Example sentences of "a girls ['s] school " 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 . |