Example sentences of "of the girls i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked many of the girls I spoke to imagine their feelings about going to an important birthday party at the age of five , and every single one mentioned dressing up , wanting to look pretty , wear a special dress , and ‘ be noticed ’ . |
| 2 | It was striking that many of the girls I spoke to with anorexia or bulimia ( an eating disorder similar to anorexia , but in which sufferers make themselves sick or take laxatives to keep their weight down ; both methods are extremely dangerous to health ) told of an incident ( which they often insist was small or insignificant ) of sexual harassment or abuse which marked the start of their body obsession . |
| 3 | I had any of the girls I wanted . |
| 4 | But most of the girls I find , they are so stupid . |
| 5 | The great majority of the girls I taught still thought they were born to serve men . |
| 6 | Most of the girls I spoke to said they could not talk about these things to their mothers , and some of their mothers were no more than seventeen or nineteen years older than themselves . |
| 7 | One of the girls I taught was this girl Hilda Syms , and she got a crush on me . |
| 8 | Most of the girls I know — ’ |
| 9 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 10 | Er , no , there 's Joanna one of the girls I look after and er Rebecca who lives next door to me , erm some friends of ours years ago were going to , were thinking of buying it , it was about five thousand pounds then , so it shows ya how long ago it is |
| 11 | Only for a bloke actually it 's pretty easy , but for some of the girls I mean they sometimes has to false herself . |
| 12 | One of the girls I work with is getting married and has got married today and |
| 13 | Well well let's face it , one of the girls I used to work with going up , she never used a ordinary oven . |
| 14 | And a lot of them have emotional problems ; I mean one of the girls I talked to here who 's dealing with calls says it 's difficult , you get some people who get very angry with you because you do n't have news for them . |