Example sentences of "woman [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The huge woman came billowing down to the entrance hall , dressed in bright orange , which went uncomfortably with her recently revivified red hair .
2 A woman came stooping out of the felt-covered fowl-house , half-way down the garden ( 19 ) .
3 An elderly woman had appeared out of the kitchen which Edwards could see through the half-opened door at the end of the small hallway .
4 The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes .
5 Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace .
6 In the early 1970s , three-quarters of married women chose to opt out of the national insurance scheme .
7 The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed .
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