Example sentences of "woman who [verb] [prep] the [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 | Another caring woman who died in the disaster was doctor 's daughter Deborah Leon , from South Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 — ; |
| 7 | If Lady Isabella was not the woman who went to the apothecary 's shop , then who was ? |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was a heavy fall and Rain 's first thought was for the nervous old woman who lived in the flat below . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ But one morning , the old woman who worked in the house began to talk about Arthur . |
| 19 | Carrie 's only problem was the other woman who worked in the dining rooms . |
| 20 | As one of these was the lord of the manor and another the vicar , only one in fifteen of the ‘ ordinary ’ folk was returned as a freeholder : two husbandmen and a woman who looks like the widow of a yeoman or maybe a minor gentleman . |
| 21 | Nor does Anna Massey express any sensuality that could explain why even a bald , bulky vagrant would want to ravish a woman who looks like the world 's oldest pixie . |
| 22 | A WOMAN who marries at the age of 42 has a better chance of success than when she was 23 . |
| 23 | Sophie was a small frail woman who moved about the lounge as silently as a cat , greeting everyone in whispered French . |
| 24 | " The rows started because of money and him going out all the time , " said the woman who arrived in the refuge on the same day as me . |