Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] ladies " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a signal was given for the ladies to retire , leaving the men to their port and cigars , Sarah hurried to the kitchen , scurrying like a rabbit for shelter . |
| 2 | The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ . |
| 3 | As an amateur jockey Pip has had eight National hunt wins this season and had been challenging for the Ladies Championship . |
| 4 | We mingle with the ladies in black velvet evening gloves selling Moet and the photographer promising to make the plain into cover girls for a day . |
| 5 | The men rose with the ladies . |
| 6 | Mind , I do like the girls I do n't know in the ladies ' room , gelling knives of black hair and saying , ‘ He 's a cunt , that one . ’ |
| 7 | I said that she must have done her act by now , but Rebecca said not to worry and that she and Clara always followed Plan B — to hide in the Ladies — if anything went wrong . |
| 8 | Camille , returning from the Ladies , observed her stepfather sipping mineral water and reading the paper and made a detour round the tables to avoid him . |
| 9 | Beneath his armpit , at the same moment , Rory glimpsed Rosie returning from the ladies . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I think Italian football could well appeal to the ladies . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's something in that , ’ Hari agreed , ‘ but , for the moment , I have to concentrate on the ladies ’ shoes so that they are ready for the people from the theatre to take with them when they move on to Somerset . ’ |
| 12 | At the national level , women 's political participation was confined to the ladies auxiliaries of the Conservative and Liberal parties , which were formed during the 1880s and 1890s as a means of making use of women 's formidable political energies and of siphoning off potential protest |
| 13 | In addition , Mary Wilson was also a keen campaigner for women 's brothels and contributed an essay to The Voluptarian Cabinet on this subject under the title Adultery on the Part of Married Women , and Fornication on the Part of Old maids and Widows defended by Mary Wilson , Spinster , with Plans for Promoting the same , Addressed to the Ladies of the Metropolis and its Environs . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ he said finally , helping her to walk with Matey 's assistance , ‘ I have heard of the ladies ’ sewing circle accused of many things , but never of bringing on a swoon . |
| 15 | She excused herself when halfway through the meal , and made for the ladies room . |
| 16 | ‘ So did I , ’ said Bunny looking towards the Ladies and wondering if there could be another exit he could n't see . |
| 17 | Polly thrust it back into her bag , embarrassed at being caught doing things more properly done in a ladies ' cloakroom , and furious at her own embarrassment . |
| 18 | At that moment Mr Sowerberry returned and , hearing what had happened ( according to the ladies ) , he beat Oliver so hard that even Mr Bumble and Mrs Sowerberry were satisfied . |
| 19 | The reason , according to the ladies on the circuit who notice these things , is the return of her wobbly bottom . |
| 20 | Presented by the Ladies in 1912 . |
| 21 | In the evenings , after a dinner collected by the ladies from along the road , we huddled round the fire , playing bridge . |
| 22 | When the last goodbyes and blessings on him had been murmured by the ladies , two dimmed lanterns were provided by Mrs Prynn the housekeeper , and the priest was led down to the kitchens and into the stables , under the floor of which a tunnel led steeply down to the shore . |
| 23 | It was here that the Princess was presented with a bonnet of straw-plait made by the ladies of Swanage who stayed up all night to finish it before the royal party left next day from the Quay to join the Royal Yacht in the Bay . |
| 24 | He explained that the trolley service was operated by the Ladies Committee volunteers , who stocked supplies requested by the patients themselves . |
| 25 | Then she turned and fled from the dance floor , pushing her way between the smooching couples and heading for the Ladies , a box of a room with pegs lining two walls , a flyblown mirror over a grubby cracked china sink and two cubicles . |
| 26 | Different again is the dancing of the bedouin soldiers , at once chaste and erotic — ‘ chaste because it takes place among men , mostly holding one another by the elbow or the forefinger … erotic because it takes place between men , and because it 's performed before the ladies . |
| 27 | The newly born boy was wrapped in a ladies jump suit . |
| 28 | Stella , who for a miserable quarter of an hour had been contemplating going to the ladies ' room and not coming back , was suddenly struck by the curiously fragmented nature of the group about the table . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to the ladies , then we 'll be leaving too . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Surprisingly I enjoyed going to the ladies ’ sewing circle , with Matey , ’ wrote Sally-Anne in her journal . |