Example sentences of "girl ' [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The same went for all the climbing and jumping across the back court , over high walls and coal bunkers , that we did in the girls ' gang . |
2 | It always gave Anne goosebumps , especially when the unidentified male voice answered the girls ' plea for Mr Sandman to bring them a dream with a drawn-out , ever-so-slightly creepy ‘ ye-e-es ? ’ |
3 | A SEA-LIFE centre is trying to cure a kinky fish of staring at girls ' breasts . |
4 | The pop singer , Morrissey , was so astounded to discover that some girls ' breasts are bigger than others that he wrote a song about it . |
5 | He had never thought to find himself discussing such a thing with a single young woman , but he had heard of American girls ' frankness , and he supposed that this was a sample of it . |
6 | McKinlay won the British Girls ' Championship as a 16 year-old in 1989 , and Moodie , 17 , claimed the British Under-18 , Scottish Under-21 and the Wilson PGA Junior Stroke Play titles in a glorious August last year . |
7 | A deal of debate centred around her decision to defend her title in the English Girls ' Championship at Edgbaston instead of playing in the British Women 's Open at Ferndown . |
8 | MYRA McKinlay , who won the British Girls ' Championship at Carlisle , and Janice Moodie , a losing semi-finalist , are both pupils of Ken Stevely , the professional at Cawder . |
9 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
10 | As he watched his gifted little daughter sobbing her heart out prior to taking the tee in the Girls ' Championship at Leven in 1975 , he told her that she must either play without fuss or stop playing altogether . |
11 | In the girls ' peer group there was more use of consensual suggesting forms like ‘ lets ’ . |
12 | He wrote girls ' phone numbers in the back of the book so that she would think the stars were for something else if she snooped around . |
13 | Cos really that 'd pay for the girls ' nightshirts . |
14 | During the project there was a shift away from locating the issue as one of girls ' motivation towards attempts to change the nature of school science . |
15 | The school can boast of the first secondary school girls ' rugby league team . |
16 | The under-16 team recently picked up an award as the most sporting girls ' rugby team and have completed a very successful season ; eight girls have been selected for the Lancashire under-18 team and three for the under-13 team . |
17 | With their recently acquired wealth from the girls ' success , the Polgars have been able to buy an adjoining apartment to make one multi-roomed home . |
18 | Jennie recognized that the world could be at any of her Girls ' feet but she also understood that sometimes the youngsters were too scared to travel abroad . |
19 | In all cases the broken ore was allowed to fall about the girls ' feet from where it was shovelled by the younger boys and girls and wheeled to the respective piles or hoppers , At all stages waste was thrown aside ready for tramming or barrowing to the spoil heaps . |
20 | In the course of a remarkable year , Mhairi , who played off plus-two , won both the British and Belgian Girls ' Championships , the Scottish Girls ' Closed Championship and the Helen Holm Trophy . |
21 | Poly Styrene wore plastic and shrieked , the lead singer of the phallocentrically named group Penetration was a woman called Pauline and there was the only all-female punk groups , The Slits , who were years ahead of their time , wearing girls ' dresses , subverting traditional female rock images and appearing on the cover of the NME dressed only in loincloths and smeared in mud . |
22 | The men wore the facings of distant hunts ; the girls ' dresses were short and narrow as striped rushes . |
23 | He could not admit to his own heart that Surere was involved with the girls ' killings ; though perhaps — the dark thought was there — Huy was afraid to admit such a thing was possible , as he would then , however innocently , have played a part in their deaths . |
24 | Instead of going into the green room , we went to the girls ' dressing room . |
25 | ‘ Science ’ and ‘ technology ’ cover a very wide range of occupations , and in practice policy makers may have little idea of either the extent of skill shortages or how to redirect girls ' energies towards these . |
26 | Rachel Sherrington , swimming in the 1979 girls ' backstroke , also won the silver and followed up with bronze in the freestyle . |
27 | Jessica Wright was fourth in the junior girls ' 200m backstroke and Catherine Denard and Beth Grant were both sixth in the 1977 girls ' backstroke and 1978 girls ' butterfly respectively . |
28 | A Roger Rabbit-style cartoon , Evil Toons , released on video this month , promotes itself like this : ‘ Innocently the four girls unleash a nymphomaniacal cartoon monster from the pages of a spell-book which intends to scare more than the girls ' pants off . ’ |
29 | Girls ' subject choices , their lack of competition with boys , their restricted career choices , etc. can be interpreted as self chosen , rational ( even if misguided ) responses to the position of women in society . |
30 | These examples indicate some of the features of girl friendly science : it builds on girls ' interests , not just boys ' ; it explicitly encourages girls to see themselves as potential scientists , and it includes some of the social and human implications and applications of science . |