Example sentences of "the woman had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had short very black hair , stylishly cut away from the curve of her jaw ; her head was upright , and her firm chin rested on one hand . |
| 2 | The woman had gone inside . |
| 3 | Mr Carey told the jury it would have to decide whether the woman had made a ‘ wicked and false allegation ’ against a serving police officer or whether the officer had gone to the ‘ very depths of the pit of deceit ’ by claiming the woman , less than half his age , had encouraged and enjoyed sexual intercourse with him . |
| 4 | The court heard the woman had approached PC Anderson as he sat in his car . |
| 5 | Mr Anderson also admitted checking to see if the woman had a police record . |
| 6 | The jurors only had to consider whether the woman had consented or not to the intercourse taking place . |
| 7 | Earlier , Jean Southworth QC , for Mr Anderson , suggested that the woman had been ‘ hoisted by her own petard ’ . |
| 8 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 9 | Given this stark choice , the jury decided that the policeman had been deceitful rather than that the woman had been ‘ wicked and false ’ in her evidence . |
| 10 | Anderson , who had pleaded not guilty and claimed the woman had handed him ‘ sex on a plate ’ , was convicted by a 10-2 majority of raping the woman on 4 April , last year . |
| 11 | The woman had lashed out in fear and given the bird a fatal blow , feathers everywhere . |
| 12 | Besides , the woman had recognised the silver pencil in his left breast pocket , his wristwatch and the tiny knife scar , relic of some schoolboy ritual , on that wrist . |
| 13 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 14 | But the woman had n't said it was urgent , that his Mum should go to the hospital right away or anything . |
| 15 | Doyle and the Woman had left him in silence , watching him but not talking . |
| 16 | Doyle seemed wary and the Woman had started to fidget with her long tail of hair , holding it in one hand and drawing it through the fingers of the other . |
| 17 | The Woman had let go of Tug 's shoulders as soon as the door opened . |
| 18 | The woman had also been the nearest she could get to contrite about what had happened in her apartment . |
| 19 | The woman had allowed him to make love , but afterwards had started crying and screaming . |
| 20 | Mr Neill Stewart , prosecuting , said the woman had become pregnant at 13 and at last told her mother her stepfather was responsible . |
| 21 | She said the woman had lived in the house for about nine years and the man for about two . |
| 22 | The woman had a figure like the young Jane Russell . |
| 23 | In this , as in other matters , the private desires of the woman had always to yield to the duties imposed on the sovereign . |
| 24 | And it was the woman had cast him off ; she knew him well enough already to realise how much that had hurt his pride . |
| 25 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 26 | In the morning , the woman had almost finished her breakfast when he entered the dining room . |
| 27 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 28 | By the time they had sorted out the confusion and given chase , the woman had made good her escape . |
| 29 | By this time , the woman had left her car and the officer followed her into the house . |
| 30 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |