Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] women [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 2 | The 1927 Conference heard a moving appeal on the issue from a miner 's wife who referred to the women 's support for male trade unionists during the 1926 General Strike : ‘ Surely you will not turn the women down on this question because it was the women who stood four-square with you in your dispute ? ’ |
| 3 | She played in the women 's basketball and used to ride her bike around the university . |
| 4 | Not only was there overwhelming support on the picket line ( from trade unionists and from many feminists who identified with the women 's movement rather than any particular trade union ) but on 15 June local postal workers at Cricklewood started a boycott of Grunwick mail . |
| 5 | Jennifer Capriati , who stormed onto the women 's pro tour at the age of 14 last year , is a product of both the Macci and Saddlebrook academies . |
| 6 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
| 7 | And certainly by what she did with the women 's support group I think she was . |
| 8 | During the First World War she volunteered for the Women 's Reserve Ambulance and twice won the Croix de Charité for gallantry for heroic rescues in Salonica . |
| 9 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | The hareems , including ours , started to arrive about 9.30 and we drifted into the women 's majlis dressed in our best . |
| 11 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |