Example sentences of "a boy ' " in BNC.
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1 | Coincidence or whatever , in the newspaper one day the following week , there was an advertisement for an art history teacher at a boys ' public school ( that 's a private one in this country ) in Oxfordshire . |
2 | In southern India The Body Shop has provided the means to set up a boys ' town for destitute youngsters . |
3 | Mills died on Melia 's 20th birthday and he recalls that when he was a child , Freddie was a boys ' idol and boys used to pretend to be him . |
4 | In comparison , the other visits a world , a boys ' preparatory school in a Georgian house full of earnest people listening to lectures on ‘ the novel ’ , that might be thought almost civilized . |
5 | We did have a boys ' night out with Tim Cooper of the Evening Standard . |
6 | In her attempt to ascertain why anorexia nervosa is a girls ' rather than a boys ' disease , Selvini Palazzoli emphasises the manner in which the adolescent girl ‘ is exposed to lewd looks , subjected to menstruation , about to be penetrated in sexual embraces , to be invaded by the foetus , to be suckled by a child , etc . ’ |
7 | TAKE TWO : Dramatised documentary about a boys ' school , to be shown late evening . |
8 | Of course , token gestures often suffice to land unknown quantities from obscurity — Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino joined Gillingham from a boys ' club in Crockenhill for the cost of a new set of playing strips . |
9 | McColl is the first Scot to have won a boys ' winter series title . |
10 | Still coaching a boys ' football team , and taking immense pride in a four-year-old grandson who is already demonstrating an enviable left-handed off-drive , he continues to look to the future . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | a boys ' school and the headmaster there advised me not to put him there , he said send him to Newport Grammar school it 's the best school in Essex , best grammar school in Essex and he said that my two boys go there |
13 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
14 | Such dressing-up was , like glam rock before it , a boys ' affair . |
15 | During this time he taught Irish extensively and in 1908 founded St Enda 's , a boys ' bilingual secondary school . |
16 | It amalgamated with a boys ' secondary modern in September 1975 to form a mixed comprehensive but retained a strong grammar school ethos amongst a section of the senior teachers . |
17 | They organized a boys ' camp in such a way that two deliberately-created groups were formed for the experiment . |
18 | Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes . |
19 | Earl Grey never goes down well in a boys ' school — there 's that touch of Milady 's Boudoir about it . |
20 | The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . |
21 | Windsor played the long-time head of a boys ' secondary school swallowed up by a grammar school to form a comprehensive . |
22 | He 's moved the story to Russia , sent the Prince on army manoeuvres where he joins a boys ' boozy night out , has the swans massacred by a power-mad crippled usurper and the corpses piled obscenely in a heap . |