Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] boys ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too much had been taken from the ethos of the boys ' schools , including blazers and ties , which are hangovers from male attire of the Edwardian era . |
| 2 | The chief scene for amorous exchange was the entrance to the boys ' swimming baths , for the girls had no baths of their own , and were obliged to use those of their brother school for their weekly afternoon 's lesson ; here , on the steps , small red messenger boys would collect , proffering envelopes from their elders . |
| 3 | Inevitably , perhaps , the contralto Jard van Nes is rather closely balanced but the positioning of the boys ' voices and women 's chorus are well judged . |
| 4 | Vargas Llosa 's The Time of the Hero , which is set in a Peruvian military academy where the cadets assume an ostentatious machismo as a survival strategy , oscillates between third-person narration and monologue ( interior and spoken ) to bring out the gulf between the boys ' public personae and their sensitive and vulnerable inner self , and to highlight how social intercourse distorts their personality by conditioning them to suppress their softer feelings . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the school aped the traditions of the boys ' public schools , encouraging competitiveness and aggressiveness within a rigidly hierarchical structure which depended on eccentric but unbreakable rules . |
| 6 | There was something so constantly curious about the headmaster of the Boys ' Wimbledon Day Islamic Independent School that , after a while , you stopped wondering where , or indeed whether , he had acquired a degree in anything , and surrendered to that mellifluous , actorish voice . |
| 7 | There was a thin slice of light showing under the door to the boys ' room . |
| 8 | The food at the Boys ' Day Islamic Independent Wimbledon School was unspeakable . |
| 9 | Can we go a little bit into the background of the boys ' ploughing match , Marcus ? |
| 10 | ‘ Making men ’ , then , was an active process , the emphasis was on ‘ the making ’ , the success of which depended on establishing a relationship that could bring about , through influence and example , a change in the boys ' character . |
| 11 | Why not , my wife says , knock a hole through the boys ' bedroom wall , pinch a three foot six strip off it and make a new landing passage and extend the walk-in cupboard , forward to take up the old landing and sideways to build a space out to the main part of the stairs . |
| 12 | Wally Watmough was the loud-mouthed fat boy who had once beaten Frankie almost senseless in a fist-fight behind the old air-raid shelter in a corner of the boys ' playground . |
| 13 | Brian Fraser , and Michael Hoare , Sure and Stedfast : a History of The Boys ' Brigade , 1883 to 1983 , 1983 ; BB archives in BB headquarters , Glasgow . ] |