Example sentences of "[pron] young [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 2 | Bone said yesterday : ‘ My young players are handling the pressure well and that is a bonus for us . ’ |
| 3 | It was excepted that that , in a lot of cases wives were expected to give their jobs up when they 're married , but I see now the mo , my er , not my own children but my young nieces and nephews , the men , th the husbands are present at the birth of their children , they are enchanted , they are making fantastic fathers because they are taking responsibilities ! |
| 4 | Whenever she turned , whenever she spoke , they exuded an excitement which had my young loins stirring . |
| 5 | My young men shall never work . |
| 6 | No matter how secretive I am with it , she can sniff it out at the drop of a handfork and , of course , most of my young plants are dug up . |
| 7 | Why should I possibly become interested in the emotional development of my young patients ? |
| 8 | How can I safely protect my young children 's skin from the sun when on holiday ? |
| 9 | ‘ That is not a normal fog , ’ said one of my young uncles . |
| 10 | " If you 're going to be one of my young reporters , you 'll need to be curious . |
| 11 | First of all I want my young reporters to be able to observe . |
| 12 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 13 | In the remainder of this chapter I will report some of the attitudes and beliefs about language expressed by some of my young informants . |
| 14 | Of one thing I am certain — the curriculum has changed since my young days . |
| 15 | Andrew Carnegie , millionaire-to-be , believed his ‘ optimistic nature ’ and wit ‘ must have been inherited ’ from his ‘ delightful old masquerading grandfather ; ’ while the future feminist Hannah Mitchell could see her own dogged persistence in the extraordinary working energy of the octogenarian grandmother who was ‘ the delight and terror of my young days ’ |
| 16 | I killed the wolves myself in my young days . |
| 17 | In my young days , the western stream was known as the River Doe and the eastern the River Twiss : there was no apparent reason for the name Doe , but the name Twiss seemed to be derived from Twisleton Scar and Twisleton Hall below which it flowed . |
| 18 | The old smells were there , ‘ Itma ’ had been superseded by ‘ Coronation Street ’ in the Rest Room , and there were ‘ No Smoking ’ signs — unheard of in my young days — but one thing was missing . |
| 19 | Not that in my young days there were never some wild moments . |
| 20 | I well remember going with her to buy a new hat ( we all wore hats in my young days ) . |
| 21 | It was n't like that in my young days . |
| 22 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 23 | I remember in my young days — ’ She stopped and for a moment they sat quietly , both thinking of past Christmases when their parents and grandparents had been alive . |
| 24 | But I have n't bothered with dresses for so long — it brings back some happy memories of my young days . |
| 25 | Though far from the stage ( the platform ) my young eyes were sharp and clear , as was my hearing . |
| 26 | While Helen 's day was filled by the demands of her young charges and the vain attempts of Mrs Webb to train her in some orderliness in domestic affairs , Edward continued to tend her father 's grave . |
| 27 | Theda had followed in the Gallery of Fashion — which all her young charges had avidly studied — the steady rise of waists over the last three or four years , but never before had she felt quite so outdated . |
| 28 | But , avidly staring , he persuaded himself into both the disappointment and the relief of recognizing that the girl possessed the kind of grace or innate innocence which made it very unlikely — no , impossible ! filthily impossible ! — that her young breasts and thighs were commodities available for temporary hire . |
| 29 | Now he found himself remembering , not the song , not the singer , but her young breasts ; the breasts of Juliet , springing like fruit from a bough . |
| 30 | She began to feel the urgent rise and fall of his chest against the compact roundness of her young breasts , and knew a tingling awareness in them that threaded through her entire body in a way that was completely new to her and utterly wonderful . |