Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the lady ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belle Robertson , at 45 , became the oldest winner of the Ladies ' Championship . |
| 2 | Susanna Cellini was looking in the window of the ladies ' boutique when Stephen and Christina walked through the lobby just after noon . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Let us take the question of the ladies ' toilets which you asked me about . |
| 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 | Matey might not work so hard as McAllister did , or perform such menial tasks , like scrubbing the kitchen floor and whitening the front doorstep — which was next on McAllister 's list of duties — but she did her share and was never idle , even in her spare time — hence her membership of the ladies ' sewing circle and her encouragement of her housemaid , McAllister , to accompany her to it . |
| 7 | The cheap paper and poor colour of this tawdry imitation of the Ladies ' Home Journal or Harper 's were so plainly unworthy of her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was true what was said of him — he knew everything , but everything that happened in the hotel , even , it seemed , what took place in the ladies ' lavatories . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | NEARING THE FINISH OF THE LADIES ' COAL CARRYING RACE ( Page 27 ) |
| 12 | She had changed back into her blue suit in the ladies ' loo . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Troop/Blumenthal made a poor start in the ladies ' K2 race . |
| 16 | And that dreadful woman in the ladies ' cloakroom — no , that did n't bear thinking about . |
| 17 | Images of the girls in the office , the flutter of female interest and appreciation at the presentation , and the response of the woman in the ladies ' room at the restaurant in Gibraltar flashed across Polly 's mind . |
| 18 | The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) . |
| 19 | Sally Hepburn , Tournament Secretary of the Ladies ' Golf Union at St.Andrews has an annual meeting with her neighbours , the Royal and Ancient Golf Club , to sort through the maze of men 's and women 's British amateur events , and admits that it is a task that grows harder each season . |
| 20 | As he films Mia , she tells him , ‘ Cinéma vérité is just an excuse to follow little girls into the ladies ' room . ’ |
| 21 | It was in 1913 that the first reference is made to the Luker family , proprietors of the Henley Standard , when on October 31st , Charles Luker was beaten on the 21st hole in the Ladies ' Cup semi-final . |
| 22 | The Stewards yesterday reshaped the qualification requirements for the Ladies ' Plate , Thames Cup and the corresponding challenge cups for four-oared crews . |
| 23 | My actual first thatching was done at Chessington Zoo on the ladies ' loos when we were helping out a fellow franchisee with whom Eric had trained . |
| 24 | Since then ‘ Charity Golf ’ has been a consistent element in the Ladies ' calendar . |
| 25 | Ella made her way to the ladies ' end to replenish Violet Lovelock 's glass . |
| 26 | She wondered if she 'd walk out into a scene , or whether Ace had managed to extricate himself unscathed from the encounter as she left the relative comfort of the ladies ' room . |
| 27 | She was in urgent need of relief , and the only possibility was a chamber pot behind a screen in the ladies ' cloakroom . |
| 28 | Zoe Turner has an 18 point lead over Lisa Rowe in the ladies ' title race , while Neil King and Lucy Hollis head the novice tables . |