Example sentences of "woman who had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother tried to persuade the woman who had received the letters to let her talk with this guard ; a man who was actually in touch with her husband . |
| 2 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 3 | He hugged Cameron and said , ‘ Mister Campsie , Mister Campsie ’ — his voice cooed on a high note , not his at all , as though he was possessed by the spirit of a woman who had nursed him once . |
| 4 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 5 | SPECIAL interpreters assisted yesterday at the opening of a unique trial at Cardiff Crown Court , where a deaf man was accused of murdering a deaf woman who had speech difficulties . |
| 6 | I had one from an 80-year-old woman who had carried the secret all her life ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | for example , BBC Television on the evening of the 11 July Day of Action , and the papers next morning , were full of pictures of injured policemen , but the pickets who were injured were hardly mentioned , although among them was a man who had had an epileptic fit , a woman who had collapsed at the rear entrance to the factory and two Yorkshire miners who had to be carried away by their friends . |
| 9 | The neighbours , once in the picture , were kindness itself — though the woman who had rung me , standing smoking on the steps , shouted after me : ‘ Took your bloody time , did n't you . ’ |
| 10 | He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex . |
| 11 | They should not think her a woman who had let herself go . |
| 12 | As an example of the difficulties this can cause , I was working with a 33-year-old woman who had a rapidly progressing terminal condition . |
| 13 | It is one of the greatest examples of the age of a woman who had stern awareness that high birth was indeed a matter of high responsibility . |
| 14 | Her problem was to find the reason for her wanderings — was she botanist , naturalist , ethnologist , geologist , or , as Dea Birkett decides , a woman who had to make an impression ? |
| 15 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 16 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 17 | Yet a woman who had lost a husband or failed to get one at all , might find herself in genuine distress . |
| 18 | As a woman who had chosen not to marry , Leapor looked for constancy primarily in relation to friendship . |
| 19 | And he looked directly at the woman who had been the origin of his biting anger and smiled again . |
| 20 | This time the interruption came from a man in the front row of the audience , a tall man who was leaning forward , and George looked at him , feeling less hostility than the woman who had shouted at him earlier had created ; and then he realized it was because he spoke in an educated voice . |
| 21 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 22 | After more anxious discussion , the woman who had come down with the leaves , bony and greyish of skin with her hair wrapped in a yellow turban , poured half , then all the small bottle of gin into the steaming mixture and ceremoniously put it in the centre of the floor . |
| 23 | The matron was a sceptical young woman who had seen many different injuries in her short time at the school and heard many bizarre explanations for them . |
| 24 | Madame could not help but admire any woman who had gained access to enough money , either early or late in her career , to be able to laugh and to leave people . |
| 25 | Only if their teacher were with them were they allowed to cross the dusty lane to play on the greater green , for Miss Watson was a woman who had no doubt at all that each and every pupil would be run over and either maimed or killed outright if she were not there to keep an eye on their movements . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Of being searched in shops ; of police moving groups of young people if they were black ; of the woman who had screamed at her , ‘ Go away ! |
| 28 | It could n't have been very nice for her , thought Karelius , seeing her sister substituted by a woman who had obtained cheap success by such a blatant display of sexuality . |
| 29 | She was a beautiful woman who had found him attractive , or at least pretended to do so . |
| 30 | She was a most responsible woman who had been abroad with her husband on service before the war . |