Example sentences of "woman who [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a biography of Jasper Carrot which I can hardly wait not to read , there is a biography of Cliff Richard written by a woman who hugged him once 20 years ago ( ‘ I would have married him if he 'd asked me ’ ) . |
| 2 | And Jesus , in his conversation with the Samaritan woman who asked him where true worship happened , answered that " God is spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth , " for " the time will come when neither here nor in Jerusalem will men worship " . |
| 3 | He opened the door to find a woman who asked him to speak to McAteer 's wife , Philomena , who was in his garden . |
| 4 | No man wants a woman who thinks she 's a man . ’ |
| 5 | A brave transgressive choice for a woman who felt she had reached her end . |
| 6 | Similarly , any woman who felt she had a potential claim as a result of a silicone breast implant was urged to consult with a solicitor as soon as possible . |
| 7 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 9 | Similarly , in Jefferson v Cape Insulation Ltd ( 3 December 1981 ) Farquharson J awarded substantial damages to a woman who knew she must soon die of mesothelioma for her evident distress in being parted from her family : per Farquharson J : I have also to bear in mind … that the major misery this woman is going to sustain is not the pain , serious and terrible as that is , but the prospect which must be continually in her mind of being parted from her family , and particularly her youngest child . |
| 10 | The woman who sells you a ticket at the bus office crosses herself for you as she makes it out . |
| 11 | The woman who drove you told us all about it . |
| 12 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 13 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
| 14 | He 'll be sorely missed by the woman who took him under her wing … |
| 15 | Now it 's facing controversy after the death of a French woman who took it . |
| 16 | Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's a crazed old woman who says she has visions . |
| 18 | I think my very very favourite though , was the woman who followed me falteringly around John Lewis 's Lighting Department , stopping when I stopped , and making me very nervous indeed . |
| 19 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 20 | The truth was , of course , that hard-nosed journalist though she was , Margie was as attracted to Hugo as was almost every other woman who met him and she actually wanted him to like her . |
| 21 | Gary should have been a girl , she had thought , for he was half a head smaller than she was with fair curling hair , baby-blue eyes and long thick lashes that were the envy of every woman who met him . |
| 22 | ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail . |
| 23 | At the end of this time , worn-down and aged far beyond her years , she meets the woman who lent her the necklace . |
| 24 | One was Susan Christie , the young woman who killed her . |
| 25 | Clare , knowing the woman who owned him , arranged for me to ride him . |
| 26 | However I could not become a sperm donor ( Letters NI 189 ) , especially if this would mean I would never know my child or the woman who bore it . |
| 27 | The Eighties career woman who had it all : looks , glamour , fast-track , moneyed lifestyle , husband , children . |
| 28 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 29 | He seems to think he has the moral right to usurp him , completely ignoring the woman who nurtured him through his last worst year . |
| 30 | They have a great deal of love and affection for the small stores , and the Minister will go down in history as the woman who wrecked them . |