Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | J.B. Because Father Curtis was there and I thought you know he wo n't want some married woman who goes round not wearing a wedding ring in charge of all these kids will he ? |
| 2 | It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland . |
| 3 | Before she died , she wrote another book — The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — about a woman who left her cruel husband . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A woman who left her manor house to the public in her will has had her dying wish denied . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Forty two year old decorated U D R veteran , Albert Cooper , was set up by a woman who left a booby-trapped car at this garage for repairs . |
| 8 | Fortunately for his pectorals and his cranium , Mr Stallone has yet to fall in love with a woman who likes men with small busts and large brains . |
| 9 | As far as I 'm concerned , it 's great to have a bisexual woman who likes having sex : the best bits are when Sharon Stone is naked . |
| 10 | The former solicitor general said that woman who bring false charges should be named . |
| 11 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 12 | An ex-student of mine , a white woman who looked pretty ‘ straight ’ in her school clothes , used to frizz her hair and play bass in an otherwise all-black , all-male band in the evenings . |
| 13 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 14 | An old woman who looked , as the flatterers said , remarkable . |
| 15 | We sailed , we climbed the precipice behind the villa , walked among the chestnut woods on the mountain slopes and came back to eat delicious Italian food cooked by the voluble old peasant woman who looked after the villa . |
| 16 | A weak woman who looked strong , he thought . |
| 17 | It was Justine , the young woman who looked after the children and who was like a sister to us . |
| 18 | Mercy Newbegin was a good-looking woman who looked even better in the light of the flickering candles . |
| 19 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 20 | ‘ Could you ask Francisco to find the woman who looked after the shop for me last time I was ill ? ’ |
| 21 | Nor can Kundry , a woman who saw Christ on his way to Calvary , and who is being used by a magician , Klingsor , to tempt Parsifal to fall into sensuality . |
| 22 | She was no longer the mild , gentle creature who had gone down on her knees to implore him to make her his wife , but a sturdy , tight-lipped puritan of a woman who saw duty before all else and who always took care to drum the same principle into her children . |
| 23 | This quoted the Roman Church 's instructions to its clergy to enquire , during confessions , exactly how , and how often , married couples made love , and alleged that a woman who committed adultery , confessed to it , and was absolved , could thereafter tell her husband that she was and always had been faithful to him . |
| 24 | Whenever I talk about these things anywhere in the country , I find that people who have been burgled or mugged , or have had items stolen from their vehicles would much prefer the young man or woman who committed the crime to do something to compensate or repay them instead of spending a brief time in prison , with all the disadvantages that that involves . |
| 25 | After childhood on Staten Island , New York , Elizabeth Robins lived in Zanesville , Ohio , with her paternal grandmother , a strong-minded woman who features in her semi-autobiographical novel , The Open Question ( 1898 ) . |
| 26 | When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy . |
| 27 | An extremely bright young woman who cared about other people to the depths of her soul . |
| 28 | But here again was a major institution in the land in clear conflict with the determined woman who bestrode government — and actually appointed bishops and archbishops as well ( though they often disappointed her ) . |
| 29 | In this myth Isis was a woman who longed to increase her magic powers and join the gods in order to rule over them . |
| 30 | Behind the public smiles Diana is a lonely and unhappy young woman who endures a loveless marriage , is seen as an outsider by the Queen and the rest of the royal family and is frequently at odds with the aims and objectives of the pervasive royal system . |