Sentence examples for a boy of adapting from inspiring English sources

He had the luxury as a boy of adapting his bedroom to reflect his changing interests.

In the first part of the paper a discussion on the modification of the standard in terms of loads and distances is presented, to adapt the available data to the test case, a boy of 12 years and 45 kg.

But it is also Hari's own journey as his family are killed and he - a boy of camel-breeding stock - is forced to uproot himself and to adapt to an alien life in Manhattan".

A boy of 17 was also injured.

It's just a matter of adapting".

At one table, a teaching assistant cradles the hand of a boy in an adapted chair comfortingly, while another offers gentle encouragement to other pupils.

Being Flynn is directed and adapted by Paul Weitz, who also directed the excellent film About A Boy adapted from Nick Hornby's book, and both films share the unique and challenging trait of having two narrators.

His cookery books, which include Appetite, Eat and the Kitchen Diaries, have won a host of awards, while his autobiography Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger was adapted by BBC Films and starred Helena Bonham Carter and Freddie Highmore.

Raymond Briggs's tale of a snowman who comes to life and befriends a small boy was adapted for the stage by Bill Alexander in 1993.

Paul Weitz, who was one of three people nominated for "About a Boy" in the best adapted screenplay category, joked that "everyone in Hollywood, I hear, is overpaid anyway, so I don't think it will help us".

In 2004, My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy was adapted into a one-woman play.