Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] girl ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |
| 2 | A sensible choice as a young girl 's role model , she appears to be so attainable ; nothing particularly talented , beautiful or clever about her , just a pleasant-looking girl-next-door who won the pools when she met Stock , Aitken and Waterman . |
| 3 | She taught music in a private girls ' school in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | It is significant that what appears to be his last autograph , written in a shaky hand in a young girl 's album , is the final passage of the Immortality Ode , which teaches us to live by ‘ the human heart ’ . |
| 5 | To be old and unmarried still represents a cloud on a teenage girl 's horizon … |
| 6 | She watched fitzAlan walk away from her and saw him walking out of her life , saw the final destruction of a young girl 's dream that her mind had rejected and yet her heart could not relinquish . |
| 7 | Greig explores the way in which people choose to remember the past through the reactions of the boy 's sister ( her angry rejection ) , the boy 's lover ( her confused sadness ) , and the impartial perspective of a young girl 's view from 1989 . |
| 8 | The ‘ Ulster In Focus ’ films feature local actor B.J. Hogg as Erik , a Viking leader who ingeniously arrives in the 1990s through the screen of a little girl 's computer game . |
| 9 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |