Example sentences of "woman [pron] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And he looked directly at the woman who had been the origin of his biting anger and smiled again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was a most responsible woman who had been abroad with her husband on service before the war . |
| 5 | Vaguely she wondered why the daily woman who had been with them for years had not put in an appearance before now , and listened in vain for the cheerful clatter of tea-cups in the passage outside . |
| 6 | Here was a woman who had been trying to have a child ever since her marriage and yet she , Celia , had conceived not merely without any difficulty but on the one and only time she had not taken steps to prevent it . |
| 7 | At the end of the recording , the woman who had been showering him with questions observed the following : ‘ I have never done such a difficult interview . |
| 8 | And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help . |
| 9 | Later , much later , when she had occasion to meet a policeman 's wife , a woman who had been beaten up by her husband for taking a lover on the nights he was on duty , the wife said to her , ‘ Well , you ought to understand . |
| 10 | The spirited young woman who had been as eager for life as he was ? |
| 11 | A woman who had been up getting herself a glass of water heard the commotion and ran out into the street . |
| 12 | Asked for her views on the exhibition , one elderly woman who had been friends with many of the Expressionists described it as ‘ both exciting and deeply moving ’ . |
| 13 | Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside . |
| 14 | She wrote that a woman who had been a comp for eleven years had told her that the subject of a union had never been mentioned to her before . |
| 15 | I have had difficult cases , like the woman who had been given a Caesarean operation : giving birth after that kind of operation is very delicate , but it turned out all right . |
| 16 | At San Vicente Hospital , when I went to give birth , I met a young woman who had been coerced and she only had three children . |
| 17 | A campesina woman who had been forced to move into the capital because her brother had been taken a political prisoner , had participated in the UN ) : |
| 18 | ( S. ) 487 , where a young woman who had been raped took part in an attack on the man responsible , after he had been released from a sentence of 18 month 's imprisonment after serving six months . |
| 19 | No sooner one woman in the grave whom he had cheated on , a woman who had been miserable enough to kill herself , than he was in bed with another . |
| 20 | The third patient was a Jewish woman who had been born in Tunisia ( a cluster of cases of the mutation has occurred in such patients ) ; she did not have any known familial history of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ) . |
| 21 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 22 | One day , however , Mirabeau was to prove a coward : Flaubert reports that he funked his task when faced with a woman who had been guillotined . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 25 | He was the son of a woman who had been a nightclub singer and briefly married to Juan Gómez , that was all my tired mind seemed able to grasp . |
| 26 | An occasional man or woman who had been stabbed or beaten or strangled but who , far more often than not , had simply gone without food for a week or two , and given up . |
| 27 | Yet how could one possibly become acquainted with his wife , Marie , a woman who had been on the stage and who , it was known , had lived with him in adultery while waiting to be divorced ! |
| 28 | There was no one in the village who would own such a pet and the Lady Prioress is quite strict with her community on that , so I knew it must belong to the young woman who had been murdered . ’ |
| 29 | Mark 's face brightened for he remembered who Miss Broome was — a nice-looking youngish woman who had been to church the last two or three Sundays . |
| 30 | The same woman who had been with him on Saturday . |