Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] boys ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our laughter , together with the boys ' cries and whimpers . |
| 2 | It was a feast , swilled down in the boys ' case at least . |
| 3 | At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 6 | There was a wide space beside the staircase , the stairs rose up to the boys ' bedroom wall , then turned left to join the landing . |
| 7 | Earl Grey never goes down well in a boys ' school — there 's that touch of Milady 's Boudoir about it . |
| 8 | There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land . |