Example sentences of "the boy ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
| 2 | She found that in the boys ' peer group , powerful members used direct imperatives like ‘ gim me ’ and ‘ get off ’ . |
| 3 | The absence of Essex and Lancashire brought a new look to the boys ' championship and matches were keenly contested before Kent claimed the title . |
| 4 | Public schools normally take children from the age of 13 ( usually the boys ' boarding schools ) or from the age of 11 . |
| 5 | The difficulty she was having in making sense of the boys ' education was illustrated by the packet of letters she had brought to school in the morning . |
| 6 | An image is given here of maturity and knowledge : the boys ' education is enabling them to identify many of the trees and plants , and they are described for their usefulness ; the boys seem to recognize them as things to be used or admired , and no thought of destruction is introduced . |
| 7 | Our makeshift seat had consisted of cases of wine while bottles of brandy were distributed liberally amongst the boys ' bedding , none of which had been declared to us , of course . |
| 8 | I simply could not understand the boys ' sense of humour . |
| 9 | When the time came , she was similarly firm about the boys ' schooling . |
| 10 | The northern courtyard , with a fairly open aspect to the west , was the boys ' playground , while the south court provided a play area for the girls . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He contends , by Mr. Wall , that Booth J. in taking into account various matters regarding the boys ' welfare , misdirected herself . |
| 13 | Declan Mullan and Chris Quinn took the boys ' title , and Nikki Harrison and her partner , Orla McGrath , were the top girls . |
| 14 | Leanne Matthew won the minor girls championship , while Middlesbrough and Cleveland clubmate Rees Connor , 14 , won the boys ' title . |
| 15 | It had been the custom since Gilkes 's day for masters to meet monthly to discuss the boys ' progress , and now a simple record card contained all the necessary information , supplemented from time to time as necessary , and formed the basis of this report . |
| 16 | The boys ' behaviour is their way of protesting at these changes and competing for your affection and attention . |
| 17 | This definitely applies to the boys and the saying , ‘ The Banality of Evil ’ also describes the boys ' behaviour . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The new youth movement found its most dramatic expression in the religious brigades , the first of which was the Boys ' Brigade ( BB ) , founded by William Smith in Glasgow in 1883 , followed by the Church Lads ' Brigade ( CLB ) in 1891 , and the Boys ' Life Brigade ( BLB ) in 1899 . |
| 20 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 21 | It was a feast , swilled down in the boys ' case at least . |
| 22 | The boys ' success rates were higher than those of the girls in 80 out of the 81 questions . |
| 23 | They are all unclean ; and in the boys ' initiation rites we find that the mudyi tree also has its part to play in the symbolism of circumcision . |
| 24 | At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home . |
| 25 | Years ago you used to have the boys ' service you see ? |
| 26 | and he says they looked he says but I never forgot what I looked like , or what I when he started , but you ca n't join the boys ' service now . |
| 27 | A large pond was the boys ' delight and they would travel the considerable distance to the ‘ newty ’ pond , as it was nicknamed , to sit in expectation for the fish to bite . |
| 28 | Steven Clark , the leading points winner in the boys ' event over the LTA 's 114 and Under Indoor Winter Series of tournaments , went down with appendicitis two days before the latest tournament , played at the Gosling Sports Park during March . |
| 29 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 30 | The military style of the Rangers includes an exacting dress code : girls wear an emerald green blouse , red scarf , jodhpurs and jodhpur boots or long boots , and a felt cowboy-style hat ; the boys ' attire includes a fawn shirt , red tie and a dark green beret . |