noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baby boy/girl
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She’s just had a lovely healthy baby girl.
a cover girl (= an attractive girl whose photo is on the front cover )
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She had always liked the idea of being a cover girl.
a lucky man/woman/boy/girl
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Your son’s a lucky man, having a father like you.
alpha girl
bad girl/dog etc
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Bad cat! Get off the table!
ball girl
call girl
chorus girl
cover girl
day girl
delinquent girls/boys/children/teenagers
flower girl
girl Friday
girl power
Girl Scout
Girls Aloud
head girl
It girl
little boy/girl
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two little boys playing in the street
nice girl
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What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
old girl
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an old girls’ reunion
orphan girl/boy/child
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a poor little orphan girl
paper girl
sb’s little boy/girl (= someone’s son or daughter who is still a child )
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Mum, I’m 17 – I’m not your little girl any longer.
stable girl
the birthday girl/boy informal (= the person whose birthday it is )
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Here comes the birthday girl!
the new boy/girl British English (= the newest person in a job, organization etc – used humorously )
weather girl
working girl
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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There were girls who persistently stayed out late, girls who kept bad company and girls who drank too much.
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Jen had been a bad girl as a kid and probably seemed to him to be straightening out.
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They were all thieves and bad girls .
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I love that she is the bad girl .
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Nice girls saved everything until they were married and bad girls, well, bad girls did the opposite.
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Squashing a bad girl is like trying to squash a bluebottle.
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Of course he wasn't interested in what was good or bad for the girls .
beautiful
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I want to know all there is to know about an astonishingly beautiful girl called Ellie.
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From a variety of angles, the movie makes its point about beautiful girls , without ever hitting us over the head.
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Yet she was not a conventionally beautiful girl .
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What they usually hoard and guard in this way are beautiful girls and treasures of gold.
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A very beautiful girl , an honest, country girl.
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After three sons, Thomas and Kim Cipriano were thrilled to have a beautiful baby girl .
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Come to me, My beautiful girl .
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This beautiful and innocent girl on the other side of the world insisted that I call her Sally.
good
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They're all chasing the good looking girls .
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His bad boy always drove me to my vivacious good girl .
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It won't mind. Good girl !
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You married like a good girl .
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You be a good girl too and go straight to sleep.
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A good girl , was Jessica.
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Don't misunderstand me ... she's a good girl and generous-hearted once you get to know her.
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Was it a disastrous marriage or the betrayal of a good girl ?
little
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One little girl dropped her ice-cream in the excitement of it all and began to howl like a banshee.
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The little girl never left my mind.
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He's got two little girls with him - one is his daughter.
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All kinds of pretty little girls were cutting down the darkening street.
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I like living with my mum and her little girl .
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It does so with the explicit mission of setting an example for little girls who enjoy sports.
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I didn't really want to be a pretty little girl then.
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Another had played checkers with a little girl named Hattie Wise, and persuaded her older brother to join the order.
nice
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Alison had shown enough respectable horror on discovering that he was married to prove she was a nice girl .
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He needed some nice girl of Anthony's age to prove his point.
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And she was a nice girl .
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Some nice girls do, some nice girls don't.
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We were afraid that Fifi was caving in to family pressure and regressing into some nice third-world girl .
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Some nice girls do, some nice girls don't.
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Not cocky young men with roving eyes and a nice taste in girls .
old
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They've re-opened an incident room they set up in November when a fourteen year old girl was raped.
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A six-year-#old Ohio girl dies from an airbag deployment. 1994&038;.
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Read in studio Two twelve year old girls have been sexually assaulted by a masked man in Milton Keynes.
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His questionable relationship with a fourteen-year-#old girl had been found out.
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They were bought by an enthusiastic sixteen year old girl who wants to drive them when they are old enough.
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Another couple had selected an eight-year-\#old girl and were leading her away.
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It happened less than two days after a fourteen year old girl from Birmingham was killed in a joyriding incident.
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Even Beate postponed going out to join the group of older girls in the camp.
other
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The other girl was not so lucky, her attempted escape accelerated the plans for her marriage.
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Perhaps the other girl didn't mind being part of a deal over a vineyard.
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He had danced with some of the other girls but not with her.
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Some one's talking to the other girls .
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Had her shyly determined efforts to be friendly with the other quieter girls like herself been so thoroughly misinterpreted?
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By now most of the other girls found me extremely odd, but they were easily cowed by my outbursts of sarcasm.
poor
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She was bored, poor girl .
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Terrified by the suffering of the poor girl , at the end of his patience and afraid, he abandons her.
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She went out of her mind, poor girl .
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The girls in Entally were poor girls.
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The poor girl was absolutely infatuated with him, not knowing that his tastes lie in quite a different direction.
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I have something here that might help you find the man who attacked the poor girl .
pretty
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He'd fallen in love with a pretty girl who had nice ways and was sweet to kiss and cuddle.
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She's that pretty girl , isn't she.
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She is a pretty girl , but I did not know how to kiss her.
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There was the pretty girl from the village shop wearing an emerald-green dress more suited to a wedding.
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Or, if you will marry pretty girls .
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One day Howard came on the set and Brando was down the beach talking to a pretty girl .
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Looking at herself in the mirror, she was surprised to find a pretty girl looking back at her.
small
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Once the first week was over the two small girls joined others in the schoolroom.
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I have no intention of exposing the flesh of a small girl whom I did not once see stripped of her clothing.
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There was a thin silver ring of the type small girls wear on the fourth finger.
