Example sentences of "women had be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women had been at the lowest end of Paul 's spectrum of the human race . |
| 2 | Women had been on the paper since the beginning — with Maureen McGrath as news editor- and it had been women who had been providing the typesetting , the listings , the ad selling . |
| 3 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 4 | For some of them their changed lives had brought a realisation of what their roles as women had been in the past . |
| 5 | Jack was in his studio , and the two women had been in the drawing room watching a video-recording of Alison 's play about the ballet school . |
| 6 | Most of these women had been in what they called ‘ the therapy situation ’ for years . |