Example sentences of "women [vb past] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was directed to a leather armchair by the empty fireplace while the two women seated themselves on dining chairs at the table . |
| 2 | In its first six months , the Newham Independent Counselling Service project has taken seven referrals from the SSD , two women referred themselves , and one came via her family . |
| 3 | Married women found themselves either excluded entirely from , or treated very poorly by , a whole range of measures designed to work through the labour market . |
| 4 | As the fighting began , women found themselves in a dilemma . |
| 5 | An explanation for this negative attitude towards the union lies in the way the women identified themselves in terms of their domestic lives rather than as paid workers . |
| 6 | Two women shook themselves out . |
| 7 | Women showed themselves to be remarkably adaptable to the heavy engineering work involved and many of them displayed such interest and versatility that they were able to undertake really high class work such as turning , milling , and drilling of precision components , high grade fitting work , electric and oxy-acetylene welding , crane driving , and operation of power hammers . |
| 8 | Was it a weakness intelligent women allowed themselves ? |
| 9 | Both women allowed themselves to be involved with another man in the absence of their husbands but in very different ways . |
| 10 | More than three times as many men as women killed themselves during that time , the Minister for Health , Brendan Howlin , disclosed . |
| 11 | Austen describes women in their time honoured role of debutante , wife and mother during the last period that such a role was unquestioned , before the Industrial and French Revolutions had changed the material world and the way European men and women saw themselves . |
| 12 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 13 | In the field , women proved themselves capable ambulance drivers , and many drove trucks bringing up supplies to the troops . |
| 14 | These women did themselves well , at least their husbands did them well . |
| 15 | Here the old men and women deposited themselves about the room . |
| 16 | In other words , some women defined themselves out of the labour market because they felt that they were unlikely to get paid work or because they believed that they had no right to paid work . |
| 17 | English middle class men and women defined themselves not only in terms of their difference from and antagonism to other social classes , but also in terms of their difference from other races and peoples , especially the Irish , the Jews and the blacks . |