Example sentences of "the women had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of qualifying standards meant the women had none of the awkward choices which confronted the men , also enabling them to bring in experienced campaigners like Christina Cahill ( 1,500 metres ) and Wendy Sly ( 3,000m ) , despite both runners having had restricted summer seasons . |
| 2 | In their villages of origin the women had been regarded as contributing less to the economic position of the family than the men , but they had at least been recognised as crucial to the economic life of the community . |
| 3 | The women had nothing to do but flaunt their prosperity . |
| 4 | I asked Mahmood whether he thought the attitude of the male strikers towards the women had changed at all . |
| 5 | Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital . |
| 6 | They did not often do so , and the women had no recorded daughters , only sons . |
| 7 | After the first clash , when the crowd was halted in front of the police cordon , some of the women had argued with the police and told them that they too were victims of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 8 | If the women had been less busy she might have been seen while she was exploring , but with Lady Marion 's own baby due soon they had plenty of fine weaving and sewing to occupy their eyes . |
| 9 | But in South Africa , because male dancers were scarce , every available man willing to go on stage and hold up one of the women had to be encouraged and enabled to do so ; consequently , even the most rudimentary beginners were taught partnering . |
| 10 | They had all come back for lunch but the women had rebelled at going out in the afternoon . |
| 11 | But in times gone by , there 'd been a feast at ban pasāi ; the women had brought rice and huge copper pans to the forest . |
| 12 | The house would be warm ; the women had probably started the cooking . |
| 13 | The women had made great play with brooms and buckets , sweeping the pavement around the policeman 's feet till he was forced to jump over them to avoid being floored . |
| 14 | Although the European lesbian and gay community were angry at the police brutality , there was a widespread feeling that the women had behaved very stupidly , jeopardising themselves , their hosts , and the tour . |
| 15 | In Frome in the late 18th century , we may remember , the women had died young , leaving their bereaved husbands with youngsters to care for ; here in London that burden was to fall on young widows instead . |
| 16 | The Courts of Love would not have worked if the women had not created the qualities within themselves which those knights could respond to . |
| 17 | Two of the women had their throats slit after the rapes , ’ the report states.Victims have been assaulted in different situations , said Ms Hampson . |
| 18 | On inspection it turned out that the women had strong community ties through their membership of the local chapels . |
| 19 | And the feeling grew that the women had been outpersonoeuvred . |
| 20 | A senior manager agreed that because of staff shortages in the flat , planning and development for the women had taken second place to ‘ keeping people afloat ’ . |
| 21 | In two of the three cases which attracted most publicity the issue of whether the women had consented was an important component in the case , though in one of these there was an additional racial theme in the identification of the accused as black . |
| 22 | They renounced the women as sexual objects , even though their desires for the women had been the original motive for killing the father . |
| 23 | To make things worse the women had now discovered lice in their hair . |
| 24 | By then , the women had all become firm trade union supporters , staged solidarity strikes with a number of other factories and political stoppages to protest at the arrest of important opposition leaders . |
| 25 | A further fifth of the men and a quarter of the women had married the person with whom they first had intercourse . |
| 26 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 27 | lot , they , they thought that lot was set below them , that the women had to sort that side of things out and they erm really set a great |
| 28 | Ruth heard her words die away into silence , and knew the Women had been conquered . |
| 29 | Rather than only recording those instances of violence that the women had reported to official agencies such as the police , they explored a wide range of violent incidents from the women 's points of view . |
| 30 | They found that over the course of the year , two-thirds of the women interviewed reported experiences of sexual harassment , one-quarter of the women had experienced threats , and one-fifth , violence . |