Example sentences of "a [adj] ladies " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the same era of the early sixties , TV tough guy , Lewis Collins was earning a living as a junior ladies ' hairdresser at Andre Bernard 's salon in Liverpool . |
| 2 | Sheringham was the scene of the famous ‘ what train ? ’ incident involving Joyce Wethered in the final of the 1920 English Ladies ' Championship ; Cromer witnessed the conception of the Curtis Cup when a British ladies ' team first met the Americans there in 1905 . |
| 3 | In 1923 she set a British ladies ' record for Thames swimming ( 10 hrs. 45 min . ) . |
| 4 | The meeting also approved the establishment of a separate Ladies ' Committee . |
| 5 | The larger second-class stations would also have a separate ladies ' waiting-room . |
| 6 | Generally she finds only support from male paddlers to her on the water though when there is a separate ladies ' event at a rodeo it is not always taken seriously . |
| 7 | Today we can talk about sex without modesty or fear , but bring up the subject of death and you will be treated with the same social horror as if you had brought up the subject of masturbation at a Victorian ladies ' tea party . |
| 8 | She was a member of a Jewish Ladies Guild , or Lodge , whose founder was an Ethel Mitchell ; and a committee-member of many another local organisation . |
| 9 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 10 | It wo n't do , wo n't make a lady of you , and you have to be some kind of a lady to get a decent job in a decent ladies ’ shop . |
| 11 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |