Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [art] lady " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Should I die , Richard would under normal circumstances accede to the throne with the lady Anne as his consort . ’ |
| 2 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 3 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 4 | The result is that often illnesses are considered to be purely physical when in fact they have an emotional trigger , as in the case of the lady who developed rheumatoid arthritis after her visit to Flanders , or a mental or possibly even spiritual precipitating factor . |
| 5 | I think Leonora Stem has made a tentative identification with a young Mr Thomas Hearst of Richmond who liked to come and play the oboe with the ladies . |
| 6 | Her lavender-scented mother began to watch her distastefully , as though she were a cigar being smoked in the presence of a lady without permission . |
| 7 | When she came back from Confession , uncomforted , she found her cell mate kicking the doctor who was trying to feed her , and at the same time yelling that he should take his hat off in the presence of a lady . |
| 8 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 9 | An Emergency Meeting agreed on enlarging the clubhouse , including making the ground floor of the cottage into the Ladies ' locker room — to be reached by an uncovered , external stairway ! |
| 10 | ‘ I went up the nave and was surprised to see a man , cowled and hooded , kneeling at the entrance to the Lady Chapel . ’ |
| 11 | She enjoyed the opportunity of impressing the president of the Lady Queen Bees . |
| 12 | ‘ To have the pleasure of a lady 's company , ’ he nodded , giving the impression of a man glad to pass on a message correctly . |
| 13 | It was all due to the kindness of a lady , Miss Margaret Higginson , who became one of my dearest friends . |
| 14 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 15 | The trophy for the ladies open has not been engraved for the last few years . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I climbed up on the roof through the window of the ladies ’ toilet , and hung a string of underwear from the Mackintosh Bird … for charity . ’ |
| 17 | The building works continued in a way we might recognise today , and the architect , Mr. Fair , was given the following list of outstanding jobs to discuss with the builder — raising the chimney , painting the window of the ladies ' lavatories , completing the lockers , re-arranging the pipes at the back of the dining room door , fixing the fireplaces and completing the heating apparatus . |
| 18 | Susanna Cellini was looking in the window of the ladies ' boutique when Stephen and Christina walked through the lobby just after noon . |
| 19 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 20 | Ever the gentleman he even managed to pick a Michael Fallon sticker off the bottom of a ladies ' shoe , only to get it stuck on his own . |
| 21 | Linked to this , a central factor in the familial ideology , was the increased ideological separation of home from work , based as it was on the withdrawal of the lady from social labour . |
| 22 | Her great-grandmother had never dressed herself without the help of a lady 's maid , but times had changed since then . |
| 23 | I feel rather like the judge in the Lady Chatterley trial ; what is a Publisher-at-Large ? |
| 24 | Let us take the question of the ladies ' toilets which you asked me about . |
| 25 | The master reported to the Board that a young woman named Annie H. had been sent to the workhouse immediately after her confinement by her mistress , Miss M. , of Woburn Road , and the clerk to the Board was directed to call the attention of the lady to the serious risk incurred by her in so doing . |
| 26 | What happened when he faced his wife and when the husband of the lady in question , who was in the Forces , heard of her escapade , did n't reach the papers . |
| 27 | This was the nature of the Lady 's eyes : they were bright green , lacking iris or pupil , and they glowed from within . |
| 28 | Fortunately for us the words ‘ nostalgic ’ and ‘ ephemera ’ caught the eye of a lady visiting our East End Council of Churches Abbeyfield House . |
| 29 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
| 30 | Clint may be the wrong side of 60 but the cowboy superstar is not about to throw in the towel with the ladies just yet . |