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At a nearby Safeway pharmacy an incorrect antibiotic was dispensed for a small girl .
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Infantilized, she used to appear regularly in hagiographical volumes, especially those designed for the edification of small girls .
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The lady with the ballet tees was now joined by an older lady with a small girl by the hand.
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After this last furlough we paid a last sad visit to the school and found a small girl crying her heart out.
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The title refers to the room in which the state caretakers abandoned a small girl to her death.
teenage
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The reasons why teenage girls get pregnant are many and various.
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Many teenage girls worry that if they appear too smart or competent, boys will be turned off.
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Among teenage girls in Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh there were 12 abortions and 28 births in 1990 for every 1,000 teenagers.
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They were two teenage girls who had spent months in the same hospital but had never seen each other.
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Girl, 16, raped by gang A TEENAGE girl was kidnapped and raped by a gang while police hunted for her.
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Two teenage girls and a woman were hurt.
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Recently, my wife was on a local bus with a lot of teenage girls coming home from school.
young
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The youngest girl , only two, had her portrait painted by him.
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I took the younger girls and a young boy, and we stayed down there to see what was going to happen.
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Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember.
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The opera over, great crowds of young girls came piling into our place.
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It was highly reprehensible for a young girl who had not been properly initiated into the status of motherhood to become pregnant.
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Inside, his parents mourned for both their son and the seven young girls he killed.
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Quite a lot of young girls , however, choose not to sue for child maintenance.
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Older women, young girls , and men of all ages gain fat on their torsos and limbs much more evenly.
■ NOUN
baby
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A baby girl died in Norfolk after choking on a penny.
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By that time, McCorvey had given birth and put the baby girl up for adoption.
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A baby girl emerges into the world with the pattern for her future possible children already laid within her body.
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I was pregnant with Denver but I had milk for my baby girl .
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Human baby girls are born with about three million eggs in their ovaries, and that is their lifetime's supply.
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All I knew was I had to get my milk to my baby girl .
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The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze and the body of the baby girl was discovered in the bedroom.
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When doctors told me that I was carrying a baby girl , I wept.
■ VERB
marry
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If you will have it, yes, there were debts that did not permit of my marrying a penniless girl .
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You married like a good girl .
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By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children.
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Still, she said, she would be nervous if her son decided to marry a Druitt girl .
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Harry later -; not so much later - sought to marry an island girl , and settled down.
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He had been rewarded for marrying a girl nobody in his right mind would have married.
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He had married a Glasgow girl , probably in 1934, and the marriage broke up in 1939.
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He could not marry a girl of his own age and class, because her father would reject him.
meet
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I haven't got time to meet girls .
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Ed had met a girl called Galatea who was living in San Francisco on her savings.
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A young man there called Motor Martinez could meet the young girl called Bujia Martinez.
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Then I dressed and off we flew to New York to meet some girls .
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One time, I meet a girl whose name I don't remember.
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I've met a lot of girls in Aspen.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big girl's blouse
a slip of a girl/boy etc
glamour girl/boy
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There are of course differences between the 1930s and late twentieth-century interpretations of the glamour girl.
golden boy/girl
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She's Hollywood's current golden girl.
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Completing the trio of golden girls is Millicent Martin - it's a formidable combination.
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Even without mistakes, the halo effect eventually wears off when some one else emerges as the new golden girl.
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First full season for Formula One's new golden boy.
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From the very beginning, Tordella was the golden boy of the Puzzle Palace.
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Ratner is not a fallen golden boy of the Thatcher era, nor a victim of his own jokes.
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So golden boy had flipped - this week?
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Terms such as thought leader, golden boy, or winner refer to people with a power base of reputation.
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They are golden boys, about 17 or 18, and apparently weightless.
good girl/boy/dog etc
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Good boys, good boys, good boys.
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He's a good boy, and he's very strong.
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He coughed, told Oliver to dry his eyes and be a good boy, and walked on with him in silence.
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He had been a very good boy indeed.
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I am Pa's best boy.
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I tried to be a good girl and stay out of the way.
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Randolph worked his hardest, pulling away, while Santa delivered all the presents to the good boys and girls.
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This was where good boys came after they got killed by Rupert.
it's a girl/football/music etc thing
that's a good girl/that's a clever dog etc
the woman/man/girl etc in your life
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He was a tough little kid, Esteban, the women in his life say.
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Michael: Who are the men in your life ?
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My doctor is the man in my life .
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Nevertheless, he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life .
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Recent books have revealed the unacknowledged literary debts that writers such as Brecht and Joyce owed to the women in their lives .
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To clarify things that may be confusing the men in their lives .
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Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring?
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Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
woman/lady/girl of easy virtue
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Sadly, morals and behaviour ashore had deteriorated too with more drunks and ladies of easy virtue in evidence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A little girl was sitting on the front doorstep.
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A nice girl like you needs a husband.
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Beth is one of the most popular girls in her class.
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He's going out with that girl who works in the library.
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I'll have my girl send it over.
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In Britain, some young girls are choosing parenthood as an alternative to employment.
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More girls play sports now than when I was younger.
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On Saturday night, the streets are full of teenage girls and boys, out for a good time.
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She's my girl .
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She's tall for a girl her age.
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What's that girl 's name?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another girl followed her, bearing a tray of coffee.
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As for that girl , words failed her.
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Give each of these girls a doll and put it on the bill.
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He saw girls at his Theatrical Club.
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She even managed to array the girl in shining armor.
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The vision of the vain, silly girl she had been seemed to accuse her in some obscure way.