Example sentences of "young man [Wh pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite likely , however , that there is a reference to the author in the young man who escaped and ran away naked ( 14:51 ) at the arrest of Jesus . |
| 2 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |
| 3 | The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs . |
| 4 | The parents of a young man who fell to his death from an express train say there are still unanswered questions about how it happened . |
| 5 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 6 | ‘ Are n't you the young man who spent some weeks with the research unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A young man who booked into a hostelry in London Road , Reading , and refused to give his name , was suspected . |
| 9 | The young man who made the tea sat with us , occasionally contributing to the conversation . |
| 10 | A well-known story tells of a handsome young man who made love to a village girl on a river bank before they dozed together in the sun ; as she combed his hair she found weeds and shells , thus identifying the dreaded creature . |
| 11 | The Invasion from Mars certainly contains some graphic case notes , such as the spinster who believed humanity deserved destruction for being too hedonistic ; and the unemployed young man who thought that this finally scuppered his chance of getting to college and work . |
| 12 | He was , moreover , an extremely wealthy young man who thought nothing of taking a string of polo ponies wherever he went . |
| 13 | The other side of the roaring boy , the young Hal and poetry-loving bruiser , the devil in bed and pub , was a young man who felt alone in London , knowing that he had to look out for himself and look out sharply . |
| 14 | There Julia met a young man who asked to marry her . |
| 15 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 16 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 17 | This is the story of a young man who falls in love with a girl as he is driving away from a car park . |
| 18 | The third example is a young man who falls into the rare category of those who pose a serious threat to public safety , a threat which in some instances exists for only weeks or months , although occasionally a person may remain potentially dangerous for some years . |
| 19 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 20 | ( He was the young man who hoped Tolkien would not read from the manuscript of The Lord of the Rings ) . |
| 21 | Low churchman versus high churchman ; philosopher of religion and science versus close student of the Bible ; radical divine versus enquiring conservative ; suspecter of orthodoxy versus a young man who saw the stature of the Catholic tradition . |
| 22 | As Joanna 's family and friends celebrated her safe homecoming , the young man who knew her only from her gym classes said a silent prayer of thanks . |
| 23 | One of Morelli 's youthful students was Bernard Berenson , whom Morelli described in 1890 as ‘ an extraordinarily scholarly young man who had already advanced far in the study of art ’ . |
| 24 | In company where he felt at ease , able to be himself , with Paul Alexandre , Anna Akhmatova , Lunia Czechowska , Modigliani still behaved like the well-bred and courteous young man who had first charmed Paris . |
| 25 | There was a short lull following this exchange , and then the door opened and in stepped the young man who had bought the mice and the toffee a few days ago . |
| 26 | The case described here illustrates brief counselling with a young man who had recently lost his job , and who was experiencing family and other problems . |
| 27 | He turned to the young man who had woken him . |
| 28 | The Leader , following in the track of the horses , went some paces ahead scanning the forest on either side ; behind him followed Hugh , walking close by Marian 's side ; still further back , together but with the width of the track between them , were Michael and the thin man ; and bringing up the rear was Crane , the young man who had run after the horses . |
| 29 | She glanced at Conrad whose head was near the hatch where she was working and , sure enough , he had transferred his attention from her cat to the young man who had melted into the rocking-chair ; his expression was quieter , more thoughtful . |
| 30 | In the Club section was a tall and clean-cut young man who had made the flight after connecting from Houston . |