Example sentences of "woman he " in BNC.

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1 Amis writes here , as he has written in other books , about the distance between men and women ; here , too , is the trouble that awaits the rational hedonist who deceives the woman he lives with and loves .
2 He even introduced Andrew to the woman he would marry .
3 Waiting in the Methodist Hall to rehearse the roles of CS Lewis and the woman he spent three blissful years with before her death , Joy Davidman , were Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Lapotaire , another pair of stars not usually to be found out west .
4 As for Mozart himself , who had married the sister of the woman he loved , the subject of Cosi must surely have given him food for thought .
5 Patrick himself made a statement to my sister which I 've got on tape , saying he 'd been discarded by the woman he married .
6 In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe .
7 Freud argues that the man who is sexually jealous of a woman would ‘ not only feel pain about the woman he loves and hatred of the man who is his rival , but also grief about the man , whom he loves unconsciously , and hatred of the woman as his rival ’ ( ‘ Some Neurotic Mechanisms ’ , x. 197 — 8 ) .
8 It was some time before Wexford could decide whether it was a man or a woman and when he realised it was a woman he called out a brisk , cheerful good night so that she should not be afraid .
9 In one , during the Pandava brothers ' exile , Arjuna , cursed and unmanned by a woman he has rejected , dances and camps it up like a drag-queen in warpaint .
10 He said she wrote better letters than any woman he knew — ‘ only it is a different letter each time you read it . ’
11 ‘ He 'd tell me I was the nicest woman he 'd ever been with .
12 He had always said that Rose Lacson , the woman he met in one of Manila 's finest hotels and brought back to live in a mansion that she designed , would inherit his iron-ore wealth .
13 And so it goes on until he boards a ship about to set Voyager ( 15 , Curzon West End , 113 mins ) Europa ( 15 , Chelsea , Everyman , 114 mins ) sail for France and meets Sabeth , the pony-tailed young woman who is his ‘ fate ’ , leading him back to the woman he once loved and to his own Greek tragedy .
14 For Swift , of course , the disillusionment will come when the man discovers that the woman he worshipped as a goddess is only too physical , as in ‘ The Lady 's Dressing Room ’ :
15 MORE than any other woman he had met , Beatrice was able to share in Modigliani 's life , and his work changed dramatically during her reign .
16 In the presence of a lovely woman he was carried away and , ignoring her husband completely , presented Lunia with the finished sketch and invited her to go out with him that evening .
17 For the Scarlet Woman he had Pamela Chrimes , who went to London soon afterwards and was a dancer good enough to be engaged before long as a soloist in the new Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet .
18 He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen .
19 Henry could n't think of a woman he disliked apart from Elinor .
20 ( Lk. 19.8 , 9 ) With the Samaritan woman he directed discerning answers to her questions and discerning questions to her statements .
21 But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life .
22 A hundred years ago , he had saved the life of the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim ; a century later , Karelius reflected , an infinitely less important Englishman had again owed his life , besides that of the woman he loved , to one of the Hapsburgs ' men .
23 He had gone out to the pub a couple of times with some old friends and was thinking of taking out a young woman he had met .
24 Here in these dirty streets , a lonely English clerk : his wife and child dead , years gone : the only woman he had ever loved since , a convicted murderer and traitor , consumed by fire at Smithfield in London .
25 Jean de Vaubrun rode to Edinburgh from France in the autumn of 1792 [ or possibly 1793 ] , never pausing in his search for the woman he loved .
26 And then , with terror that was not his own , he was alive again , in the sweet blackness , and Mouse clung desperately , only to be wrenched back to the red deathly peace , hearing an endless scream as a woman he had never seen died , died endlessly and now .
27 Easily the oldest woman he 'd ever been with .
28 A man takes a friend to meet a woman he knows .
29 There were two servants still : the woman he had glimpsed , and a steward more frail and more sullen .
30 No one could have known that he no longer heard the park sounds for the pounding in his temples , or that his feet felt iron-clad as he walked away from the woman he longed to hold in his arms .
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