Example sentences of "[art] boy ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was almost a tragedy in 1905 when a major fire broke out one night in the early hours of the morning while 44 boys in the boys ' dormitories were asleep . |
| 2 | As a juvenile romanticist Kingston , like his contemporary Ballantyne , used the device of the intrusive author accepted in his time and , besides , the didacticism expected in books for the young , didacticism made easier by the continuity and the extent of time afforded by serial publication in the boys ' magazines of the period . |
| 3 | He considered whether the boys ' acts broke the chain of causation . |
| 4 | As it was very likely that if the boys escaped , nearby property would be damaged , the boys ' acts did not break the chain of causation . |
| 5 | When the police called in the boys ' parents , one of them accused Mr Wisson of kidnapping . |
| 6 | Before too long heterosexual women had in fact taken over and they began to encourage men into the organization and to instigate the mixing of boys and girls into provision previously available to young women on their own ( but preserving the boys ' clubs ) . |
| 7 | Frankie is seen with the Boys ' Clubs ' Nigel Voules and fans Phylis Gumburd , Jackie salmons , Mavis Bates , Hazel Kidwell and Chris Lester . |
| 8 | Today the owners of the horse were unavailable for comment but their solicitor said that while they accepted the horse broke loose they do not accept liability and are disputing any claim the horse caused the boys ' injuries . |
| 9 | It is interesting to speculate whether the boys ' attitudes are a result of their own experiences or are simply a reflection of the attitudes of the adults in their household . |
| 10 | In the boys ' groups , any recognition that images of girls might have a different value from images of boys was met with intense embarrassment . |
| 11 | He smiled , padded back into the room , kissed the boys ' foreheads . |
| 12 | It was alleged that he touched the boys ' genitals , put his arm around them and kissed them on the lips . |
| 13 | The justification given could be that it is easier to control girls than boys , and therefore the ‘ stronger ’ teachers should be given the more difficult classes , i.e. the boys ' classes . |
| 14 | Police said there were no suspicious circumstances in the boys ' deaths . |
| 15 | Reporting restrictions were not lifted and the magistrates made an order preventing publication of the boys ' names or anything which could identify them . |
| 16 | Before we learned the boys ' names they were referred to as the fair boy ; a positive attribute , and the fat boy ; a physical defect . |
| 17 | The authority has considered turning two of the boys ' schools into co-educational schools . |
| 18 | Too much had been taken from the ethos of the boys ' schools , including blazers and ties , which are hangovers from male attire of the Edwardian era . |
| 19 | Our laughter , together with the boys ' cries and whimpers . |
| 20 | He said that he much preferred the money they could afford for clothing to go onto the boys ' backs , and onto her . |
| 21 | The boys ' antics are mere chicken feed to the Dynasty company , whose security chief Keith Heading ( a glowering John Diehl ) has a far bigger fraud on the boil involving stolen cards , dead colleagues and warehouses full of gleaming Porsches . |
| 22 | If there was anything unpleasant the first thing in the boys ' minds was ‘ not to worry mother ’ . |
| 23 | 's ( singular ) or s' ( plural ) as in the boy 's books = the books which belong to the boy and the boys ' books — the books which belong to the boys . |
| 24 | I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits . |
| 25 | There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land . |
| 26 | Inevitably , perhaps , the contralto Jard van Nes is rather closely balanced but the positioning of the boys ' voices and women 's chorus are well judged . |
| 27 | These groups are the boys ' gangs that flourish most conspicuously in the ‘ delinquent neighbourhoods ’ of our large American cities . |