Example sentences of "lady ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CHEQUE for £2,084.19 was presented to Newquay ladies ' guild by Newquay Pearl , the money being raised during the past year by the organisation of several specialist events in aid of the RNLI . |
| 2 | A CHEQUE for just over £117 has been presented to Bournemouth ladies ' guild by PIP Printing , Bournemouth . |
| 3 | The following year saw a much improved performance when she beat Mandy to win the ladies ' event at the Holme Pierrepont Rodeo . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bill Pedler won some impressive professional competitions in the South of England and Dorothy Campbell , the Ladies ' Champion of Great Britain , France and Canada played an Exhibition at Henley to the great delight of the members . |
| 6 | Sunday morning say the start of the ladies ' competition with St Albans A and Mutineers going through to the semis to play St Albans B and Woodmill respectively , the latter two having been given byes to this stage . |
| 7 | A LADIES ' choir in Darlington has appointed a new musical director . |
| 8 | Three years ago , having worked as a psychologist for 10 years and become disillusioned with traditional psychotherapy , Sobchak opened Russia 's first Ladies ' School of Charm as an experiment . |
| 9 | We went everywhere : from garden parties in the grounds of castles , wedding receptions in marquees , hunt balls in assembly rooms , university teas on graduation day , garden fetes in the bishop 's palace , to the annual parties of car salesmen , the golden weddings of simple folk — once I even remember a gypsy funeral — ladies ' night at the masonic lodge , and the British Legion get-together . |
| 10 | Doreen Hunt and Rita Forde gave a Medau lecture demonstration on Ladies ' Night at Prince Avenue Primary School , Southend-on-Sea . |
| 11 | Joan formed a ladies ' committee at Trentham Park Golf Club dedicated to achieving the target . |
| 12 | Dee Guite won the ladies ' race in 39.04 , while Colchester Joggers ' Jo Bennett was sixth in 42.55 and Lynn Tanner , of Colchester and Tendring , was the leading veteran in 44.28 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | SINCE this is Ladies ' Day on the Diary , here 's a limerick from Arlene Willetts now in Silksworth but until recently one of Tony Blair 's flock . |
| 15 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 16 | In fact , by winning the Pilkington Glass Ladies ' title in June for the 10th time , she came to within one of Chris Evert 's record of 157 career titles . |
| 17 | An interesting sign of the times was the Ladies ' request in 1937 to have a bar-hatch cut into the lounge , at their expense , but despite Mrs. J. Chalcraft and Miss Lorna Simmons attending a main Committee to put the case , their request was lost 7–3 , although a referendum on the subject came close to being conducted . |
| 18 | In the Northern Counties three metres springboard diving championships at Kirkby , Amy Howard ( Knowsley DC ) finished second in the Ladies ' championship to Olympian Naomi Bishop ( Oldham DC ) . |
| 19 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1923 he married Ivy Burley , a ladies ' hairdresser of Smallheath , Birmingham , who survived him . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Black leather ladies ' belt with silver buckle , £32.95 , Mulberry . |
| 25 | Priscilla Buxton recounted how four MPs brought in the huge rolls of the ladies ' petition of 1833 and ‘ heaved it on to the table among loud laughing and cheers . |
| 26 | Some organizations laid primary stress on preventive work and moral re-education , especially among working-class girls : for example the Anglican-run Girls ' Friendly Society , founded in 1874 , Ellice Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls , 1876 , and the Band of Hope Mission , 1879 . |
| 27 | In February 1884 Sir Vernon Harcourt , Liberal Home Secretary , received petitions from Bath Preventive Mission and Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls , calling for immediate legislation raising the age of consent to eighteen and giving the police greater powers . |
| 28 | The National Union of Women Workers , NUWW ( a philanthropic offshoot of Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls formed in 1895 ) , launched a fresh assault on the conspiracy of silence over incest at their annual conference in 1906 . |
| 29 | Marian has been the Cork Area Ladies ' Representative on the Executive Committee for the past two years . |
| 30 | Galway Area Ladies ' representative since 1989 , Marian has been a branch representative in most locations she has worked since 1975 . |