Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 2 | A little further away was a young woman who had just arrived on her horse , with her maid on foot . |
| 3 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 4 | A named and photographed woman who had apparently beaten off The Fox by biting him was a major story in one Sunday newspaper : ‘ her courage saved her from becoming another of Fairley 's rape victims ’ . |
| 5 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 6 | I need to know where I can find a woman who has recently returned to her family after having run away with a man called Resenence Jeopardy . ’ |
| 7 | As almost every woman who has ever complained about jokes against women has been told , ‘ Where 's your sense of humour ? ’ |
| 8 | That I am jealous of every woman who has ever slept with him . |
| 9 | It was a stylistic departure for Chloe but not one at odds with the image of the house or , more importantly , its feminine , peach-packaged floral fragrance familiar to every woman who has ever passed through a department store perfumery . |
| 10 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |
| 11 | Business chose women who had already got to the top in their careers , or were high-calibre middle managers still on their way up . |
| 12 | Of the 40 women who had never smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day , 12 ( 30% ) had the virus . |
| 13 | Even with no lesbian volunteers , some women continued to call ; women who 'd never heard of Lesbian Line , women who could n't call during the hours they were open , women who 'd swallowed media distortions of separatist groups , women who preferred the service or needed information Switchboard had . |
| 14 | But what of those luckier and more privileged women who have not suffered from policy dictated by what at its worst is a squalid pessimism ? |
| 15 | But the women who have n't bothered with make-up — unless they 've taken superlative care of their complexions — have now got skin that shows the ravages of time . |
| 16 | Another small number of women who have never heard of Lamaze , Velvovski or NW3 have the same experience . |
| 17 | A slightly different example of emotional support which is a routine part of women 's lives is provided by studies of women who have recently migrated to Britain . |
| 18 | Women who have only worked for part of their adult lives may not have enough contributions to get a full basic pension on their own record . |