Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] girl ['s] " in BNC.

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1 Needing air he got up abruptly — wishing to Christ that Lowell would take his thick ugly fingers off the girl 's neck .
2 Mada Joyce and a neighbour bent over the cooking fire arguing over the best decoction of herbs for the girl 's condition .
3 Although he had no doubts about the Girls ' standard of work he would only take up on Smith 's offer if his organization was efficient .
4 The accused , who can not be named for legal reasons , also deny taking nude photographs of the children while they themselves were naked and showing the pictures to the girl 's mother .
5 A senior officer said : ‘ We have no reason to doubt the essentials of the girl 's story .
6 The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress .
7 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 .
8 In fact it has been mainly the lesbians in the girls ' work movement who have been developing a determination to make the links between all oppressions , and who have become very clear about the need for that work to be accessible to all young women .
9 England youth squad member Lee Dalzell ( GatesheadWhickham ) clearly heads the qualifiers in the girls ' 15 years 100m breaststroke .
10 There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks …
11 Not only have your reports been first-lass but I have been particularly pleased that you were able to establish and maintain such good relations with the girl 's family and with the police .
12 Differences between the girls ' and boys ' groups were marked chiefly by the extent to which they represented themselves as involved readers .
13 Yet these lines contain an anger which is encountered again and again in her work , that from the constraints of a girl 's upbringing to the tyrannies of marriage , there is small hope of a woman achieving the life she wants .
14 The girl comes from a large and extended family and at all times when my client and its officers were trying to obtain information and ascertain the conditions the girl was living in , their task was made more difficult , in some cases very difficult indeed , sir , by the attitude to the authorities of certain members of the girl 's family .
15 A quality of obsession and loss links photographs in the series — the black wings of a girl 's hair , the flying debris of a Tokyo rubbish tip , black shapes in the sky like a wave of planes .
16 The driver was taken to the same hospital , but later moved to Wolverhampton for his own protection as angry relatives and friends of the girls ' families gathered in corridors .
17 The men , jacketless , their sweaters like the girls ' .
18 She tore the glittering strands from the girl 's face , slapped her cheeks , tilted her head , pinched her nose , exhaled into her mouth , pummelled her chest .
19 There were tears in the girl 's eyes now .
20 There were tears in the girls ' eyes as they tried to smile back .
21 They found no group differences in the girls ' abilities to anticipate consequences of actions .
22 Odd that he had n't noticed how long the fingers were or with what apparent gentleness they had taped the plastic bags over the girl 's hand to preserve , as he had tonelessly explained , conscientious in his role of instructor , any evidence under the fingernails .
23 The girl 's uncle , Garry Fitzgerald , a former social worker with Lambeth , had previously made complaints about the girl 's treatment by the SSD when she was living with her parents .
24 But Geoffrey proved unable , or unwilling , to resist the claims of the girls ' uncles , James and Robert Harrington .
25 But Geoffrey proved unable , or unwilling , to resist the claims of the girls ' uncles , James and Robert Harrington .
26 Certainly all reports spoke of genuine smiles on the Girls ' faces , of their brightness and animation .
27 Reporting restrictions on the girl 's identity would remain in force .
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