Contemporary English ballet was born when a Polish-born ballet teacher named Marie Rambert prodded an English lad named Fred Ashton into choreographing a ballet for a production she planned.

His son worked in the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation here, till an English lad, totally unqualified, came and was immediately employed above him.

Good British steel with English lads behind them.

Had we been able to retain this industrious, kindly English lad, this would have been soon accomplished; but his wages, at the rate of thirty pounds per annum, were now utterly beyond our means.

In 1608, an English lad of 13 named Thomas Savage was traded to Chief Powhatan for a native boy, Nemotacke, as something like a cultural exchange student.

We don't want English lads blowing themselves up on our soil, but that will happen if they don't give us a platform.

Not even a pitcher's mound to work from on the borrowed rugby field, and this strapping 23-year-old English lad, Julian Dotwell, says he can flutter the ball up to the batter with the trickiness of Mary Poppins.

Andy, an English lad who came to Singapore because it sounded exotic (and because there are no jobs left at home), admits: "I didn't want to believe.

Without a shred of evidence he had employed an innuendo when what he should have said was that any normal English person could not but approve of the sight of young English lads in their uniforms, and would naturally pause to observe how they played a game.

At this moment an English lad of Sir Geoffrey's household chanced to pass by, having come to ask as to the feeding of the horse which Hugh should ride.