Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sailed , we climbed the precipice behind the villa , walked among the chestnut woods on the mountain slopes and came back to eat delicious Italian food cooked by the voluble old peasant woman who looked after the villa . |
| 2 | ‘ Could you ask Francisco to find the woman who looked after the shop for me last time I was ill ? ’ |
| 3 | People just said that Elsie was the woman who fell into the river and drowned . |
| 4 | ‘ Lifelines ’ , which profiles a British woman who corresponded with a man on ‘ Death Row ’ in the USA , won both the Jury Prize and the Participants Prize from 53 other programmes presented by 17 countries . |
| 5 | A woman who died in a fire on Tuesday was named yesterday as Mary Morrison Macleod , 32 , of Bridge Cottages , Newmarket , on the outskirts of Stornoway . |
| 6 | Another caring woman who died in the disaster was doctor 's daughter Deborah Leon , from South Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 7 | With the adulterous woman who came to the village well to draw water , he spoke first of the water and then of the men in her life . |
| 8 | Well , she said she was your wife , the woman who came to the squat , and that since the payments for the children had stopped she was — ; |
| 9 | The man lived on his own , except for a half-Indian woman who came in every morning . |
| 10 | If Lady Isabella was not the woman who went to the apothecary 's shop , then who was ? |
| 11 | Another admirer , a woman who went into the mission field , recalled that ‘ the silence of a great congregation , held by the power of an eloquence which we felt rather than understood , endued him with an ‘ other-worldliness ’ which could not be explained ’ . |
| 12 | The spark of poetry was kindled in him by an elderly woman who lived with the family and was full of tales of witches and warlocks . |
| 13 | There was an Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe , taken from Nursery Rhymes by Tracey Boyd . |
| 14 | For The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe , buy or make a long cake such as a swiss roll and cut about four inches off the end . |
| 15 | There was an Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe , taken from Nursery Rhymes by Tracey Boyd . |
| 16 | Fairytale characters mingled with the children in the crowd , giving them toys and bits of fruit : Mary Poppins , Mother Hubbard , the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe . |
| 17 | Can you wonder that Virginia , the Elf Second , used to put her head down , keep her eyes fixed straight in front of her , and pedal as hard as she could past Wardle Wood and the old woman who lived in the cottage in the middle of it . |
| 18 | It was a heavy fall and Rain 's first thought was for the nervous old woman who lived in the flat below . |
| 19 | She looked at the woman , this woman who was her mother , this woman who lived behind a façade , who would n't let her husband into her bed and had caused him to take a mistress . |
| 20 | She was a dark , tinker-looking woman who talked in a wheedling , laughing , low-pitched whine ; her hands were always black with earth from dealing with potatoes . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 23 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 24 | A sense of alarm prompted her to knock again , more loudly , and this time the door was thrust open by an elegant though plainly dressed young woman who winced at the sound of breaking glass , coming from somewhere behind her . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A woman who replied to an advertisment offering life on a desert island has returned home after just three months . |
| 27 | As the soup plates were removed by a white-overalled woman who appeared from the kitchen , the person on Harry 's other side stirred and turned her head towards him . |
| 28 | It was commonly held that the woman who worked outside the home could neither properly look after her child nor attend to her domestic duties . |
| 29 | ‘ But one morning , the old woman who worked in the house began to talk about Arthur . |
| 30 | Carrie 's only problem was the other woman who worked in the dining rooms . |