Example sentences of "woman [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tavett crouched over his desk until he felt the swish of air as the woman passed by , purple and pink cotton skirts flapping . |
| 2 | During a pause between Mice , I noticed a poorly-dressed woman pick up a twenty-pound note in surprise . |
| 3 | In this new position he could see a picture of a woman hanging on the wall opposite . |
| 4 | ‘ . When a man says he will follow him ‘ but let me first say farewell to those at my home ’ , Jesus reprimands him , and when a woman cries out ‘ Blessed is the womb that bore you , and the breasts that you sucked ’ , he replies ‘ Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God ’ . |
| 5 | Although weak , the woman fought back . |
| 6 | They were isolated from the crowd , their arms linked , the woman gazing up in to his face . |
| 7 | These guys are nudging each other , they go up to her , the music changes , and they 're talking to her , and she says no or whatever , and then the last guy walks up to her , the woman turns round , and she 's been replaced by someone wearing the same dress but she 's really fat . |
| 8 | Interviewers can not be sure of people 's age or social class before an interview is begun and so one can see the temptation of putting a woman down as under 35 if that is just what you need at the end of a hard day when the woman turns out in fact to be 38 . |
| 9 | AN ageing French woman ekes out a privileged life pulling off jewel heists with a decrepit sidekick . |
| 10 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 11 | At least if a woman goes out to work she can escape that — her mind is occupied , she does not long so much for her home in Pakistan . |
| 12 | the girls of my school have to take the place entirely of the mother of the family ; the families are generally large ; the woman goes out in the morning , she works in a pickle house , if she is a better class woman she goes out charring , or she goes out step cleaning during the day and the little girl takes the place of the mother of the family . |
| 13 | A YOUNG woman plunged off a pier into the sea after a furious row with her boyfriend . |
| 14 | She stood to one side as the woman got up and , casting the strait-jacket aside , went across to the cot , bending down over it to lift and cradle the child . |
| 15 | A woman got up a few rows back , and threw the hood off her head . |
| 16 | When the leading lady 's on stage , you do n't notice the rest of the cast , Sabine thought wryly , the wording of madame 's introduction not lost on her , as a young woman got up from a sofa in another part of the room , and came forward with open reluctance . |
| 17 | The car stopped near the house , and a woman got out . |
| 18 | Opposite him a woman leaned out of the window of her own apartment and shouted at him . |
| 19 | Lying on a pallet in the downstairs chamber , the deceased woman laid out upstairs , the only sounds came from the cat cleaning itself by the hearth and an owl hooting raucously outside . |
| 20 | Sometimes a woman knotted up with arthritis like a ship 's rope would throw up her gnarled hands and swear that her pain was gone . |
| 21 | It was time for the Other Woman to go back to America . |
| 22 | Hutt struck her from behind with some force , expecting the young woman to go down . |
| 23 | Oh yes , now , I get even get the woman to come up and |
| 24 | Can not you pay a woman to come in ? ’ |
| 25 | The old woman peered around and smiled . |
| 26 | The door opened very slightly , and a woman peered out . |
| 27 | But her father the king was angry and sad at the loss of his daughter ; he asked a wise woman to find out what had become of the princess . |
| 28 | Needing no alibis , however , though it comes close to an exploitation concept , is the hard-driving Australian movie Shame ( Vestron ) , with a dynamic central performance by Deborra-Lee Furness as the city woman caught up in Outback violence . |
| 29 | A North-East woman caught up in the blast criticised British Rail for not acting quickly enough . |
| 30 | There 's this man and woman walking by with lots of shopping bags and a little boy hanging on to his Dad 's belt . |