Example sentences of "woman [vb past] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her . |
| 2 | The woman had been in the country for less than a week when she went to the beach at Umgababa , just south of Durban , after breakfast on Tuesday . |
| 3 | Women had been at the lowest end of Paul 's spectrum of the human race . |
| 4 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 5 | For some of them their changed lives had brought a realisation of what their roles as women had been in the past . |
| 6 | Jack was in his studio , and the two women had been in the drawing room watching a video-recording of Alison 's play about the ballet school . |