Example sentences of "a woman [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | An orthodox man is not allowed to hear a woman singing as this is felt to be seductive . |
| 2 | ‘ It ca n't be any colder than here , ’ a woman said as the thick snow froze ever harder on the icy roads . |
| 3 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 4 | A man and a woman watched as we came alongside with myself leaning over the side of the open bridge of Venturous . |
| 5 | In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare . |
| 6 | THE husband of a woman murdered as she sunbathed on a South African beach spoke of his fears last night that her killer may never be brought to justice . |
| 7 | I 've been thinking about what you said , that it 's very rare for a woman to feel as I do . |