Example sentences of "woman who [verb] their " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 For example , in the 1946 birth cohort , women who had their first child at age 15–19 went on to produce an average of 2.8 by age 36 , compared to 1.9 children in all for mothers who had their first child between ages 28–30 .
3 For example , Phoenix , in her study of women who had their first child between the age of 16 and 19 , argued that contrasting the lives of Black and white women did little to illuminate their experiences of becoming a mother ( Phoenix , 1991 ) .
4 I daresay that as a result of your letter and my few words , I 'll have an angry response from men who 'll say , ‘ what about the women who abandon their children for other men ? ’
5 Only a tiny 7% of the male population do not shave regularly which is great news for women who prefer their men to be clean shaven .
6 In each place a crowd of men in blue overalls , each with a Gauloise stuck in the corner of his mouth , stared into the mirror behind the bar at the reflection of any women who braved their domain .
7 But at that time , too , women who reached their mid-forties were frequently exhausted by constant child-bearing and hard physical work .
8 Edwin Pettigrew was , like his sister , of sandy colouring , a kindly-looking man more interested in animals than in human beings , though he was an expert at calming and reassuring the agitated and often hysterical women who brought their animals to see him .
9 All women who experienced their first ever episode of symptomatic cholelithiasis ( International Classification of Diseases , 8th revision ( ICD-8 code 574 ) or cholecystitis ( ICD-8 code 575 ) were included in this analysis .
10 For instance , if clitorectomy often known as female circumcision — is a ‘ moral ’ requirement to serve male interests , it is nevertheless women who carry out , maintain and insist upon the practice , and it is women who express their moral offence if it is not carried out .
11 Women who combine their responsibilities in the home with a greater degree of participation in the labour market , together with men and women without those responsibilities will be subsidising them .
12 Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge .
13 Women who made their own preserves were able to obtain extra sugar in lieu of their jam ration .
14 The results are a blow for women who thought their long and hard-fought campaign would guarantee success .
15 Thus it has been estimated that one in four women who lose their jobs do not appear in the monthly claimant count .
16 Too often the role is left to a houseproud male or to the women who dig their own grave when entrapping themselves into a traditional duty , by doing it themselves out of resignation .
17 Defence of the Wild seven o'clock , folks on men and women who dedicate their lives protecting the worlds , the worlds wilderness
18 And often it was the women who sacrificed their own needs to satisfy those of the rest of the family .
19 For them , there may be few regular callers apart from the men and women who deliver their post and their milk .
20 Understandably , perhaps : women who deceive their husbands in order to attend political meetings are probably rare , even when they hold , as Richard and I did , different opinions from each other .
21 If I never did anything but sit in this room and powder my face and tell you what a clever fool you are , i should still be heavens high above the millions of common women who do their domestic duty , and sacrifice themselves , and run Trade departments and all the rest of the vulgarities .
22 Travelling around I noticed an intriguing fashion trend amongst the local women who do their shopping , driving and general housework in luminous green or orange hair rollers .
23 Ruth Grigg of the Family Planning Association , said : ‘ The temptation for women who have their Pills changed will be just not to bother with contraception at all or to use something that 's less effective . ’
24 The clash of symbols represented by Dixon and Rambo represents a more fundamental conflict between those policemen and women who emphasize their role in terms of crime-fighting , especially ‘ big crime ’ , and those who see themselves as having a public service and community welfare role .
25 The highest frequency was recorded for women who bore their first child ( nulliparous ) at ages 35–39 ( 14 per cent ) .
26 LIFELINES FOR WOMEN WHO JUGGLE THEIR LIVES
27 ‘ Black women who waste their time buying Woman 's Own and Cosmopolitan or reading silly love stories about blue-eyed guys .
28 I spoke to a number of women who started their working lives in the grant-aided film and video sector , to find out whether the personal choices they had made could be given any wider significance .
29 Women who feel their partners are more involved with their lingerie than with them definitely need to seek professional help .
30 There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow .
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