1.   A girl needed her beauty sleep.

2.   A nice girl like you needs a husband.

3.   A young girl needs a strong mother figure.

4.   She believed that girls needed a fair dose of daily and vigorous exercise.

5.   If you ask me, what that girl needs is a good talking-to.

6.   What the girl needs, they say, is a firm father.

7.   A girl needed eighteen stitches to her face after she was savaged by a dog.

8.   And as recent studies show, pubescent girls need all the support they can get.

9.   At issue, really, is the idea that girls need care and handling different from that of boys.

10.   After the custody battle in the courts, Ms. Evans said, the girls needed therapy.