Example sentences of "[prep] women " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not surprising that Koons began his career as a salesman , selling memberships for the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the late Seventies , following a stint of art school in Baltimore and a relatively nondescript youth in a small Pennsylvania town , where he listened to Led Zeppelin and ‘ chased after women ’ . |
| 2 | At the same time , another partnership , following a tradition to name its finds after women , has chosen the name Maggie despite pressure to keep the fields all male . |
| 3 | The names are interesting too , the city fathers deciding to name much of the outside ring after sites made legendary by exploits of Italian soldiers in World War 1 — Montenero , Premuda , Monte Grappa , and so on — while many of the inner ring streets were named after women famous in the history of the city — Regina Margherita , Beatrice d'Este , Bianca Maria , and so on . |
| 4 | He is n't after women 's bodies for only one thing , not Johnny . |
| 5 | He is after women 's bodies for all the other things too : love , spiritual communion , loss of self , exaltation . |
| 6 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
| 7 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 8 | Ms Jenny Wilson , a trustee of the charity , said research has shown that men have modified their sexual behaviour towards each other , but few towards women . |
| 9 | But anyway , we jumped to it and started to jive and I decided that we were quite sympathetic and we got along quite well — a similar sense of humour , and lewd attitude towards women — we just basically got along well . |
| 10 | He could also be very possessive , especially towards women . |
| 11 | Changing the law on mistake in rape could help to change these social attitudes , even though for some time to come defendants might find themselves charged with rape because of such ingrained attitudes towards women . |
| 12 | It had been part of the creed of childhood , indeed , the whole of life , unquestioned as so many other maxims were unquestioned , respect for parents and elders , the courtesy of men towards women and the inferiority of women to men , and original sin . |
| 13 | My task , as I now see it , is to communicate the true nature of my attitude or ( more important ) my actual behaviour towards women . |
| 14 | ‘ Penini knows I think it good that he is considerate and sensitive — he has been brought up to see no merit in violence , and when he is a man he will be as his father , entirely lacking in those so-called manly virtues of domination and arrogance towards women . ’ |
| 15 | I have to look after two dear little boys , but these days I can only see them growing up to behave so cruelly towards women . |
| 16 | Domestic violence will be the pretext to ‘ tackle ’ what Labour designates ‘ the perpetuation of stereotypical attitudes towards women in our educational system , the world of the media and society at large ’ . |
| 17 | When I changed my job recently I was appalled to discover that the attitude in the business world was still relatively unchanged towards women . |
| 18 | Some husbands , still angry with their mothers for childhood hurts , cheat on their wives as an expression of hostility towards women — and as a perverse way of getting even with their mothers . |
| 19 | But there has been little legislation directed specifically towards women . |
| 20 | But in 1985 27 per cent of all wives were working in full-time employment , and the trend towards women working is supported by public opinion , except when there are very young children at home . |
| 21 | Ever since his time as a medical student , he had been drawn towards women who were higher up the career ladder , revelling in both the challenge and the reflected glory when he succeeded . |
| 22 | Nor can it be decided exclusively because of changed values and attitudes of society towards women , significant though these are . |
| 23 | Sick of men being censured for their advances towards women JOHN HIND and STEVEN MOSCO told the papers they 'd formed MVTR : Men For Verbal And Tactile Rights . |
| 24 | Traditional and unquestioned attitudes towards women and your role may have to be changed … |
| 25 | Nationally union policy towards women in now more favourable than ever before . |
| 26 | Both these explanations fail to deal with the generalised nature of aggressive actions by men towards women . |
| 27 | Thirdly , it draws attention away from more serious explanations of sex crime in terms of those aspects of social organisation and gender relations which encourage so many men to engage in sexually aggressive behaviour towards women . |
| 28 | Conrad was well aware of the many facets of the word ‘ romance ’ — idealism towards women and events , the hero 's victory over extreme hazard , exotic details of place and circumstance . |
| 29 | Where Charles Margaret is moved by the chivalric ideal of honour towards women , Olivia 's sense of honour requires of her a complete loyalty to , and trust in , her husband . |
| 30 | The concept of honour as it appears in the adventure stones of the late nineteenth century was at least partly an artificial code belonging to the ruling or leisure classes , requiring a dedicated loyalty towards women , family honour and masculine comradeship which owed little to common sense or practicality . |