Example sentences of "and a woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interior is fascinating , with twin vaulted naves and a women 's gallery . |
| 2 | And a women who described herself as a social worker . |
| 3 | Two of them burst into the Pathfinder and bundled the three men and a women into the back . |
| 4 | Have you talked only about the bride cooking for the bridegroom when you know she is a career girl and a women 's libber , and if she is not some of the audience will be ? |
| 5 | And it takes a man and a women to produce a child . |
| 6 | Two men and a women have denied charges of attempted murder . |
| 7 | The 16-year-old was pulled off the 50cc Yamaha , pushed to the ground and kicked before two men and a women escaped on her bike . |
| 8 | And I think that there is a very strong argument erm for getting women in the cabinet on the basis that if women are seen to be in the cabinet they are seen as competent , they 're seen as excellent politicians , and that 's why I go for a form of positive discrimination , which is that if you 've got two people who are equally well qualified , and if erm Mr Major decided that a man and a women were equally well qualified , then I think he should have chosen the woman erm |
| 9 | The attraction between a man and a woman can be one of the most powerful emotions known . |
| 10 | Someone had fainted and a woman was loosening his shirt and running water over his head . |
| 11 | Some shouted , ‘ No , no , ’ and a woman called out , ‘ Come on then , Angus — let us go and have our dinners at Bolfracks ! ’ |
| 12 | The point of the quill broke through the paper where it lay over an incised letter and a woman in the group pushed the man with the pen and crowed out , ‘ Donal , you great fool — the King will never read that now ! ’ |
| 13 | The next time they took me to the room , a man and a woman were waiting . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Two teenage girls and a woman were hurt . |
| 16 | A MAN and a woman died yesterday in a suspected gas explosion that destroyed a six-storey tenement block in the centre of Edinburgh , writes Mark Douglas Home . |
| 17 | Police in Edinburgh were satisfied no more bodies are buried in the ruins of the six-storey tenement building destroyed in an explosion on Wednesday morning which killed a man and a woman . |
| 18 | The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week . |
| 19 | Drawings of three suspects , two men and a woman , are posted in the church . |
| 20 | According to our blonde stewardess , herself an object of fantasy , all life was a mindless rush , gabbled nonsense , sweaty commuting between the only moments that made sense , the embrace of a man and a woman . |
| 21 | Where a man can become more male and a woman more female by coming together in the full rigors of the fuck … homosexuals , it can be suggested , tend to pass their qualities over to one another , for there is no womb to mirror and return what is most forceful or attractive in each of them . |
| 22 | The pairing family was an uninstitutionalized de facto long-term association of a man and a woman . |
| 23 | The marriage of a son was a way of adding to a family 's wealth , and a woman 's role was to display this wealth through her clothes , manner and life style . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For example , the 1971 Act prevents single mothers from bringing their children into Britain unless they can prove sole responsibility ; and a woman can never be regarded a ‘ head of a household ’ unless her husband is mentally or physically handicapped . |
| 26 | Love was between a man and a woman , love was for marriage , and each would have died before admitting to anything more than they ‘ got on well ’ together . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 29 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 30 | She was eight years Lewis 's senior , and a woman of high intellectual abilities . |