Example sentences of "the woman [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , if a woman were to have sexual intercourse with a boy under 16 , this would be the offence of indecent assault by the woman even if the boy consented to , or instigated , the act . |
| 2 | The woman just stared at him . |
| 3 | Oh dear oh it 's down about here when , did it the other day , and the woman just drove out straight in front of me from another lane |
| 4 | The woman also noted that he spoke with a distinctive accent , possibly Irish . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you look forward to having a baby again ? ’ asked the woman intently , ‘ or do you prefer them when they 're older ? |
| 6 | Why could n't the woman simply say ‘ womb ’ , Celia thought . |
| 7 | Alida wished the woman away . |
| 8 | She was going to insist on driving the woman away from Nice , because Barbara Coleman must be taken out of the clutches of Maurin and anybody else who interfered with her liberty . |
| 9 | He read her mind and drew the woman away , leading her down the room to a comfortable chair . |
| 10 | Carradine dropped a few coins — ducats , I think — into the puddle and waved the woman away . |
| 11 | No one tried to shunt the woman away to let Riley get on with his work . |
| 12 | The penis here , the vagina there , the man on top , the woman here , there and everywhere . |
| 13 | The woman here is a demented nanny who is surreptitiously breastfeeding the child of the mother she intends to destroy . |
| 14 | I can totally agree with the woman here just now , what she 's saying but the woman at the back of me just now , she 'd said about lesbianism , this is a different thing entirely . |
| 15 | It was all too late now and with the woman here , right in front of her , it seemed so pointless to feel animosity . |
| 16 | She forgot the woman outside . |
| 17 | ‘ Hi , ’ the woman outside said . |
| 18 | But the woman soon discovers that her husband is bored . |
| 19 | I had to go upstairs to tell the woman above that I was using the bathroom , because if she walked about above , the plaster fell off . |
| 20 | Ignoring her , the captain ordered his men to carry the body aft , and the woman eventually rose and hobbled after them , still sobbing piteously . |
| 21 | They suggest that this causes a vicious circle for women : the fear of violence leads women to greater dependency upon a known male ; dependency makes the woman particularly vulnerable to attack from this male , because he has no fear of retaliation ; when women go to the police about such attacks nothing is done ; consequently many women consider that the police are unhelpful , and this reinforces women 's fear of violence and dependence upon individual male protectors . |
| 22 | ‘ And I suppose you do n't know anything about the woman either ? ’ |
| 23 | The woman barely acknowledged Christina , and continued talking to Stephen , thrusting her abundant cleavage closer to him with every word . |
| 24 | Personally , Kael is said to dominate an awestruck group of colleagues collectively dubbed ‘ Paulettes ’ , but it 's hard to equate the woman genially holding forth in her modest office at the New Yorker with the flinty matriarch of legend . |
| 25 | ‘ Everywhere , ’ said the woman intensely . |
| 26 | ‘ Be off with you ! ’ he said to the woman sternly . |
| 27 | ‘ My dear , the woman no longer does even that . |
| 28 | the woman right . |
| 29 | ‘ Really ? ’ said the woman anxiously . |
| 30 | ‘ Must be the sea air , ’ said the woman briskly . |