Example sentences of "to [be] a woman " in BNC.
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| 31 | As children , we all need a significant adult on whom we can truly depend : in our culture , for both boys and girls , that person is likely to be a woman , usually the mother . |
| 32 | ‘ So you want to be a woman , Schätzchen ? ’ he murmured . |
| 33 | ‘ If any of those bastards finds out that one of them is going to be a woman , there could be trouble , ’ Nicholson said flatly . |
| 34 | On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom . |
| 35 | Manjiku was the creature who wanted to be a woman ; the beast that stole children for his own because he could not give birth to them himself . |
| 36 | Yet he wants nothing better than to be a woman — ; |
| 37 | Gustave in young manhood : ‘ There are days when one longs to be a woman . ’ |
| 38 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 39 | There had to be a woman in the picture . |
| 40 | To be a woman was to be a shell-less creature , bereft and vulnerable . |
| 41 | Since the hero takes the castrato to be a woman and makes a sculpture of him/her in female form , castration is linked to problems of representation . |
| 42 | ‘ But then he told me he wanted to be a woman . |
| 43 | ‘ You are afraid to be a woman . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ Allow yourself to be a woman . |
| 45 | It had to be a woman , whoever it was was being so devious . |
| 46 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |
| 47 | David , who has spent £20,000 on treatments , clothing and devices to help him appear to be a woman , first realised he was different when he was six . |
| 48 | Tormented and frustrated by his yearnings to be a woman , the certain and shattering knowledge that he was caught in the wrong body , he finally decided the only answer was to have a sex change operation . |
| 49 | And now the man who yearned with all his heart for all his life to be a woman and who is just months away from radical surgery wants to remain a man . |
| 50 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 51 | This is based on a true story that shocked Paris society when a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer were imprisoned after the former was ‘ accused of passing information to China after he fell in love with Mr Shi , whom he believed for 20 years to be a woman ’ . |
| 52 | Had to be a woman something liking to horses |
| 53 | It 's hard to be a woman . |
| 54 | Jo Stephenson Jo Stephens happens to be a woman . |