You can't tell when a lad of 18 is released from prison how he will be in his twenties.
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He was a good lad, with a good sense of humour and a lot of fun to be with.
"It's a lot of money for a young lad and he's not the finished product, " Sanchez told BBC Sport.
Near Christmas, volunteers put on a dazzling display of lights and, on the day before Christmas Eve, The Ship Inn cooks up a traditional dish of stargazy pie in honour of local lad Tom Bawcock, who supposedly ended a village famine by braving storms to land a bounty of fish.
Spare a thought for the shy Scottish lad who's having a bit of a culture shock in the African BB house.
He was office boy for a solicitors but he could not stop drawing, even on leegal dokuments scratch scratch, is that a kartoon you have done my lad, yes it is a fantasy of the future Molesworth, wot a horrible thing I think you had better leave.
Here's hoping it will help Tugg regain the status he lost in his most recent cinematic outing, a brazen Oscar bid: the title role in "Simple Jack, " the tale of a mentally impaired lad with a desperate need for orthodontic intervention and the ability to talk to animals.
As a young lad we'll hope that he gains a bit of experience but we've got out hopes that he'll carry on from the improvement that he's shown recently.
"He hasn't had the best of runs so far in the tournament and to come out and play the way he did - get a hundred in the fashion that he did - shows a lot of character in the lad and I'm happy for him, " Porterfield said afterwards.
He is a really good lad and has been brilliant during my time here in terms of as a human being.
When a small, impish lad by the name of Phillips turned up at Southampton's training ground in 1994, they did not believe he was a striker.
Of these, Papillon has been retired and will not run, while the participation of Davids Lad hinges on a final appeal against a six-week suspension.
"We are not in a hurry to sell him certainly, but when a lad has the ability to play for one of the six top clubs in the world we would never stand in his way, " he said.
He's a confident lad and I think that's started to rub off on to quite a few of the players.
McManus' prospects in the Champion Hurdle were also boosted when Like-A-Butterfly edged out Limestone Lad in the finish of the month at Leopardstown.
"To compound that and say that Gary Cahill was cheating in trying to gain an advantage of a penalty, that's one thing that lad would never do, " said Coyle.
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OK, I exaggerate but this sort of argument has been made on since Ned Ludd was a lad.
Casey recounted that as a lad, he originally wanted to learn about paleontology, or the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life.
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"He's a big lad, but he's also very mobile, " Lineen said of the 24-year-old named this week in his Scotland A squad for the IRB Nations Cup in Romania.
The lad of the title (Michael Cera) lives in Toronto, in a place that looks like a neglected nuclear bunker.
She said after his death the family received hundreds of letters from people who wanted to say he was a "lovely lad".
Partly because of his stammer, brought on by a fall through a roof as a lad, and partly because people from Hesket didn't talk too much as a rule, he didn't care to meet strangers.
Sir Terry Farrel, a Newcastle lad whose own contributions to northern style include the masterplan for the rebuilt north bank of the Tyne, and the Deep, an aquarium in Hull, asserts that the best buildings have always been in the north.
Shortly after his Bruce Lee escapade he founded Dennis Publishing, one of the early entrants in the lucrative computer magazine field and a pioneer in "lad" magazines, starting with Maxim.
"We lost a lad who I thought might make it through, but we've still got a lot of Asian talent playing in our youth teams... so we're hoping they'll be able to progress, " says Mr Lawn.
Tristan (Charlie Cox), is a sweet, diffident young man who, as an infant, was delivered to his father in a basket. (The lad's true identity will come as a surprise only to those unfamiliar with the works of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or Walt Disney).
As a local lad, I know the club well and the rivalries as I also played in one or two of their derbies when I was at Leeds.
"For somebody who hasn't played a great deal of football at his club, I think he's shown great faith in the lad, " said the former Everton defender.
But he had his own sort of magic that lifted the lad from the slums through the American educational system to eventually a scholarship to Harvard, where he gained a doctorate.
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