Example sentences of "[prep] a girl ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet these lines contain an anger which is encountered again and again in her work , that from the constraints of a girl 's upbringing to the tyrannies of marriage , there is small hope of a woman achieving the life she wants . |
| 2 | A quality of obsession and loss links photographs in the series — the black wings of a girl 's hair , the flying debris of a Tokyo rubbish tip , black shapes in the sky like a wave of planes . |
| 3 | But no sooner had they got to the city than they heard a loud shriek of a girl 's voice . |
| 4 | ‘ operations whose implications bring up the question of a girl 's right to privacy about her sexual life . |
| 5 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
| 6 | Someone who knew about these things had told Maman how the perpetual wearing of boots might encourage the proper shape of a girl 's ankles . |
| 7 | Their conversation was interrupted by the familiar sound of a girl 's badly-acted laughter from behind the bead curtain which led to the interior of the brothel , punctuated by the growling of a man who is under the illusion that he is cock of the dunghill . |
| 8 | From the darkness where the thicker growth of box began , a shadowy figure slipped out to join him , and he saw the oval of a girl 's face as a paler gleam above her dark coat . |
| 9 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 10 | In the hands of a writer as skilled in her craft as Nadine Gordimer , with her ability to shape a character and her eye for detail , the tracing of a girl 's development through adolescence and early adulthood might be enough of a story in itself . |
| 11 | The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |
| 12 | In Barat et Haimet the sexual innuendo of Barat approaching Marie 's bed in the dark , and successfully imitating her husband , Travers , is difficult to miss , and since we may know that bacon , the term generally used for the meat that is stolen and stolen back over and over again , can also be used of a girl 's thighs , there is a strong suggestion that the actions are really a sexual allegory : is it Marie that the three men are trying to appropriate ? |
| 13 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 14 | Onlookers paying £40 a head might have disagreed , for though the clothes were gorgeous and the models undeniably pretty , the atmosphere was more like that of a girls ' boarding school than an haute couture show . |
| 15 | Peacock 's Crochet Castle was surrounded by gravel workings ; Disraeli 's Bentham was decaying behind Ministry of Defence barbed wire ; and the lawns of Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park were engulfed by the classrooms of a girls ' school . |
| 16 | She was the headmistress of a girls ' school . |
| 17 | ‘ When I was 16 , I sang outside the window of a girls ' school . |
| 18 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 19 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 20 | Fair haired lad … skin like a girl 's . |
| 21 | His fingers were rather long , slender like a girl 's . |
| 22 | Such a pretty yet elegant pressed flower picture as this one would make an ideal gift for a girl 's eighteenth birthday , especially if it matches the decor of her bedroom . |
| 23 | A thin wedge of what looked like mud caked between the heel and the sole of the left shoe ; the pattern of blood stiffening the fine fawn cashmere of the sweater ; the half-open mouth fixed in a rictus between a smile and a sneer ; the dead eyes seeming as he watched to shrink into their sockets ; the left hand with its long pale fingers , curved and delicate as a girl 's ; the palm of the right hand thick with blood . |
| 24 | They start talking about ‘ trampolining ’ which is the art of bouncing through a girl 's tights until you hit home . |
| 25 | It cracked to snatch a candle from between a girl 's teeth . |
| 26 | After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement . |
| 27 | With a thrill of triumph he spotted a youth 's hand under a girl 's skirt ; but her low , appallingly pleased giggle hollowed out his solar plexus . |
| 28 | Instructions I copied out from a girls ' annual for 1954 . |
| 29 | All such kinsmen are , from a girl 's point of view , either " brothers " or " cross-cousins " and she may not marry a " brother " . |
| 30 | If she is a teacher in a girl 's school and even one man is employed there , people start saying there is a man there among the women . |