Example sentences of "[prep] [art] girls [unc] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She was the headmistress of a girls ' school . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was 16 , I sang outside the window of a girls ' school . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks … |
| 6 | On 18 November 1898 Miss Smart was appointed to the Girls ' School at £50 rising to £60 per annum , and Miss Townsend appointed Certificated Assistant at £65 , rising to £75 per annum . |
| 7 | In schools belonging to the Girls ' Schools Association , the average annual fees were 6300 for boarders , and 3300 for day pupils ( ISIS , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 . |