Example sentences of "woman who have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked exactly how she had wanted to look , like a woman who had dressed for a man , so why did she feel so unsure of herself now ? |
| 2 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 3 | Perhaps I 'm the first woman who has asked for their vote . ’ |
| 4 | At the end of the story , the lender admits ‘ It was paste ’ to the woman who has laboured for ten years . |
| 5 | There was a heavy irony in Lady Thatcher 's fulsome tribute to the women who had campaigned for the vote . |
| 6 | In their study of 41 women who had cared for their own mother before she died , Lewis and Meredith comment that to an outside observer ‘ the majority of respondents led remarkably restricted lives ’ ( Lewis and Meredith , 1988 , p. 87 ) . |
| 7 | Shortly after reading that I was fascinated to come across Hugh Seton-Watson 's account , in a book written 44 years ago , of how in Eastern Europe between the wars the word ‘ Communist ’ had become popular with the poor subjects of largely dictatorial regimes because their rulers used it as a term of abuse against ‘ ordinary men and women who have asked for reforms , protested against bureaucratic abuse , or resisted the gendarmerie in the execution of some wanton brutality . ’ |
| 8 | Generally a trend of sick leave or requests for transfers by other women who have worked for this person will emerge . |
| 9 | The Minister must know that , when Conservative Members attack local authorities , they are attacking — sometimes unconsciously — dedicated men and women who have fought for years to get first-class old folk 's homes . |