Sentence examples for from a schoolboy from inspiring English sources

He told me Mrs. Austin had received a beautiful Astragalus from a schoolboy with scarlet flowers he did not know the name.

Before he signs any player, from a schoolboy to a world-renowned star, he badgers people about the lifestyle, the family, the roots of that individual.

In one of several well-timed shocks, the mathematician's legacy comes under threat from a schoolboy with one of the first home computers.

"We have seen him grow from a schoolboy into an established international player during his 14 years in our first-team squad and he has been a part of some of the most successful sides in the club's history," said the chairman Peter Tom, teeth firmly gritted.

Under Levin's excited eye, Turing turns from a schoolboy with "a hyena's laugh" and the "extreme brain chemistry of the highly functioning autistic" into a man "no good at deciphering people, not even himself", who prances like a horse ("lifting the knees of his skinny legs hip-high") as he delivers a lecture and seems more memorable for this than for his achievements.

Like something plucked from a schoolboy's dream.

The search is continuing for a schoolboy swept away from an East Sussex beach.

Gone from being a schoolboy to being a pro footballer.

González's sister, Maria González, is standing on a ladder and gluing strips of paper taken from student notebooks to a mini-tornado hanging from the ceiling — a schoolboy's desk is attached to its lower end.

"Then I heard someone scream from below, 'Run!' " A schoolboy told the news agency: "I saw a person fall down.

When Brazil got the ball, players lumped it forward from the back — a schoolboy tactic familiar in the lower echelons of soccer but universally frowned upon at the top.