Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] lady ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She noticed that several of the school parties were starting , tentatively to join up ; those of her own friends who were not suffering in the Ladies ' saloon were talking , intermittently , to a group of boys from a school in Birmingham . |
| 7 | Although a veteran of a dozen movies , to many outside of Spain Banderas is still that dark-browed guy who sent Madonna scurrying to the ladies ' room in last year 's docu-melodrama In Bed With Madonna . |
| 8 | She made small-talk with Amy and Roger Dyson and greeted about fifty more guests before excusing herself to go to the ladies ' room where she met Elaine powdering her nose . |
| 9 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 10 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 11 | and then erm turning right you went past the ladies ' cloakroom and before you got to the door out into erm Grimwich Street |
| 12 | ‘ -if I knew of the lady 's death before Monday morning , I learnt of it from Monsieur de Craon . ’ |
| 13 | Well , let me tell you , you 'll know which one it is in a second — I went back , obviously years later , and I was having my beer and I finally had to go to the loo and I went into the ladies ' room and there was a big sign saying ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here ’ . |
| 14 | Now that mirror 's the one that you look into when you go in the ladies ' toilets . |
| 15 | At one point , Joan rose from the table and went to the ladies ' room . |
| 16 | Before leaving the station she went to the Ladies ' to check up on her appearance . |
| 17 | One policeman from an area outside Easton once stated that he had ‘ sort of fixed it ’ for a lorry driver who had run over a lady 's leg because ‘ the lady was n't very nice but the lorry driver was dead on ’ ( FN 22/2/87 , p. 1 ) . |
| 18 | Novels such as Mrs Gaskell 's represent the factory girls as too low to be taken into a lady 's house as servants and claimed that immoralities were rooted in the conditions of the mills . |
| 19 | Mountain Crash has been off the course since his Cottenham run , but may reappear in the Ladies ' Open , in which recent winners Easy Over , Royal Sting , Shedid and Takeover Bid are among a good entry . |
| 20 | Leapor 's long poem ‘ The Rival Brothers ’ appeared in The Lady 's Poetical Magazine ( 1782 ) . |
| 21 | Selections from her didactic writings appeared in The Lady 's Monitor ( 1828 ) . |
| 22 | We played our match on level terms , with Sally having the advantage of playing from the ladies ' tees , which can be anything up to forty or fifty yards ahead of the men 's . |
| 23 | In one of the pictures she 's sitting on a lady 's knee . |
| 24 | She also wrote for the Lady 's Pictorial , Women 's World , the Young Woman , and the Echo , among others . |
| 25 | It was kept in the ladies ' waiting room and was used by staff and their families , and by stranded passengers . |
| 26 | Simone is cheered by the Ladies ' Pond , and in the course of summer she drinks less and dyes her hair a platinum blonde and tans herself till her eyes shine . |
| 27 | Ruth explained about the Ladies ' Companion and her telephone-call , and went on to ask : |
| 28 | ‘ Even if he had been out shooting , he would n't slip into a lady 's bedroom in muddy hunting boots . ’ |
| 29 | She stayed in the Ladies ' room for a long time , amongst girls fainting , and weeping and grieving over laddered stockings , and when she emerged he had disappeared . |
| 30 | Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies ' cloakroom , smelling-salts to her nose , Sophie joined her . |