Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] girl " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she was too thin by far for a man 's taste , yet the one at her side today was a toff and no mistake , and it was obvious he cared about the girl by the way he kept looking at her with concern in his eyes . |
| 2 | ( To Nick [ disguised as a girl ] ) Suppose I made an indecent suggestion to you ? |
| 3 | ‘ If you mean about the girl in the car , she says there was no girl . |
| 4 | Theseus , having been helped by his friend Peirithous to carry off the girl Helen , in his turn accompanied Peirithous to Hades in an effort to abduct Persephone . |
| 5 | In all cases the broken ore was allowed to fall about the girls ' feet from where it was shovelled by the younger boys and girls and wheeled to the respective piles or hoppers , At all stages waste was thrown aside ready for tramming or barrowing to the spoil heaps . |
| 6 | The relationship that develops between the girls and the workers is quite unique . |
| 7 | Ndembu say that the sapling 's pliancy stands for the girl 's immaturity and youth : the tree is sometimes stated to be the novice 's ‘ matrilineage ’ , and its leaves her ‘ children ’ . |
| 8 | Part of it was nerves and excitement , he knew , but at this stage he knew nearly everything there was to know about the girl . |
| 9 | McAllister swallowed when he bent between the girl 's extended legs , and Effie shrieked aloud , throwing herself about , trying to avoid his gently probing hands . |
| 10 | A man was walking past the girls across the street , looking at and talking to them in turn ; then he went off with one of them . |
| 11 | When the day for her departure arrived nobody could be heard for the weeping and wailing of the girls . |
| 12 | At 18 , she decides after her affair with the French teacher that outwardly she is a girl , she looks like a girl , and she ca n't go through life thinking she 's a boy . |
| 13 | He was walking with a girl , a dark haired one with a red coat and white boots . |
| 14 | She was walking with a girl who was quite a problematic and attention-seeking sort of person . |
| 15 | And what she saw was a handsome dark-haired young man who sat laughing with a girl in a bright green dress . |
| 16 | He would flirt with the girls who sold them to him and pretend they were a present for his mother . |
| 17 | She looked both wary and defiant ; well , people often did , faced with the police , but it was an unusual combination to find in a girl from the confident middle class . |
| 18 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 19 | ‘ Did you have something you wished to communicate to the girl , Caroline ? ’ |
| 20 | People going out of the crush for a breather and intimate talk away from the throng could linger without the girls needing the pretty shawls they had brought out to cover their bare arms . |
| 21 | A chap may think he 's in control of himself but if he 's really attracted to a girl , it 's not so easy to stop at … well , just kissing . ’ |
| 22 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 23 | In Chiswick , provision was made for Boys to receive Secondary School education , in the extension that had been added to the Girls School in Burlington Lane , and the School became the Chiswick Grammar School . |
| 24 | A local authority applied for a care order relating to a girl who was nearly four years old . |
| 25 | As the flames became more intense , he said he shouted to the girls to get out . |
| 26 | The return system , we , we say to the girls they must come back but they 're to be incorporated within the round . |
| 27 | Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there . |
| 28 | The lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , who was here alone . |
| 29 | Alyssia had looked at the girl in amazement , beginning to feel disproportionately angry at this unexpected anticlimax . |
| 30 | The first half of the novel is dominated by the girl 's death from leukaemia . |