Example sentences of "[noun sg] and a woman " in BNC.
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1 | In Bath last Wednesday , one hit him on the back of the neck and a woman was arrested . |
2 | ‘ The whole caravan of masses of wool and mud disappear into that cave — the shepherd and a woman with a lantern shut the doors behind them . ’ |
3 | The men in the gateway moved to one side and a woman came forward . |
4 | A 12-YEAR-OLD girl was killed with an axe and a woman speared to death in an attack on a Cambodian village in which eight Vietnamese were killed , United Nations investigators said yesterday . |
5 | Lee gave him a shove , there was some pushing and tripping up , Kevin fell over into Dean 's lap and a woman at the other end of the car shouted that if they did n't behave themselves she 'd find someone at Goldhawk Road who would make them . |
6 | Films like Lady Audley 's Secret ( 1920 ) , the story of a bigamous marriage and a woman 's cold-blooded murder of her devoted husband , were sensational without being plotted or shoot with an eye to involving an audience . |
7 | ‘ On one occasion , I rang his home and a woman I assumed to be his wife answered . |
8 | For example , in two cases the attackers pretended to be taxi-drivers , but it was stated that ‘ police do not believe the assaults [ on a 17-year-old girl and a woman aged 25 ] were linked ’ ( Daily Mail ) . |
9 | The lorry driver and a woman pedestrian were treated for shock , and heat-seeking cameras searched the rubble for other casualties , but Cornwall fire brigade said later everyone was accounted for . |
10 | A MINICAB driver and a woman were arrested yesterday by police probing a rape and kidnap . |
11 | The rampaging hooligans ran the length of the train , frightening passengers , smashing light bulbs and windows and ripping up seats , then attacked the driver and a woman guard . |
12 | The gang had been intimidating passengers and had attacked the driver and a woman guard . |
13 | In the bedroom cupboard , scented with lavender , a man 's shirt and a woman 's white skirt swung among the empty coat-hangers . |
14 | He found a man keeping geese in his kitchen and a woman with a typewriter in a turret . ’ |
15 | A caterpillar was thrust beneath her nose and a woman interviewer began the interrogation . |
16 | Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs . |
17 | The three crew and a woman passenger were killed . |
18 | But a marriage could be smooth and peaceful , and many were , as long as the man carried out his duties towards his wife and a woman was submissive to her husband . |
19 | I imagine the door opening and a woman with a ginger fuzz of hair , painfully familiar , painfully changed , standing on the threshold , frowning in puzzlement . |
20 | Her secretary said some crank had tried to get an appointment and a woman came to the clinic pretending she knew the secretary . |
21 | as well if you want The Express and The Mail have much the same pictures Got a football magazine and a Woman you can have a football , I ca n't u look |
22 | The remains of lunch were still on the stained crumb-scattered tablecloth and a woman sat at the table feeding a baby from a bottle . |
23 | Opening the door a crack she saw a man in a clerical collar and a woman beside him . |
24 | Perhaps only Barrie could have made a successful match between two such unpromising characters — a man who boasts that he has never laughed in his life and a woman who is acutely aware of being devoid of charm . |
25 | Gómez was an active member of the teacher 's union and a woman 's organisation . |
26 | We came on to the dirt road and a woman in a fluttering robe of pale pink organza walked towards us . |
27 | ‘ Just as there must be a token Jew and a woman . |
28 | The attraction between a man and a woman can be one of the most powerful emotions known . |
29 | The next time they took me to the room , a man and a woman were waiting . |
30 | As the child that comes or may come from a sexual encounter between a man and a woman differs from the child born from that man and some other woman ( or from the same man and the same woman on another occasion ) , so every genuine poem is the unique product of one unrepeatable encounter between the artist and an unearthly partner who may be called ‘ Muse ’ or ‘ goddess ’ . |