man 's dream stood over the frying pan . |
| 6 | For the first time , the young man 's positiveness seemed to desert him . |
| 7 | In its Final Report , the Criminal Law Revision Committee has recommended that there should be a full scale extension of the young man 's defence to cover men of all ages . |
| 8 | The young man 's head went up . |
| 9 | When Minton learnt that one of the young man 's interests had not yet been fulfilled , he arranged matters so that after one Hampstead Arts Ball Hunt lost his virginity . |
| 10 | The weight his stepfather had put on the young man 's shoulders had made David seem much older than his twenty-eight years . |
| 11 | The young man 's intentions had been honourable and he had asked his father to obtain her as a bride . |
| 12 | My husband has always maintained that it destroys a young man 's ambition to succeed in life if he is financially indulged too young . |
| 13 | The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place . |
| 14 | The young man 's eyes narrowed as he tried to identify the speaker . |
| 15 | The young man 's eyes kept involuntarily catching those of the Substitute , who was staring at him pleasantly . |
| 16 | One of the young man 's eyes had been gouged out and he had been castrated . |
| 17 | The young man 's hand moved fractionally closer to the butt of his pistol . |
| 18 | The young man 's face froze . |
| 19 | The young man 's face darkened even more . |
| 20 | Signs of deliberate scarring on the young man 's face attributed to Christian zealots bear testimony to the rise of Christianity in the site 's Byzantine phase . |
| 21 | The young man 's solicitor explained to the court how badly he was hurt in the accident . |