Example sentences of "woman [was/were] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only time I spoke to the cameras was when me and another woman were in the kitchen and we had to sort of make a conversation . |
| 2 | A woman was in the act of opening the door of a pale blue Minor . |
| 3 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 4 | In 1988 , the average weekly spending for married couple households with children where the woman was not in paid employment was £230 per household , compared to £295 for similar households where the woman was in work . |
| 5 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 6 | Then he drove to tell police the murdered woman was in his car boot . |
| 7 | The last time Jean saw the woman was in the street , three months ago . |
| 8 | Everything he desired in a woman was in her . |
| 9 | ‘ Name of a fox , ’ said Blackbeard between his teeth , ‘ the woman was in the place and saw it handed to me . |
| 10 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
| 11 | But now he realised the woman was in control as she held his risen monster in her exquisite mouth , and in spite of the urgent movement of his thighs she devoured him as she pleased : sometimes allowing him into the back of her deep throat ; sometimes sipping at the helmet of his quivering phallus . |
| 12 | The woman was in her mid-thirties , dressed in a black trouser suit and white sweater . |
| 13 | No such ambivalent feelings characterised the firm belief — sanctioned by Victorian science and medicine — that the place of the middle class woman was in the home . |
| 14 | The woman was in a white dress with thin bronzed arms , and thin goldened hair in a page-boy cut with a white band round it to match the dress , and good legs and shoes . |
| 15 | The woman was in obvious distress . |
| 16 | The next minute Guido was out of the car and the young woman was in his arms , kissing him on both cheeks , obviously delighted to see him . |
| 17 | and this woman was in her |
| 18 | Obviously this was done out of self interest , but I really , the woman was in real pain . |