Example sentences of "young [noun sg] who [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward turned up late for their rendezvous , and found Foley standing at the bar with a much younger man who had a long , intelligent face and a quiet manner , whom he introduced as Harold Philby , known as Kim . |
| 2 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |
| 3 | Annie was a cheerful , tireless and obliging young lady who had a young man , a dowry in an old sock , and a helpful welcome for customers who were not only hard-up but a bit embarrassed . |
| 4 | Neil Sargeant , who is the first-choice wicketkeeper , will be under pressure from another new signing , David Ligertwood , a young Australian who has a British passport . |
| 5 | ‘ So you 're the lucky young girl who has a baby brother ! |
| 6 | In 1850 , from Constantinople , Flaubert announces three projects : ‘ Une nuit de Don Juan ’ ( which reaches the planning stage ) ; ‘ Anubis ’ , the story of ‘ the woman who wants to be fucked by a god ’ ; and ‘ My Flemish novel about the young girl who dies a virgin and a mystic … in a little provincial town , at the bottom of a garden planted with cabbages and bulrushes … |
| 7 | Our most successful player at Peachtree was Eoghan O'Connell , a young Irishman who has a future which ought to be the equal of Claydon 's . |
| 8 | The enormous crime rate and the fact that the average age of a young person who takes a car is 15 are new and frightening phenomena . |
| 9 | In America we met one young person who saw a picture of ours and told us he felt so happy in front of it because he did n't feel alone in the world any more . |
| 10 | Everyone claims to know some young stud who had a fling with Cindy before she left DeKalb but none can produce names . |
| 11 | Behind the public smiles Diana is a lonely and unhappy young woman who endures a loveless marriage , is seen as an outsider by the Queen and the rest of the royal family and is frequently at odds with the aims and objectives of the pervasive royal system . |
| 12 | The escape , made possible in part by the chemical explosion in Quinn of the Fury , is followed by a series of independent forays in which Quinn seizes a French sloop carrying hides by following it into a secret harbour and pretending he and his men are drunken sailors returning on board , rescues Royalist prisoners from a castle by skulking and climbing , seizes another French ship by disguising the prize vessel under his command as French , and outwits a pirate ship by means of a collision ( rescuing , by the way , a young Contessa who adds a romantic touch to the story ) . |
| 13 | He and his wife remember with pleasure one young man who spent a particularly fine Sunday afternoon reclining in a deckchair with a straw hat over his eyes . |
| 14 | But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend . |
| 15 | The only other person we saw was a tall , well-dressed young negro who bought a pair of the coloured denim hipster trousers . |
| 16 | It stars Victoria Abril as a sexy young widow who rents a room to Paco ( Jorge Sanz ) and despite the fact he is engaged to his virginal girlfriend , he is more than happy to be seduced by his landlady . |
| 17 | BBC 's World About Us ( 20 March ) explored in A highly desirable residence the domestic world of a young couple who bought a mouldering , 18th century cottage . |
| 18 | Do they not realise what would happen to a young couple who bought a terraced cottage that had a traditionally low rateable value ? |
| 19 | All this is most unfortunate , especially for Gian Luca Ricci , the other young soloist who gives a charming performance , and for the Orchestra da Camera de Milano and the conductor Paolo Vaglieri . |