Example sentences of "youngest [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youngest child was torn , screaming , from her mother , and taken away . |
| 2 | This difference increased to £16.30 among mothers whose youngest child was over 10 years old ( 1983 figures ) . |
| 3 | When her youngest child was a year old , she stopped breathing . |
| 4 | Not enough brains to go around , though , according to the neighbours , and the youngest boy was out of luck . |
| 5 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 6 | The age of the perpetrator varied widely : the youngest offender was 16 while the oldest was 78 . |
| 7 | When we moved from Durham to Bristol our youngest daughter was ten . |
| 8 | His youngest daughter was almost ready for burial , her body emptied , dried out , repacked , decked out for the long night , bandaged in the finest linen with the scarab placed over her heart , and laid in her case of painted cedarwood . |
| 9 | Brian Howells says his youngest daughter was lucky to escape injury . |
| 10 | The youngest ship was built only 12 years ago and the oldest was constructed in 1966 . |
| 11 | In the neighbouring parish of Cosby the 1851 census returns show that both William and Mary Burbage , a couple in their forties , were working at frames , that the four eldest of their ten children were framework knitters , and that three more children worked at seaming ; the youngest worker was Elizabeth , aged six . |
| 12 | At the other end of the scale , the youngest competitor was just sixteen years old . |
| 13 | The youngest victim was just nine years old . |
| 14 | Father was invalided out before the end of the war with a poisoned hand , and a year after his return my youngest brother was born , there being over seventeen years difference in our ages . |
| 15 | When my youngest brother was born and I was between eight and nine years old , my troubles began in earnest . |
| 16 | Her youngest brother was Raymond Robins , the human rights activist . |
| 17 | When my youngest brother was born , all the birds went away . |
| 18 | The youngest son was kept alive , to be reared as a Muslim . ’ |
| 19 | Throughout the long days of his recovery , the Youngest Son was never left alone . |
| 20 | I had not seen Um Hamed since those frightening days when the Youngest Son was in hospital . |
| 21 | His youngest son was known to Regency society by the sobriquet Poodle Byng . |
| 22 | The Dean 's youngest son was twenty-two . |
| 23 | He kissed her , held her to the breast where the skin of the youngest son was warmed by his own skin , and the horn of the stag kept the life and the memory of the youngest son alive . |
| 24 | Apparently that imperious woman , Lady Nancy Wyndham , felt that her youngest son was marrying well beneath him , although her husband had been very kind and friendly . |
| 25 | ‘ When my youngest son was born , we clocked him in to the second . |