Example sentences of "woman [prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 2 | ‘ Alexandra , you are a woman of property now . |
| 3 | Bo is a woman of desire again |
| 4 | Breathes there a woman with soul so dead that she can take a trip round Bath 's exhilarating architecture without wanting to take home ‘ a touch of the Georgians ’ — even if it 's only a silver spoon ? |
| 5 | Later we are shown a Black family crowded into one room with a man playing a calypso on a double bass ( ! ) , and a Black man and woman in bed together , who invite Kathie to join them . |
| 6 | But in the eyes of the law she is a woman in name alone |
| 7 | After haggling with the airline official and trying to make sure that I did n't have to pay the charges with foreign currency , the woman in charge suddenly said : ‘ All right , pay in Iraqi dinars ! ’ |
| 8 | Women for Socialism particularly wants to raise and strengthen the demands of women organising outside the labour movement , within it . |
| 9 | This is a witty , thoughtful , provocative film in which two women of colour exuberantly explore what it means to be black and beautiful . |
| 10 | We looked at the central role feelings play in our lives , and at the difficulties women with bulimia often have in expressing them . |
| 11 | She were , she 'd got a scooter bit similar to mine and she er were coming home and it were one of women from school actually one of women from school . |
| 12 | A growing body of literature is currently drawing attention to the disadvantaged position of women in society today . |
| 13 | In this sense the picture of the housewife which emerges in the present study not only bears on an understanding of the situation of women in society today ; it also illuminates one face of urban family life . |
| 14 | Women in Christianity today stand at the crossroads between two directions . |
| 15 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've seen women on stage here , ’ Owen objected . |
| 17 | There must have been hundreds of men and women at work there , but they all looked happy enough which cheered her . |
| 18 | He noted a high correlation between the literacy rate of young people in a country and the age of women at marriage there — ‘ The regions of the world where most of the people can read and write are those where women are not getting married too young ’ ( p. 14 ) . |
| 19 | Even in these latter years , ‘ Only three old women at church yesterday , ’ my father would greet me hopefully , as cars streamed past in all directions . |