Example sentences of "girl [Wh pn] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 2 | Their only appeal to Clara lay in their austerity , which sometimes reached a point where it bordered on the dangerously extreme ; there was one sad tale , for instance , of a little girl who cared for her cruel stepmother with unfailing devotion , and who died of pneumonia after running out in her nightgown to look for her stepmother 's cat . |
| 3 | Four weeks ago a girl who worked for him , Diana Travers , was found drowned following a party given for his wife on her birthday , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 4 | The death by drowning of a girl who worked for a Minister of the Crown and who died after dining at the restaurant where the Minister 's wife was also dining , whether or not he himself was present , would normally have justified at least a brief paragraph in one of the national papers . |
| 5 | The chief immediate control on women 's actions and opinions was other women ; and girls who wished for one reason or another to do unusual things needed the tolerance , perhaps even the support of their mothers and their mothers ' friends . |
| 6 | St Helens won both age groups last year and two of the girls who starred for them then Sue Smith and Rebecca Smith will be returning with that borough 's under-14 side . |
| 7 | The faces of the nudes are simpler , less tormented than those of his portraits , but since his friends were intellectuals , artists and writers , intense , complex men and women , consumed by an inner reality , that is hardly surprising ; the girls who posed for his nudes were healthy young women , models , maids , waitresses , milkmaids revelling in their bodies and their sexuality . |
| 8 | Thanks to his efforts — or rather the efforts of a couple of socially mobile former PR girls who worked for him — several fortunes were directed , with maximum publicity , into the coffers of the needy . |