Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 2 | There was a knock on the door , and when I said " Come in " the middle-aged woman who 'd been treated so rudely by Lennis in the morning appeared hesitantly . |
| 3 | She thought of the tragic woman who 'd been deserted by her father and had settled for second best . |
| 4 | And , an added bonus , in the house of the woman who 'd been seduced by her grandfather ! |
| 5 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 6 | ‘ We were contacted last Friday by a woman who had been asked by this man to make a donation to War on Want . |
| 7 | Here was a woman who had been trying to have a child ever since her marriage and yet she , Celia , had conceived not merely without any difficulty but on the one and only time she had not taken steps to prevent it . |
| 8 | At San Vicente Hospital , when I went to give birth , I met a young woman who had been coerced and she only had three children . |
| 9 | Last week , in contrast , a Florida jury cleared a vagrant accused of the rape of a 22-year-old woman who had been snatched from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant car park while wearing a white mini-skirt and , so the jury was informed , no underwear . |
| 10 | And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help . |
| 11 | I have had difficult cases , like the woman who had been given a Caesarean operation : giving birth after that kind of operation is very delicate , but it turned out all right . |
| 12 | Fran 's voice rose to a shrill scream , and the elderly woman who had been watching them curiously stopped . |
| 13 | The third patient was a Jewish woman who had been born in Tunisia ( a cluster of cases of the mutation has occurred in such patients ) ; she did not have any known familial history of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ) . |
| 14 | Later , much later , when she had occasion to meet a policeman 's wife , a woman who had been beaten up by her husband for taking a lover on the nights he was on duty , the wife said to her , ‘ Well , you ought to understand . |
| 15 | At the end of the recording , the woman who had been showering him with questions observed the following : ‘ I have never done such a difficult interview . |
| 16 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 17 | An occasional man or woman who had been stabbed or beaten or strangled but who , far more often than not , had simply gone without food for a week or two , and given up . |
| 18 | Successes have included gaining removal expenses for a woman who had been refused them , and furniture from Calderdale Voluntary Services for another woman who was not entitled to a Single Payment from the DHSS . |
| 19 | ( S. ) 487 , where a young woman who had been raped took part in an attack on the man responsible , after he had been released from a sentence of 18 month 's imprisonment after serving six months . |
| 20 | One day , however , Mirabeau was to prove a coward : Flaubert reports that he funked his task when faced with a woman who had been guillotined . |
| 21 | A shopkeeper had a dispute with a customer , a woman who had been waiting for a bus had popped in to mention parking on the footpath at weekends , the school had organised some Maypole dancing and wondered if part of the car park could be cordoned off , somebody else wanted vehicle watch forms . |
| 22 | There had been no poverty at all , no necessity to move except the necessity of a woman who had been driven by some perverse whim to deny her former husband the right to see his daughter . |
| 23 | A campesina woman who had been forced to move into the capital because her brother had been taken a political prisoner , had participated in the UN ) : |
| 24 | An elderly woman who had been missing and feared dead is recovering in hospital after a helicopter search found her . |
| 25 | There was no one in the village who would own such a pet and the Lady Prioress is quite strict with her community on that , so I knew it must belong to the young woman who had been murdered . ’ |
| 26 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 27 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 28 | Yeah , she 's great — she has split up from her husband and works for her and the kids , a really independent woman who 's been messed around by men and is now looking after herself . |
| 29 | ‘ Dewy-eyed , flushed , like a woman who 's been held and kissed and wants to be kissed again . ’ |
| 30 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |