Example sentences of "woman who have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |
| 2 | ‘ How could a scrap of a woman who 'd never left the country get mixed up with some crazy Venetian ? |
| 3 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |
| 4 | ‘ A remarkable recovery , ’ drawled a young woman who had just joined the group . |
| 5 | A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher . |
| 6 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 7 | She took a deep breath , forced herself not to feel intimidated by the exceptionally well-groomed woman who had just entered the boutique , and ventured in . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A little further away was a young woman who had just arrived on her horse , with her maid on foot . |
| 10 | It follows from this that any woman who had previously had consensual sexual relations with a man would similarly be protected if on a subsequent occasion she refused consent and he raped her . |
| 11 | Would she like to spend her days with a woman who had already claimed a bit of her heart ? |
| 12 | Another woman who had already had her baby was in such fits of laughter that she split her stitches . |
| 13 | She had been in her mid-forties , a smart , efficient-looking woman who had hardly taken her eyes off him throughout the trial . |
| 14 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 15 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 16 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 17 | A woman who had never held her own child or even seen it . |
| 18 | A named and photographed woman who had apparently beaten off The Fox by biting him was a major story in one Sunday newspaper : ‘ her courage saved her from becoming another of Fairley 's rape victims ’ . |
| 19 | The invisible flutter and swoop of black creatures , still furious with the woman who had once banished them . |
| 20 | The only woman who had ever loved him . |
| 21 | I ca n't imagine that a woman who 's actually had an abortion wants to go through that again for any man 's convenience . ’ |
| 22 | Pregnancy itself is no longer believed to further weaken the immune system and increase the chances of a woman with HIV developing AIDS , although it may be less advisable for a woman who has already developed AIDS . |
| 23 | Professor Garrow 's studies show that a 10-stone woman who has just lost 20lb can eat the same amount — without gaining weight — as a 10-stone woman who has always weighed that amount . |
| 24 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 25 | How does it make someone like a woman who has just had an abortion feel having to go to a lavatory to express her grief in tears ? |
| 26 | Yet it is in precisely this sort of situation that a woman who has hitherto chosen to stay at home with her children may need to seek work . |
| 27 | ‘ You are n't afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born ? ’ asked Miss Havisham . |
| 28 | Professor Garrow 's studies show that a 10-stone woman who has just lost 20lb can eat the same amount — without gaining weight — as a 10-stone woman who has always weighed that amount . |
| 29 | I need to know where I can find a woman who has recently returned to her family after having run away with a man called Resenence Jeopardy . ’ |
| 30 | As almost every woman who has ever complained about jokes against women has been told , ‘ Where 's your sense of humour ? ’ |