Example sentences of "a girls ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London .
2 There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks …
3 She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy .
4 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 .
5 In 1916 the 2nd Earl of Feversham was killed at the Battle of the Somme and the house became a girls ' school until 1895 .
6 Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there .
7 Eden Hall was extensively rebuilt in 1935 or thereabouts , and much of the original fabric removed at that time , today it is a girls ' school .
8 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 .
9 The house became a girls ' school until 1980 when the grounds were developed for housing .
10 The wartime routine was enlivened by a series of afternoon musical concerts for secondary school pupils at the Davenport Theatre ; by potato-picking at harvest time ; by Christmas work at the General Post Office ; by firewatching duties with the ARP , both at School and at Stockport High School ( the latter venue being very popular , a girls ' school and not to be confused with its short-lived 19th century boys ' predecessor ) ; and by the various fund-raising " War Weeks " : " War Weapons Week " in 1941 raised £5,729 ; " School Warships " in 1942 £5,900 ; " Wings for Victory " in 1943 £10,571 ; " Salute the Soldier " in 1944 £10,785 ; and " Thanksgiving Week " in 1945 raised £14,100 , and also won the boys an extra half-holiday .
11 In her books this is to be found at its most extreme in Sara Crewe ( 1888 ) — expanded , following the stage version , as The Little Princess ( 1905 ) — a Cinderella story where a bullied little drudge at a girls ' school is restored to riches and esteem and the tyrannical headmistress humiliated .
12 However many feathers must have been ruffled in the process Eva survived and received a further vote of confidence iii her leadership skills when she was appointed principal of Usher Institute , a girls ' school with a growing reputation , south of Howard in Matabeleland .
13 She was the headmistress of a girls ' school .
14 ‘ When I was 16 , I sang outside the window of a girls ' school .
15 Sue asked Derek to a girls ' night out and he turned up as Diane .
16 ‘ Arthur 's Cousin Amy , ’ responded his sister firmly , ‘ works as a secretary at a girls ' boarding school .
17 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 .
18 She got a first at Girton and taught , for most of her life , in a girls ' boarding school .
19 There is also a Girls ' Choir and a Primary Boys ' Choir .
20 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 .
21 Her mother disowned her and she was sent , as was the custom then , to live out her pregnancy in a girls ' hostel near Cambridge , doing housework for her keep .
22 But when Coffin checked in the records , intact but dusty , he found that the comic was not a comic but a girls ' magazine .
23 After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement .
24 She also did voluntary work in a girls ' club , which brought her into contact with the local women 's trade union council , the Women 's Co-operative Guild , and ultimately the Labour party .
25 Later she helped to run a girls ' club in Whitechapel .
26 A 12-YEAR-OLD boy who injured a finger in a heavy door when he and a classmate made a late-night visit to a girls ' dormitory during an educational outing , is suing Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council for £5,250 .
27 I remember some other kids , a girls ' dorm , green-painted walls with a red border half-way up , a stiff roller-towel next to a wash-hand-basin , the scent of carbolic soap , hugs from a kind , laughing lady with large arms and the comforting smell of B.O. , and a small , quiet , wiry man who always seemed to be sweeping and winking .
28 Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten .
29 THE body of a new-born baby was found yesterday in a locker at a girls ' grammar school .
30 Another student , who had attended a girls ' grammar , felt that there were important differences between single-sex schools and mixed schools .
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