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Example sentences of "woman [adv] " in BNC.

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1	‘ Everywhere , ’ said the woman intensely .
2	Relief flooded in when after a quick glance to the card , which clearly meant nothing to her , the woman politely uttered , ‘ Prosím za prominutí , ’ and disappeared .
3	Despite such professional guidance this plump middle-aged woman laughingly recalled ‘ being legless at the Village Hall dances , all at the age of thirteen .
4	Like when a woman slowly unbuttoned her yellow clothes , let them fall down around her waist .
5	‘ You 're a terrible woman altogether to be leading a fellow on like that !
6	Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top .
7	‘ Her social position has rendered woman keenly percipient of every thought and action beautiful or graceful , … taught from infancy to subjugate her passions and affections , her thoughts , her looks , her language kept under control …
8	‘ She is always missing , ’ said the old woman querulously .
9	Late forties , husband left her for younger woman most likely .
10	It starred an ensemble of TV players , and its director was a woman most famous for the only true Los Angeles punk movie .
11	big massive fat woman right , and she was just walking about this conference , you know where she 's not supposed to be , and all these shoulders stab her right ?
12	the woman right .
13	Shh yeah she 's guilty , she 's a woman right here we go , shh , got ta get the sound up , urgh
14	Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively .
15	Fabia exclaimed , and still did n't want to believe it , even when the woman vigorously nodded her head .
16	‘ The captain was only a human being , ’ she recalled , ‘ and it was inevitable that he would choose one woman rather than another . ’
17	The fact that you fantasise about a woman rather than a man is neither here nor there in these circumstances .
18	She argues that the creation of woman is the climax of the story , that the phrase ‘ helper ’ connotes equality , and that man ‘ discovered a partner in woman rather than a creature to dominate ’ .
19	They look after the pregnant woman rather than ‘ the pregnancy ’ and are a source of practical and emotional support as well as health care to the woman and her baby .
20	Happily she chose these occasions to appear in the form of a young woman rather than her more usual guise of a cow .
21	A woman rather shy of men , whose eyes did not quite meet his when he looked at her .
22	In ( 2 ) , for instance , the idea of unmanly seems to correspond to what caused the person represented as the support of the infinitive to perform the action of treating a woman badly , and the sentence suggests that the speaker did not expect such unmanly behaviour from the person he is addressing .
23	A WOMAN badly injured when she was hit by a police car on a pedestrian crossing is likely to lose half of a £48,500 damages award after an appeal court ruling yesterday .
24	Ignoring her , the captain ordered his men to carry the body aft , and the woman eventually rose and hobbled after them , still sobbing piteously .
25	Shacked up with some woman somewhere .
26	‘ I figured , ’ Damian said with a hard smile , ‘ that there must be a woman somewhere in the world who could be both .
27	Somewhere in a room above them , a woman gently crooned the tune of a lullaby .
28	It is totally private , there is no need ever to leave it and I swear the Japanese woman opposite never did .
29	She managed to get it right by watching the woman opposite to her .
30	He demanded to know of another ambassador 's wife , no longer young , what kind of impression an old and unfashionable woman like her must give of Britain abroad : why could n't she look as attractive as the young woman opposite ?