Example sentences of "to the lady ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 2 | In the interests of discretion , he waited until nearly twelve-thirty before creeping round to the ladies ' corridor . |
| 3 | Then a young woman — dark , quite a looker if you liked that sort of thing but a bit too full of herself for Bennett 's liking — walked into the club and announced that she was the dinner guest of Sir Robin Day , he could only treat her to his coldly disapproving smile and direct her to the ladies ' bar . |
| 4 | She followed her to the ladies ' washroom . |
| 5 | With a white , set face , she left the office and went straight to the ladies ' powder-room , breaking down in private and crying silent , bitter tears . |
| 6 | Ella made her way to the ladies ' end to replenish Violet Lovelock 's glass . |
| 7 | He also quoted £45 for building a staircase and balcony on to the ladies ' room . |
| 8 | At one point , Joan rose from the table and went to the ladies ' room . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 14 | Jane Postlethwaite went happily up the steps of the club house and off to the ladies ' room . |