Example sentences of "that [adj] woman had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that each woman had packed up her own cake to bring to the fête . |
| 2 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 3 | A few weeks ago , the dream was slightly different , in that some woman had set her sights on him , flattered him — at least , that was his defence . |
| 4 | But there was no doubting the fact that this woman had a powerful and disturbing sexuality , which she used with an expertness that was almost professional . |
| 5 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 6 | He could tell his wife afterwards that another woman had been in there . |
| 7 | He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her . |
| 8 | Behind this superficial and meaningless acknowledgment lay the galling assumption that Irish women had come to England to learn about ‘ real ’ feminism . |
| 9 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 10 | In particular , these local surveys suggested that the fear that young women had concerning sexual assault was quite justified . |