Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a girls [unc] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was 16 , I sang outside the window of a girls ' school . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks … |
| 4 | She was the headmistress of a girls ' school . |
| 5 | 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 . |