Example sentences of "boys ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
| 2 | To return to football hooliganism in Britain itself , it is clear that the existence of ‘ ends ’ at football grounds all over the country plays a central part in maintaining working-class boys ' street-based culture . |
| 3 | One solution was to provide an organization for the 13–17 age-group , such as the Working Boys ' Brigades formed in the 1860s , and the Glasgow Foundry Boys ' Religious Society . |
| 4 | Most of the boys ' mental age is about eleven . |
| 5 | The boys ' mean score was 57 per cent and the girls ' 51 per cent . |
| 6 | The two RAF boys ' horrifying Gulf War ordeal . |
| 7 | The new breed are using boys ' phallic noise toys to take rock in their own direction . |
| 8 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 9 | In comparison , the other visits a world , a boys ' preparatory school in a Georgian house full of earnest people listening to lectures on ‘ the novel ’ , that might be thought almost civilized . |
| 10 | Durham , in 1923 , the son of Henry Percy and Stella Barclay Douglas , Mr Douglas was sent to the Friends ' School after attending St. Olave 's Boys ' Preparatory School in Ripon now attached to the cathedral as the choir school . |
| 11 | It 's still a child 's guide to sexism : children may be unconvinced , especially by the boys ' latent gallantry ( ‘ They 'd kick her , I mean him ’ ) , and adults may find the story a touch contrived , but it 's a good read . |
| 12 | The girls took advantage of the boys ' sudden inability to catch or shoot and before long the game was over and the girls won 12–8 . |
| 13 | Windsor played the long-time head of a boys ' secondary school swallowed up by a grammar school to form a comprehensive . |
| 14 | ( Perhaps this is why it is claimed that boys ' academic performance is higher in ‘ mixed ’ schools than in ‘ boys only ’ schools : they benefit from having a whole group to be better than ! |
| 15 | Thinking you were Napoleon was clearly not enough to get you out of the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' Independent Day School . |
| 16 | The boys ' physical presence was rendered huge by the small room . |
| 17 | The boys ' physical welfare was by no means neglected : the Headmaster was pleased to accept " what is called , I believe , a wrestling bar , i.e. a horizontal bar with suitable uprights " for the playground from Mr. Emery of Stepping Hill . |
| 18 | The ‘ Coach Fund ’ was heavily subscribed ; Crawford had taken on an extensive schedule which saw him coaching his protégés ( ‘ Crawford 's Colts ’ ) four evenings a week at Carisbrook , and coaching at the Boys ' High School twice a week . |
| 19 | Macmillan was educated at Stellenbosch Boys ' High School . |
| 20 | ‘ Rooster ’ comes to the compilation courtesy of The Rolling Stones ' 1964 remake of Howling Wolf 's original , yet I doubt any of these would recognise the song from the Reid boys ' howling assault on it . |
| 21 | He 's moved the story to Russia , sent the Prince on army manoeuvres where he joins a boys ' boozy night out , has the swans massacred by a power-mad crippled usurper and the corpses piled obscenely in a heap . |
| 22 | They er I mean in , in Handsworth right , on this bottom corridor , the boys ' bottom corridor , it is in such a bad way you know like they keep erm like putting their fists through windows and things like that , and the amount of repairs and fining . |
| 23 | Coincidence or whatever , in the newspaper one day the following week , there was an advertisement for an art history teacher at a boys ' public school ( that 's a private one in this country ) in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | The field also includes Ralston 's Alastair Forsyth , last year 's beaten finalist — Alan Reid of Barassie is too old to defend his title — and Mortonhall 's David Patrick , who took four points out of six for Scotland in last week 's boys ' quadrangular tournament in Sardinia . |
| 25 | Similarly , for one young musician London was ' ’ Boys ' True Adventure ’ come to life … |
| 26 | Philip Calvert , an A-level student at Prior Pursglove Sixth Form College , Guisborough , was two-hundredths of a second inside the senior boys ' qualifying time in the 800 metres , clocking 1 min 54.8 . |