Example sentences of "a girls ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Arthur 's Cousin Amy , ’ responded his sister firmly , ‘ works as a secretary at a girls ' boarding school . |
| 2 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 3 | There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks … |
| 4 | Onlookers paying £40 a head might have disagreed , for though the clothes were gorgeous and the models undeniably pretty , the atmosphere was more like that of a girls ' boarding school than an haute couture show . |
| 5 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 1957 a girls ' secondary modern was opened , sharing a large site but not much else either with the boys ' secondary modern or ( still less ) with the Grammar School . |
| 8 | Her mother disowned her and she was sent , as was the custom then , to live out her pregnancy in a girls ' hostel near Cambridge , doing housework for her keep . |
| 9 | In 1916 the 2nd Earl of Feversham was killed at the Battle of the Somme and the house became a girls ' school until 1895 . |
| 10 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 11 | I remember some other kids , a girls ' dorm , green-painted walls with a red border half-way up , a stiff roller-towel next to a wash-hand-basin , the scent of carbolic soap , hugs from a kind , laughing lady with large arms and the comforting smell of B.O. , and a small , quiet , wiry man who always seemed to be sweeping and winking . |
| 12 | Eden Hall was extensively rebuilt in 1935 or thereabouts , and much of the original fabric removed at that time , today it is a girls ' school . |
| 13 | In 1952 I received a county grant , enabling me to attend a girls ' public school in the Home Counties . |
| 14 | In her attempt to ascertain why anorexia nervosa is a girls ' rather than a boys ' disease , Selvini Palazzoli emphasises the manner in which the adolescent girl ‘ is exposed to lewd looks , subjected to menstruation , about to be penetrated in sexual embraces , to be invaded by the foetus , to be suckled by a child , etc . ’ |
| 15 | THE body of a new-born baby was found yesterday in a locker at a girls ' grammar school . |
| 16 | She got a first at Girton and taught , for most of her life , in a girls ' boarding school . |
| 17 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 18 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 19 | The house became a girls ' school until 1980 when the grounds were developed for housing . |
| 20 | The wartime routine was enlivened by a series of afternoon musical concerts for secondary school pupils at the Davenport Theatre ; by potato-picking at harvest time ; by Christmas work at the General Post Office ; by firewatching duties with the ARP , both at School and at Stockport High School ( the latter venue being very popular , a girls ' school and not to be confused with its short-lived 19th century boys ' predecessor ) ; and by the various fund-raising " War Weeks " : " War Weapons Week " in 1941 raised £5,729 ; " School Warships " in 1942 £5,900 ; " Wings for Victory " in 1943 £10,571 ; " Salute the Soldier " in 1944 £10,785 ; and " Thanksgiving Week " in 1945 raised £14,100 , and also won the boys an extra half-holiday . |
| 21 | Instructions I copied out from a girls ' annual for 1954 . |
| 22 | Another student , who had attended a girls ' grammar , felt that there were important differences between single-sex schools and mixed schools . |
| 23 | In her books this is to be found at its most extreme in Sara Crewe ( 1888 ) — expanded , following the stage version , as The Little Princess ( 1905 ) — a Cinderella story where a bullied little drudge at a girls ' school is restored to riches and esteem and the tyrannical headmistress humiliated . |
| 24 | After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement . |
| 25 | She also did voluntary work in a girls ' club , which brought her into contact with the local women 's trade union council , the Women 's Co-operative Guild , and ultimately the Labour party . |
| 26 | Later she helped to run a girls ' club in Whitechapel . |
| 27 | However many feathers must have been ruffled in the process Eva survived and received a further vote of confidence iii her leadership skills when she was appointed principal of Usher Institute , a girls ' school with a growing reputation , south of Howard in Matabeleland . |
| 28 | But when Coffin checked in the records , intact but dusty , he found that the comic was not a comic but a girls ' magazine . |
| 29 | She was the headmistress of a girls ' school . |
| 30 | He should have realized that it was a poem that Miss Gilberd herself had had drummed into her at a Girls ' High School in the West Riding , sometime in the nineteen-forties . |