Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] girls ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1900 she helped to found a hostel at Littlehampton for working girls ' holidays . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , with our ideas and work dismissed , heterosexual women colleagues are welcomed as the ones who can provide the model of acceptable girls ' work . |
| 3 | It is only through feminist psychology 's attention to work like Ladner 's Afrocentric sociology , that it comes to consider specific features of black girls ' socialization in their families and communities ( Williams 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Wondering what to wear when the weather gets hot in London is a big part of many girls ' and women 's daily life , my own included . |
| 5 | She left her girls ' boarding school ( St Mary 's , Calne ) without any notion of saving the planet , and did a number of well-bred girls ' things in London and Paris — Harrods ' toy department , a cordon bleu course , door-to-door sales , modelling — before starting what she regards as her first proper job , in an advertising agency 's information department . |
| 6 | This could have the effect of improving girls ' spatial visualisation skills — and may also , directly or indirectly , favourably affect their learning of mathematics . |
| 7 | He had never thought to find himself discussing such a thing with a single young woman , but he had heard of American girls ' frankness , and he supposed that this was a sample of it . |
| 8 | She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage . |
| 9 | Often you even come across portraits of Kurt Cobain in teenage girls ' weekly mags . |
| 10 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 11 | For the first time , it carries cricket averages from two girls ' school teams , Roedean and Denstone . |
| 12 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 13 | Police were called to Highsted Girls ' Grammar School at Sittingbourne , Kent . |
| 14 | Closures were mainly among private girls ' schools and included : Berisford House , Eastbourne , 35 redundancies ; St Stephen 's School , Broadstairs , Kent , 36 ; St Brandon 's School , Cleveland , 56 ; St Audrie 's , Somerset , four ; Oakdeane School , Beaconsfield , Bucks , 40 ; Humanby Hall , North Yorkshire , 28 ; and College of Sacred Hearts , Weymouth , Dorset , seven . |