Example sentences of "woman who [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she died , she wrote another book — The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — about a woman who left her cruel husband . |
| 2 | A woman who left her pet greyhound in agony rather than take it to a vet after it broke its leg in a road accident has been banned from keeping dogs for seven years . |
| 3 | A woman who left her manor house to the public in her will has had her dying wish denied . |
| 4 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 5 | A man might marry a woman who echoes his relationship with his mother . |
| 6 | She is an extraordinary young woman who dares her difficulties with great fortitude and makes every effort not to show her unhappiness to those around her . |
| 7 | Mr Jordan 's advice to any woman who thinks her doctor has behaved unprofessionally or asked her to do something humiliating is to refuse straightaway and report the incident . |
| 8 | He seemed to have let out sufficient steam and resentment for the moment and turned to flirt obligingly with a middle-aged woman who touched his arm in pleased anticipation . |
| 9 | Shirley giggled and said I was a woman who knew her own mind , was n't I , Jim ? |
| 10 | However , lesbians are more likely than men to feel ambivalent about their own bodies and may feel it especially difficult to desire a fat woman who embodies their own fears . |
| 11 | A woman who fought her way to the top of a liberation movement which traditionally had been the preserve mainly of men . |
| 12 | Sooner or later Rebecca would learn that her trust in him was unfounded , that she had to share him with any woman who took his fancy . |
| 13 | Nicolo Sabatini still thought she was a woman who supplemented her income through occasional dalliances with men willing to pay for the pleasure of her company . |
| 14 | and simply batty … the woman who takes her baby bats for a bike ride . |
| 15 | I have much more reverence for a common prostitute than a woman who conceals her guilt . ’ |
| 16 | A woman who offers her body commonly for any lewd act for reward is a common prostitute . |
| 17 | Everyone — from the woman who stamps your passport , through the taxi driver , to the hotel receptionist — talks constantly and instinctively about rugby . |
| 18 | Volumnia can easily be played as a sexless harridan : Ms Jefford interprets her as a passionate woman who dominates her son physically as well as spiritually , even to the extent of giving his face a resounding slap when he is recalcitrant . |
| 19 | Magistrates used the in loco parentis provision of the Criminal Justice Act to impel the authority to compensate the 78-year-old woman who had her bag snatched by the youth . |
| 20 | Her critics — and they will be many — will say all this is at best manufactured recollections , the distorted memories of a bitter and angry woman who had her fling with a priest , and has paid the price . |
| 21 | We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) . |
| 22 | Thieves made off with the loan car of a woman who had her vehicle stolen . |
| 23 | She also employed a woman who let her guests in and out and offered them a glass of wine while they waited . |
| 24 | They are characterised by the woman who clucked her disapproval to a minister of my acquaintance about an instance of Sabbath breaking . |
| 25 | ‘ Another woman who does your cleaning , Bob ? ’ |
| 26 | This May-brick woman who finished her hubby off with fly-papers . |
| 27 | He adds : ‘ In our own time , a married woman who dislikes her husband 's advances can leave the marriage . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You 're the woman who hates my dad . ’ |
| 29 | The book , For Love Alone , tells the story of a Czech woman who loses her husband to a leggy , honey-blonde with a soft Southern drawl . |
| 30 | Soon afterwards , the caretaker in Medwin House was wakened by an elderly woman who said her first-floor flat was full of thick smoke . |