Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [art] ladies " in BNC.
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1 | He 's a bit of a ladies ' man , ’ he said , adding ‘ Nigella Lawson — she 's very tasty , nicer than in her picture . |
2 | ‘ He seems to have been a bit of a ladies ’ man — ’ |
3 | His mop of red hair and boyish good looks made him a favourite with the ladies . |
4 | But now , he entered the room without even looking at me , and took a seat with the ladies . |
5 | John 's mother , Audrey , joined the Club in 1938 and remained a stalwart in the Ladies ' Section up to the time of her death in 1984 , and his father Tom served the Club in many ways and was very highly regarded . |
6 | Mountain Crash , off the course since his run at Cottenham , looks set for a return in the Ladies ' Open at Marks Tey tomorrow . |
7 | This was a very different place to Gloucester , where the Empress 's ladies were virtually servants themselves , but in the flurry of introductions and orders for a place in the ladies ' chamber to be made ready for her Isabel forgot about comparisons . |
8 | Tickets for the evening were sixty-five pounds but there was still a queue for the ladies … |
9 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
10 | For the first three or four days after the Residency had been abandoned a number of the ladies had been employed in making cartridges ; now , because of the shortage of lead for the moulds , the job had been left to Lucy , who had become extraordinarily skilful . |
11 | She was in urgent need of relief , and the only possibility was a chamber pot behind a screen in the ladies ' cloakroom . |
12 | Easy Over also holds an engagement in the Ladies ' Open , along with True Dowry , already a course winner this season . |
13 | Twenty years old as she was , Ella had beaten her big sisters to the altar : Alice Maud , the eldest , waited a further two years before marrying Frank Foote , a clerk in Godsell 's Brewery in Stroud , Gloucestershire , in which town she herself had served an apprenticeship with a ladies ' hairdresser in High Street . |
14 | Unmarried , amusing , with an eye for the ladies , and a mission to please . |
15 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
16 | And it makes you realise that , though he may be famous for having an eye for the ladies , he also has an ear for a good song . |