Example sentences of "of girls " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of girls danced enthusiastically and several others tapped their feet . |
| 2 | An implement was used by mothers — apparently the main punishment agents — on 15 per cent of boys and 3 per cent of girls . |
| 3 | Ye are a great pair of girls . |
| 4 | A group of girls decked with medals danced . |
| 5 | Because of the shortages of girls for nursing , many ads were appearing in the daily papers . |
| 6 | Brought up from infancy by a screen of girls , and now growing confidently in Rose 's shade , he escaped the fear of Moran . |
| 7 | Moran was either mowing a new field or tossing the field ahead of them with the tedder but he joined the band of girls under the shade of one of the big beeches when Rose came with the basket and can . |
| 8 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 9 | By lunchtime he had narrowed his search down to three out of the dozens of girls missing in the London area . |
| 10 | A couple of girls go past and they got this red sparkly stuff wrapped round their necks — you know , a sort of silvery string they hang on Christmas trees . |
| 11 | A similar focus on the war 's effect in shattering class barriers is present in In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , where the trigger to unity is a torpedoed destroyer rather than a crashed plane , The Gentle Sex ( 1943 ) , which follows a group of women as they are trained to become competent fighters , and Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) , which brings together a mixed group of girls in an aircraft engineering factory . |
| 12 | In her primping performance as Amy Johnson in They Flew Alone ( 1942 ) , Anna Neagle is allowed to express none of the deeper motivations for her character 's decision to defy convention and take up flying , and the film never tries to make anything of its contrast between Johnson 's individualism and its concluding images of girls marching , clearly anything but individuals . |
| 13 | While for boys the ‘ justice ’ rather than the ‘ welfare ’ model prevails , between 70 and 80 per cent of girls in care in this country are there as a result of parents or step-parents calling in the social services because they feel their daughters to be ‘ beyond parental control ’ or ‘ morally at risk ’ . |
| 14 | I know plenty of girls who do not know what marriage means until the bond is sealed and there is no escape . |
| 15 | He wanted to have a succession of girls to show off , too . |
| 16 | The trouble is , a lot of girls will never be thin ; it 's just not natural to them . |
| 17 | Boys seem to make an effort only if they are going into a situation where they know they might meet someone they fancy , whereas lots of girls I know will put on make-up just to go to the local shop ! |
| 18 | I think this is about our physical boundaries again , as it was in Alison 's story , showing how fragile the self-image of girls can be , how easily invaded by others — and also , how difficult it is to like your body if it is curvaceous , if you are naturally fleshy , fat , large-breasted or pear-shaped , as many of us are . |
| 19 | Later , at the Palladium 's stage door after the show , a gang of girls lay in wait . |
| 20 | We are just a bunch of girls , ’ said one 15-year-old from the Ursuline convent . |
| 21 | They do n't actually make customers queue outside in chilly Mayfair , but the greeting system obliges everyone who lacks star quality to stand , cap in hand , under the supercilious gaze of a giggle of girls who fiddle ineffectually with placement lists on a trolley . |
| 22 | We are just a bunch of girls , ’ said one 15 year old from the Ursuline convent . |
| 23 | Not only was he unable to play with his father , put on loud music or bring friends home , he also became aware of an emotional gap which meant that he could never raise the topics of girls or male friends . |
| 24 | The rapidly rising number of girls receiving middle and higher education , coinciding with the growth of urban bureaucratic and commercial activities , has led to a corresponding increase in the number entering clerical and professional or semi-professional employment , generally prior to marriage and temporary or permanent withdrawal from the labour force . |
| 25 | The House of Lords , to which the LEA appealed after defeat in both the High Court and Court of Appeal , held that the denial of selective single-sex education to a higher proportion of girls than boys was unlawful sex discrimination . |
| 26 | The National Curriculum will , however , give a greater number of girls exposure to the physical sciences , in which as pupils and employees in industry they are still under-represented . |
| 27 | Girls are underrepresented in the exclusion statistics — which would imply that there is unlawful sex discrimination , until one takes account of the well-documented fact that the behaviour of girls and boys and girls at school differs . |
| 28 | But then she was different from the vast majority of girls at Templeton 's , being of a more refined , though certainly not prissy , nature . |
| 29 | Even more bitter were the attacks on the behaviour of the demi-mondaines who did not hesitate to parade ‘ the profits of their vice ’ in front of decent folk and whose example , so it was said , influenced young women of good society : ‘ Among young women who count amongst the best bred and the best brought up , there are those who do not hesitate to copy the manners and behaviour of girls of easy virtue . ’ |
| 30 | I 've met a lot of girls in Aspen . |