Example sentences of "[prep] [art] boys ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home . |
| 2 | Grant , it 's not tonight it 's May the eighth , the eighth of May , your thing for the Boys ' Brigade . |
| 3 | ( I had a meeting of an advisory committee at the Bodleian at three , which was likely to be acrimonious and prolonged , and I simply had to buy something for the boys ' dinner first . ) |
| 4 | Also I 've got to get something for the boys ' dinner first … |
| 5 | AN all-star team led by former Northern Ireland and Manchester United star Norman Whiteside is to play a fund raising match for the Boys ' Model team . |
| 6 | The heat , the danger , the moment were unforeseeable when she and Lally , arm in arm in giggling familiarity , watched from the nursery window for the boys ' arrival . |
| 7 | When the time came , she was similarly firm about the boys ' schooling . |
| 8 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 9 | Why not , my wife says , knock a hole through the boys ' bedroom wall , pinch a three foot six strip off it and make a new landing passage and extend the walk-in cupboard , forward to take up the old landing and sideways to build a space out to the main part of the stairs . |
| 10 | There was something so constantly curious about the headmaster of the Boys ' Wimbledon Day Islamic Independent School that , after a while , you stopped wondering where , or indeed whether , he had acquired a degree in anything , and surrendered to that mellifluous , actorish voice . |
| 11 | Can we go a little bit into the background of the boys ' ploughing match , Marcus ? |
| 12 | The difficulty she was having in making sense of the boys ' education was illustrated by the packet of letters she had brought to school in the morning . |
| 13 | Wally Watmough was the loud-mouthed fat boy who had once beaten Frankie almost senseless in a fist-fight behind the old air-raid shelter in a corner of the boys ' playground . |
| 14 | Observation in labs and workshops highlighted the depressing effect on girls ' performance of the boys ' claim to science as their subject . |
| 15 | The authority has considered turning two of the boys ' schools into co-educational schools . |
| 16 | Too much had been taken from the ethos of the boys ' schools , including blazers and ties , which are hangovers from male attire of the Edwardian era . |
| 17 | , Sir William Alexander ( 1854–1914 ) , founder of the Boys ' Brigade , was born 27 October 1854 at Pennyland House , near Thurso , Caithness , the eldest in the family of three sons and a daughter of David Smith of Pennyland , a director of the Labuan Coal Company in China , and his wife Harriet , daughter of Alexander Fraser , merchant , of Glasgow . |
| 18 | William Smith , a hard-pressed Sunday-school teacher , started the first company of the Boys ' Brigade on 4 October 1883 at the North Woodside Mission Hall of the wealthy College Free Church in the west end of Glasgow . |
| 19 | [ Frederick P. Gibbon , William A. Smith of The Boys ' Brigade , 1934 ; Roger S. Peacock , Pioneer of Boyhood , 1954 ; John Springhall ( ed . ) , |
| 20 | Brian Fraser , and Michael Hoare , Sure and Stedfast : a History of The Boys ' Brigade , 1883 to 1983 , 1983 ; BB archives in BB headquarters , Glasgow . ] |
| 21 | Reporting restrictions were not lifted and the magistrates made an order preventing publication of the boys ' names or anything which could identify them . |
| 22 | In that case , at any rate , there was little question of the boys ' dispute creating a relationship of permanent hostility between the two groups ; and this was in part the consequence of the wider peace , sanctioned by authority , which generally prevailed in Libya . |
| 23 | Thousands of pounds have been raised over the past few months by the local community and by Wirral council colleagues of the boys ' father Bob , who works in the highways and building services department . |
| 24 | Inevitably , perhaps , the contralto Jard van Nes is rather closely balanced but the positioning of the boys ' voices and women 's chorus are well judged . |
| 25 | Now we have a clearer image of the boys ' war to destruct things and the theme is emerging already . |
| 26 | They 're being coached by one of the country 's best female players , but they 've also got the support of MOST of the boys ' team . |
| 27 | Other groups , like the Boys ' League of Honour and the Church Lads ' Brigade , addressed the leisure activities of working-class boys , setting up night schools and organizing sport and mutual improvement societies to counter the idleness which was the first step towards dissipation and self-abuse . |
| 28 | Our makeshift seat had consisted of cases of wine while bottles of brandy were distributed liberally amongst the boys ' bedding , none of which had been declared to us , of course . |
| 29 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |
| 30 | TAKE TWO : Dramatised documentary about a boys ' school , to be shown late evening . |