Example sentences of "woman had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews . |
| 2 | Earlier , Jean Southworth QC , for Mr Anderson , suggested that the woman had been ‘ hoisted by her own petard ’ . |
| 3 | Given this stark choice , the jury decided that the policeman had been deceitful rather than that the woman had been ‘ wicked and false ’ in her evidence . |
| 4 | He could tell his wife afterwards that another woman had been in there . |
| 5 | Professor Botha also said neither woman had been raped , although he added that further tests are to be conducted on the bodies . |
| 6 | The woman had been in the country for less than a week when she went to the beach at Umgababa , just south of Durban , after breakfast on Tuesday . |
| 7 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
| 9 | Tabitha wondered how long the woman had been scratching a living on the waterways , complaining to uncaring passengers , never quite summoning up the cash or the strength to take the long haul home . |
| 10 | Public protest followed a judge who fined a rapist 2,000 after asserting that the woman had been guilty of contributory negligence by hitch-hiking . |
| 11 | The Daily Mail headline — Greenham girl 's ride to death — concentrated on the fact that this 29-year-old woman had been involved in the Greenham peace movement . |
| 12 | The woman had been smuggled into the barracks under a coat . |
| 13 | He would have turned down millions if the woman had been ugly or ill-bred or disagreeable He liked Anna ; he thought she was charming and a credit to himself , and he meant to look after her . |
| 14 | An adult woman had been in labour for more than two days with her third child . |
| 15 | Until now , the woman had been careful not to reveal how she had witnessed what passed between him and that lovely creature at the docks . |
| 16 | He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her . |
| 17 | The next day the news was all over Fontanellato that the woman had been found dead with a rope round her neck . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was by pure chance that the other woman had been there , and Matthew was entirely innocent . |
| 19 | Josie was watching the space where the woman had been . |
| 20 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 21 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |
| 22 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 23 | That Rainford woman had been there . |
| 24 | This woman had been to jail because of her beliefs . |
| 25 | The existence of the woman had been confirmed by a female North Korean agent detained in South Korea after planting a bomb on a South Korean airliner in 1987 . |
| 26 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |
| 27 | A qualified nurse Pamela Armstrong said that she and two other woman had been running a stall in the Bootle Strand shopping centre . |
| 28 | ‘ The woman had been suffering from radiation sickness , but there was also evidence that she had been tortured . ’ |
| 29 | A 24 year old woman had been diagnosed five years previously and had persistent abdominal pain , diarrhoea , and ill health despite repeated courses of steroids . |
| 30 | The rate of symptomatic gall bladder disease roughly doubled once a woman had been pregnant . |