Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] girl " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a passing girl suddenly swerved towards him and threw her arms round his waist . |
| 2 | You do n't know how much a growing girl needs , etc . |
| 3 | A DRINK-DRIVER was jailed for just four months yesterday for mowing down a nine-year-old girl . |
| 4 | Cos she was put in that job when she was only a young girl and she 's never brought any shame or anything , not like the young ones are doing now ! |
| 5 | Er yes , she was only a young girl when I first kne when I |
| 6 | I was only a little girl at the time . |
| 7 | I was only a little girl when I went to my first funeral . |
| 8 | ‘ She is only a little girl and could easily have been attacked while she was standing there alone . ’ |
| 9 | You 've got to believe me , mister , I 'm only a workin' girl without a job . ’ |
| 10 | Her father said , ‘ Yes , Goldie 's no longer a little girl ! ’ |
| 11 | Sandra ( normally a quiet girl ) thumps James because he has jogged her and spoilt her drawing of a tuba . |
| 12 | and she was just a working girl , you know , and it was a worry to her as well . |
| 13 | I am just a poor girl ; what do I know of the sea-king 's palace ? |
| 14 | I was just a young girl from a small planet and I felt very unimportant here . |
| 15 | Just a compassionate girl working amongst dirt and poverty . |
| 16 | I am just a little girl , I have n't even started my periods yet and little girls can tantrum louder and then can sulk deeper than anything else in the universe . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've changed a great deal , Angharad , ’ he said , ‘ you were just a little girl when I finished my apprenticeship and now look at you . ’ |
| 18 | I had always been singing energetic music from the time I was just a little girl , and when I started getting songs like Sweet Nothings , I loved those songs , and I wanted to sing them . |
| 19 | The long and the short and the tall da da da da da da da da da da da da da When Mark was just a little girl , he asked his mummy Bless your beautiful hide wherever you may be . |
| 20 | A nineteen-year-old Coventry woman who disowned any interest in feminism or politics — " I 'm just a fun girl , " — said she could never remember anybody talking about " the clitoris or orgasms ' . |
| 21 | Nutty had done it , for God 's sake , and she was just a fat girl ( well , not so fat any longer , but still a girl ) . |
| 22 | She was not a small girl , was reasonably athletic for a woman , but there was little she could do to fight off a determined man , particularly when she was neither mentally nor physically prepared for such a brutal assault . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're not a bad-looking girl . |
| 24 | In Arequipa I had watched women in the church of Santo Domingo giggle happily as they dressed the Virgin for a procession ; , behaving much as if they had been preparing a girl for a wedding , not a poor girl though , rather one Velasquez might be called upon to paint . |
| 25 | She was not a young girl any more . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're not a new girl any more , you 've been here nearly a day . |
| 27 | She was not a petite girl , she never had been ; she was strong and healthy from years of watching her diet and hard , sweaty workouts in the gym . |
| 28 | What we want is fighting talk , and fighting spirit , I want Macca to prove me wrong that he is not a big girl 's blouse . |
| 29 | But here was Mick telling him something , he was talking about a young girl , not a little girl , a young girl who was going to be a secretary . |
| 30 | I 'm not a little girl any more . |