Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [verb] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 3 | Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own . |
| 4 | She was only half Indian , her mother being a Viennese woman who had come to England as an au pair and married a doctor from Darjeeling , a surgical registrar in a Bradford hospital . |
| 5 | And then a woman who had come in to sell flowers to the customers overheard their conversation and intervened . |
| 6 | She had been part of a long stream of women who had come and gone swiftly , lives collapsing in one area as they gained power and certainty in another . |
| 7 | ‘ I could ring round , find some of the women who 've come out as Frankly Fat . ’ |
| 8 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 9 | Most women who have come , either as mums or as mums-to-be , have found the group useful for social & emotional support and also for practical swapping of ideas and solutions for the minor and not so minor problems we all have as new mums . |
| 10 | Most women who have come , either as new mums or as mums to be , have found the group useful for social & emotional support and also for practical swapping of ideas and solutions for the minor and not so minor problems we all have as new mums . |