Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 2 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 3 | For what it 's worth , I think she 's an utterly compelling , beautiful woman who is struggling with herself and her confusion and just has n't learned how to channel her power yet . |
| 4 | We may identify people from a description of what they are doing : the woman who is chatting up the Admiral , the man who 's fixing the car , etc . |
| 5 | On ‘ Do n't Be So Hard ’ he appears to be empathising with a woman who is overpowered and made to feel insignificant by her partner : ‘ At home , she tells him little lies , like onions always make her cry . ’ |
| 6 | The handle is modelled in the round with a man engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman who is positioned on the shoulders of a kneeling figure . |
| 7 | Few things are more infuriating for a woman who is denied comfort for her own tears than to see her partner being sympathetically and sensually attracted to a strange woman who is grieving . |
| 8 | For example , one sage quoted by Bodine railed against the custom of saying that X and Y were married , or worse , that Mr X was married to Miss Y. Propriety would be better served , he pointed out , if this fact were always expressed in terms of the woman being married to the man , since it is the woman who is passed from father to husband and loses her identity . |
| 9 | They will ‘ see ’ the woman who is crying as herself and not as some emotional ghost from the past . |
| 10 | It 's a conscious decision and I think it 's important that men understand a woman who is offering an alternative lifestyle . |
| 11 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 12 | In the film , Helena is a woman who is rescued from a car accident by a doctor who then amputates her injured legs and unhurt arms and keeps her as a hostage in a box , hoping she will fall in love with him . |
| 13 | Particularly suitable for a woman who is spacing her pregnancies or who has completed her family , and for older women . |
| 14 | In her poem ‘ The Cruel Parent ’ , she describes the suffering of a young woman who is starved by her father . |
| 15 | The house was used as a workplace , both by the woman who is preparing vegetables and whose spinning wheel stands in the background , and by the shoemaker , whose tools and materials hang to the right of the fire . |
| 16 | There 's also no pressure to come or go , no one scorns the woman who 's left home five times and who still goes back , who loves her husband and wants to be wanted . |
| 17 | Alice , you 're talking to a woman who 's seen a skipfest on the Raven of October . |
| 18 | Libby Purves meets the woman who 's become the guru of children 's television — from Playschool to Playdays |
| 19 | ‘ Nor would I wish to lock swords with a woman who 's become so formidable . ’ |
| 20 | But I 'll have you know this cut-out lady is a woman in terrible pain ; a woman who 's leaving here because of a whim of her husband . |
| 21 | " People seeing Jeannie would say that 's a woman who 's sunk to the lowest depths , the dregs of humanity . |
| 22 | A woman who 's set up a cat sanctuary in her back garden is facing a battle to stay open , after neighbours complained to the local council . |
| 23 | ‘ For a woman who 's dying for it , you 're holding up extremely well , ’ said Rory . |
| 24 | No , it 's erm the woman who 's doing it ha also does a lot of research for Marks and Spencers you see so See , you did n't explain it to him very well . |
| 25 | You really do look like a woman who 's spent time making up with her lover now ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , as usual no doubt it 's the woman who 's left to take care of things . |
| 27 | ‘ Why is it always the woman who 's to blame , in your book ? ’ an angry Robbie wanted to know . |
| 28 | She 's arguing with the serving woman who 's lifted all the lids from the hot dishes to show her the succulent variety . |
| 29 | Greenwich Council is facing legal action for failing to house a young woman who was assessed as in need . |
| 30 | But the woman who was born the youngest of seven children in Tiger Bay in Cardiff has always lived life to the full . |