Example sentences of "woman who [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all about a woman who goes on holiday to a hotel in Switzerland . |
| 2 | After childhood on Staten Island , New York , Elizabeth Robins lived in Zanesville , Ohio , with her paternal grandmother , a strong-minded woman who features in her semi-autobiographical novel , The Open Question ( 1898 ) . |
| 3 | When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy . |
| 4 | She knows the woman who cleans for the Sheldrake practice , and the other day , while waiting in the bus shelter , they got talking about Dawn and Robert . |
| 5 | Though I too have my outside proof of a professional self , I too am a woman who stays at home . |
| 6 | You have recognized a woman who conforms to your stereotype — or more accurately , your archetype — of sexual attraction . |
| 7 | As the story of a white woman who rides into the Mexican mountains to be sacrificed , naked and unprotesting , to the god of the Indians in order to maintain for them ‘ The mastery that man must hold , and that passes from race to race ’ , this piece , particularly when contrasted with Sweeney Agonistes , makes clear the essential difference between Eliot 's interest in the savage and that of Lawrence . |
| 8 | Similarly , a woman who submits to sexual intercourse having been threatened with or fearing serious injury or death is not regarded as having consented . |
| 9 | Here is a woman who insists upon being treated with all the formality of royal protocol . |
| 10 | And she filmed Just Like a Woman , on general release later this month , in which she plays a woman who falls in love with a transvestite . |
| 11 | Besides — ’ his mouth took on a sardonic curve ‘ — what price would you put on your credibility — a woman who liaises with a married man , makes dates with him behind his wife 's back ? |
| 12 | It would mean you see me as a woman who happens to be in science , and not as a scientist . |
| 13 | Few people are aware how men , who on the whole are more socially , economically , politically , and physically powerful than women , use these resources frequently to batter wives and cohabitees ( Dobash and Dobash 1981 ) , sexually harass their female ( usually subordinate ) co-workers , or assault/rape any woman who happens to be in the way ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you have such an inflated idea of your own sex appeal you think you can grab any woman who happens to be to hand ? ’ |
| 15 | One day there will be a word for a woman without a husband or children that is not pejorative ; a single word that conjures up the image of a strong , sexual and feminine woman who revels in her voluntary freedom . |
| 16 | In the twelfth century , the author of Glanvill , describing the manner in which a complaint of rape was to be made , had the rape of virgins in mind when he wrote : ‘ A woman who suffers in this way must go , soon after the deed is done , to the nearest vill and there show to trustworthy men the injury done to her , and any effusion of blood there may be … ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 18 | When we 're researching our shows we explain the whole process very carefully to each woman who agrees to be interviewed ; they get paid for talking to us , they give feedback at all stages of the writing process — it 's very much done as a contract . |
| 19 | It 's nearly always a woman who talks about house plants ; it 's nearly always a man who talks about the real vegetable garden and has the gnarled fingers . |
| 20 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 21 | One married woman who moves in high society circles came forward during the nine-day trial and said Courtney had raped her . |
| 22 | The young woman who snaps at you when you ask if you can help her . |
| 23 | You are merely a woman who pretends to be fierce and , after all , you have been manoeuvred by men in spite of your supposed ability to take on all comers . |
| 24 | Mrs Pember Reeves , a member of the FWG , asserted that ‘ the woman who shrinks from the feeling that her wifehood is a means of livelihood will proudly acknowledge that her motherhood is a service to the state ’ . |
| 25 | Lesley of Silverfish has been portrayed in these very pages as crude , intimidating , loud , menacing , a woman who boasts about shagging exploits rather like a man . |
| 26 | ‘ She 's the sort of woman who lives for others — you can always tell the others by their hunted expression . ’ |
| 27 | They thought we misused the system when actually it was expensive in the first place and faulty , " said a middle-aged woman who lives on the estate . |
| 28 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 29 | ‘ I much prefer that the woman who lives with me call me by name . ’ |
| 30 | The victim of the attack on Friday was an 87-year-old woman who lives in Hart Lane . |