Example sentences of "[been] [verb] by a [adj] woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | Myeloski had been joined by a young woman in her early twenties . |
| 2 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 3 | As usual he had been accompanied by a beautiful woman . |
| 4 | ‘ To man I can be answerable , and as for God , I 'll take him in my own hands ’ , said the brazen Clavers , and with that he turned his horse and led his men away , knowing that he had been deflated by a poor woman of noble demeanour . |
| 5 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |