Example sentences of "[art] woman [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would just to say , I think women , women are such victims of the fashion industry and I think there 's a lot more hype surrounding th the bride than there is surrounding the groom and er I think erm , you know th a lot more thought needs to go into the whole thing , there 's so much pressure on young people , particularly girls and there 's sa , so much idealism around the whole thing erm , and and there 's a lot of alternatives to marriage , you know , and this is discounted as th , the woman over there said , about being referred to as Mrs , particularly when you 're over a certain age if you 're not married . |
| 2 | I think the other one , about the woman across there said about , should start at home with sensuality and stuff and many of the young women that I work wi , I 've I 've heard very negative experiences of sex |
| 3 | For instance , if a woman ‘ failed ’ to conceive it was frequently attributed to the unfavourable environment provided by the woman for otherwise vigorous sperm . |
| 4 | ‘ As surely as the woman of yesterday was born to ride in a limousine , the woman of today was born to ride in an aeroplane ’ pronounced Vogue in the 1920s . |
| 5 | ‘ As surely as the woman of yesterday was born to ride in a limousine , the woman of today was born to ride in an aeroplane ’ pronounced Vogue in the 1920s . |
| 6 | In our depth interviews , for example ( Appendix II , section 5 ) , there was the man in trouble with the court already who could therefore not get HP — and who bought the settee he wanted with a trading check instead ( even costlier to repay ) , though he doubted his ability to pay it off and was still making payments through the court ; and the woman with so many debts to pay off , afraid of the ‘ loan man 's ’ visit because she finds it so hard to say no to his offers . |
| 7 | ‘ The silent nymph you were six years ago fascinated me , but the woman with so much to say for herself is infinitely more stimulating . ’ |
| 8 | A dozen times a day she pictured the woman with prematurely white hair who was now holding Angel to her breast , and she ached with longing to change places with her . |
| 9 | Miss Armstrong said the defendants were in some way prodding the woman from behind she swung round as if to hit the children with her bag and they ran off . |
| 10 | Two important exhibitions re-established the reputation of the association at this time : The Women of Today in 1929 and The Child in 1930 . |
| 11 | Salha was a woman of strong , open and reassuring character whose links with the women of nearly every household in Huaiwiri through her own daughters and her mother 's sisters ' descent in the women 's line ensured that she had influence in all households . |
| 12 | After breakfast , I sit in the outgoing waiting-room , facing the door , with Jackie and the women of yesterday morning clutching their knees and their overnight bags , looking pale . |
| 13 | But most of the women over there they , you could say they 're , they 're by the age of , of childbearing |
| 14 | The noisy chatter of the women in brightly coloured busuutis competed with the hammering of rain on the corrugated iron roof . |
| 15 | I will never forget entering the brilliantly lit theatre , gilded and hung with great chandeliers , and seeing the women in ethereally lovely dresses . |
| 16 | She was particularly fond , especially when asked her opinion on some current controversy , of quoting the words of Muhammad to Abu Said al-Khudri : ‘ Is n't the testimony of a woman worth only half the testimony of a man ? |
| 17 | " They told me " we 've never let a woman on before and we 're not going to now " and they did n't . " |
| 18 | A WOMAN with more than 20 years ’ research experience has joined Hampshire Training and Enterprise Council as head of information . |
| 19 | A woman with more than five hundred cacti has worked out a solution to the prickly problem of how to keep the plants looking at their best . |
| 20 | What do you call a woman with only one leg ? |
| 21 | I do n't like being without a woman for long . ’ |
| 22 | By the Saints , he must have been without a woman for too long , he thought wryly . |
| 23 | She is a woman of somewhere else . |
| 24 | The landlady , a woman of around forty or so , appears to regard me as a rather grand visitor on account of Mr Farraday 's Ford and the high quality of my suit . |
| 25 | In those days , a woman of about forty used to come to see Agnes 's father . |
| 26 | A woman of about 30 lurched out of the Post Office in front of us and staggered down the road a few steps before falling — her exposed thighs and palms making a sickening ‘ slap-smack ’ sound on the pavement . |
| 27 | The SOCO was a woman of about thirty . |
| 28 | Ahead of them , a woman of about sixty in a blue tracksuit pawed the ground in the jogger 's equivalent of neutral . |
| 29 | The spare chair in his office was occupied by a woman of about thirty dressed in an elegant black outfit . |
| 30 | A family with a long tradition of service at the head of which is a woman of very strong high moral values . |