Example sentences of "[art] ladies " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 2 | ‘ I think the ladies will like it … ’ |
| 3 | Then one lady wrote and said that the ladies of the local church should do it for us . |
| 4 | The 1900 U.21 Champion , Arantxa Sanchez certainly made a successful switch this year by reaching the final of the Ladies singles ! |
| 5 | Seeds continued to be upset in the Ladies event and the quarter-finals proved to be the downfall of both the top seed and defending champion Isabelle Wild , and the No. 4 seed Alison Fleming — both girls who had recently completed their final examinations were beaten by Lockhart and Nina Topper respectively . |
| 6 | The ladies final , somewhat overshadowed by the men 's final , was resumed in the evening because of rain . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the ladies doubles final had to be cancelled , but the men 's title was taken by Pashley and Carswell . |
| 8 | The ladies shoe , like its male counterpart , is specifically designed for the serious club tennis player . |
| 9 | The Ladies 60 age group brought home the highest honours : both Rita Lauder ( Hampshire & Isle of Wight ) — and Ruth Illingworth ( Essex ) reached the singles'' semi-finals , each losing to top-ranked American players , while Ruth , in a new partnership with Ann Williams ( Somerset ) , beat the numbers 1 and 2 seeded pairs to take the title at their first attempt . |
| 10 | In the consolation events , Brigitte Newbury won the Ladies ' 50 singles , while Harri Gibbon was runner-up in the Men 's 70 singles . |
| 11 | Yet in The Rake 's Progress de Valois found something new to say about the ladies of the town when she made their leader kick off her shoes , pull up her long yellow skirt and roll down her red stockings before bursting barefooted into a riotous dance on a great salver . |
| 12 | Yet Ashton found ways of so moulding classical dance that the ladies even danced sur les pointes in so Edwardian a setting . |
| 13 | There were two classes for the ladies : Miss Bikini ( figure ) , which was like Miss World without the breasts ( pumping iron , paradoxically , serves only to deflate them ) and Miss Bikini ( physique ) in which the girls resemble scaled-down versions of the men , without the knobbly bits . |
| 14 | The craft of caring for clothes vanished with the ladies ' maid and the most common modern method of storage — hanging them , shrouded in plastic , on a wire coathanger — is less than ideal . |
| 15 | Himself unspeaking , armed with his razor he reduces life to the level of a primitive ‘ shriek ’ with which ‘ the ladies of the corridor ’ , despite the way in which they ‘ Call witness to their principles/ And deprecate the lack of taste ’ , find themselves inescapably ‘ involved ’ . |
| 16 | While the trailers trailed Anne visited the Ladies , then returned groaning and limping . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When the oratory is finished the ladies begin dancing on the floor of the arena ; after some time the Ngwazi descends to join the dancing , fly whisk waving merrily , and for at least an hour joins in the celebration . |
| 19 | The ladies would visit one another , sometimes getting together to cook delicacies in vast quantities , helping each other with the minute tasks of the home . |
| 20 | Let us take the question of the ladies ' toilets which you asked me about . |
| 21 | I hope she ai n't going to ask me a question — you know , like where summat is , like the ladies or summat , cos to tell the truth I do n't really know my way round here . |
| 22 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 23 | The Stewards yesterday reshaped the qualification requirements for the Ladies ' Plate , Thames Cup and the corresponding challenge cups for four-oared crews . |
| 24 | While the Grand Challenge Cup remains the blue riband open event , the Ladies ' Plate reverts to its 1984 qualification , being open to student clubs , with composite crews only admitted from colleges of a single university or two or more schools , and entries being cut from 32 to 16 . |
| 25 | Signs appeared on the hot-air hand-driers in the ladies ' and gents ' : ‘ If you missed Sir Gordon 's speech to staff and wish to hear a recorded version , press this button … ‘ |
| 26 | The ladies would stand on the leaded roof of the projecting porch and watch the hunt run from Nether Handley to Apperknowle , or from Butchersick Farm to Moortop Farm . |
| 27 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 28 | The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post . |
| 29 | They just behave like absolute pricks so that the ladies have no choice but to drop them if they have any self-respect . |
| 30 | ‘ Why , Gloria , my dear ! ’ said one of the ladies , putting aside her soup-dish and hurrying across the wide room to welcome them almost , but not quite , as though she had been expecting them . |