Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meetings were arranged , outings were planned and tempting offers were put to a woman who felt neglected by a husband whose naval duties seemed to be more important to him that his wife . |
| 2 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 3 | We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) . |
| 4 | Their task was to rescue a seriously injured woman who 'd fallen several hundred feet in difficult weather conditions . |
| 5 | ‘ I met a woman who 'd borne Jeopardy 's child . |
| 6 | funny thing there was a letter in the paper though er in the Legal last night and it was some woman who 'd written to say that erm , this little girl had collected two , over two hundred signatures for erm the er anti hunting |
| 7 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 8 | Faces from the past seemed to come back and taunt him — Carmina Twist , the gypsy-eyed temptress from his university days ; Vauxhall Nova , his first great love , the woman who 'd taught him to say ‘ When ’ ; Lal Basingstoke — big , blonde , beautiful , inexhaustible , extremely tiring Lal Basingstoke . |
| 9 | He did not reply to my question but shuffled a paper and looked at his sidekick , the same woman who 'd visited with him before . |
| 10 | She was a tall , nervous woman who 'd gone grey early ; she always wore large bifocals and usually dressed in tweeds . |
| 11 | As Marianne walked to the door , she turned away , unable to look at the woman who 'd brought her world crashing about her ears like a fragile house of cards . |
| 12 | Turning around , she found herself facing the dark , handsome-looking woman who 'd arrived with Ross Aldridge and whom Diane assumed to be his wife . |
| 13 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 14 | She began to wonder if the woman who had sent the box-message had tricked her here into this dead-end room . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Dame Caroline Haslett was a remarkable woman who had trained as an engineer and was founder-director of the Electrical Association for Women . |
| 19 | Who , because of his grandmother 's warped mind , would never know the kind and gentle woman who had borne him . |
| 20 | As she could not afford to keep a nanny or an au pair , having permanently available a woman who had borne and reared ten children , together with a woman who had been one of them , had been to Scarlet a godsend . |
| 21 | Cleo was convinced her search for the holy man should begin with the mad woman who had borne his child . |
| 22 | A woman who had liked and respected her husband , and dearly loved her daughter . |
| 23 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 24 | A young blonde woman who had tripped against a Sellsword was shoved by him and sent flying across the roadway . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But the efficient-looking woman who had manned the reception desk on Folly 's previous visit was not yet at her post . |
| 27 | Also , Tilly had decided that she could not now reveal the news she had brought with her this morning ; shocking news , news that told how Richard had been cheated and deceived by his own wife … and devastating news of Beth … how she was not safe and happy with Tyler Blacklock , as they had first thought , and how she also had been betrayed , both by her own brother Ben , and by the woman who had raised her from a child . |
| 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 | On March 5 , 1986 , the bank hired a male candidate who obtained a mark of 46.50 and subsequently it hired another six male candidates who had obtained marks between 46.50 and 42 while it did not hire the claimant , a woman who had obtained a mark of 48 . |
| 30 | Carrie was cast to play Mrs Fezziwig and the young woman who had fallen in love with the youthful Scrooge while Ginnie hid in the school happily making costumes with Miss Thorne 's older sister . |