Possessives

• dream: The Big Match was the answer to every boyhood's dreams.

Adjective modifier

• early: We traced him from his early boyhood to the time of the sighting.

• own: He was on the point of advancing some profitable reflections on this head, but the memory of his own boyhood checked him.

Modifies a noun

• hero: Then the clichés about playing for boyhood heroes came spilling out.

• dream: Photo: Will Potter's boyhood dream come true!

• ambition: Lang's original boyhood ambition in Vienna was to be an architect.

• friend: The two men will almost certainly have been boyhood friends.

• days.: He knew it from boyhood days. He knew the local waters which is important, if you raid a town.

• memory: I used my boyhood memories to find our way around the town.