Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] lady ' [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
13 | At one point , Joan rose from the table and went to the ladies ' room . |
14 | It was kept in the ladies ' waiting room and was used by staff and their families , and by stranded passengers . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Ruth explained about the Ladies ' Companion and her telephone-call , and went on to ask : |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Ten minutes later as she sat in the Ladies ' cloakroom , smelling-salts to her nose , Sophie joined her . |
19 | Satisfied , she retraces her steps until she comes to a Ladies ' cloakroom . |