Example sentences of "one [prep] the girls " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was always one for the girls and as soon as he was a bit older , instead of the dogs he always seemed to have besotted females hanging round him . |
| 2 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 3 | ‘ Get Mrs Long , ’ one of the girls was ordered . |
| 4 | As I search for it on the pavement , one of the girls says , ‘ Look at the yid licking the gutters for pennies . ’ |
| 5 | One of the girls had to come to the door to call him . |
| 6 | ‘ I got broke down , ’ he whispered apologetically as he slipped in beside Moran , putting his oily hand on the head of one of the girls . |
| 7 | His silence and inertia would have only made him more lifelike and I would , at once , have been treated as ‘ one of the girls ’ . |
| 8 | Hermione Farthingale was one of the girls who had already been chosen and foolishly , I realized later , or maybe wisely , I partnered David and Hermione together because Hermione was extremely beautiful . |
| 9 | The youngest daughter Mary , a gifted academic in later life , was still at one of the Girls ' Public School Trust schools at Wimbledon , and the only son , Lancelot , was at Merchant Taylors ' School . |
| 10 | Mungo wondered whether she had been one of the girls who was ‘ sweet ’ on Jos . |
| 11 | One of the girls , the plump one with the freckles and the missing front tooth , looked very plain and dowdy now that she had lost all her pretty blonde curls . |
| 12 | One of the girls in Hut 6 at Bletchley lost her food ration-book . |
| 13 | I returned to my base temple , bought a Coke from one of the girls whose face lit up at another biscuit ; and chatted with the fleet-of-foot , richly named Flavio Chuquiwillca Huallpa and his boy companion . |
| 14 | He points the knife at the heart of one of the girls . |
| 15 | Marler was standing at the reception counter , talking to one of the girls . |
| 16 | ‘ Very likely just waiting for one of the girls from the theatre . ’ |
| 17 | One Head Girl found her team circling round the stage once as rehearsed but then galloping straight off stage to the lavatories ; apparently one of the Girls had realized that she had a sudden attack of diarrhoea and had acted with unheard-of initiative . |
| 18 | There was one never-to-be-forgotten occasion when one of the girls , slightly the worse for wear , staggered in and , evidently in dire straits , spent a penny in the fire bucket which was kept brim full of water in the middle of the hut . |
| 19 | Whilst the famous photographs of the Cottingley fairies , taken in 1917 , have been admitted not to be genuine , it is equally clear from the researches of author Joe Cooper that at least one of the girls concerned , Frances Griffiths , did see fairies in Cottingley Glen , as did Geoffrey Hodson . |
| 20 | The boy with the vacant chair then winks at one of the girls who then tries to get to the other boy without her partner noticing . |
| 21 | One of the girls ran off so there were only four |
| 22 | Lee jumped and opened her eyes to find herself alone in the restroom apart from one of the girls who worked there , who was leaning over her and gently shaking her shoulder . |
| 23 | From the time of that trial , one of the girls , already disturbed , became more and more so . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's one of the girls , so she is . |
| 25 | Not particularly shocking in this day and age , perhaps , but one of the girls was only sixteen , two years below the legal age limit for having sex in Georgia — and he video-taped all the hot action , including some lesbian love-making between underage Jan Parsons and twenty-three-year-old Tara Seburt . |
| 26 | One of the girls at school assured me that unbaptised infants were sent not to hell , but to limbo . |
| 27 | It 's our work around heterosexism which makes a direct and daily challenge to them , and in a sense this work is a pure act of coming out in that it no longer allows them to treat us as one of the girls ( or boys ) who is really just like them . |
| 28 | One of the girls he worked with in the office wrote a humorous poem . |
| 29 | Once I remember having to work the switchboard when one of the girls was away on holiday — awful — I kept cutting people off . |
| 30 | ‘ I know how we could settle this , ’ said one of the girls . |