Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a woman 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 2 | Rosie Leventon 's Copper Floor involves 320 textured copper briquettes which could be seen as a woman 's reappropriation of Carl Andre 's Bricks . |
| 3 | Her last film ‘ RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN ’ ( 1964 ) whose commercial and critical failure ended her career , can be seen as a woman 's reply to the eulogies of the working class male celebrated by John Osbourne and his like , and it does so by poking fun at the ideology of the male and his crude sexism . |
| 4 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court was told that Mantack took with him a tape he had made of a woman 's voice crying for help . |
| 5 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 6 | I have to say , myself , you know I feel one of the worst thing you can call a man in the English language is a term that 's used for a women 's genitalia . |
| 7 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |
| 8 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 9 | The Old Bailey heard he then cut her up before taking parts of her body on the Underground system to be dumped outside a women 's refuge . |
| 10 | The Old Bailey heard he then cut her up before taking parts of her body on the Underground system to be dumped outside a women 's refuge . |
| 11 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 12 | I waited in the corridor for our blanket and any message for Sister Casualty , and brooded on the baby 's chances of survival , how any mother could have made herself pack her own baby in a carrier-bag , and what kind of thoughts passed through a woman 's mind when she walked away after abandoning her baby in a telephone-box , or anywhere else . |
| 13 | It would have outlawed abortions in all cases except where pregnancy threatened a woman 's life , no exceptions being made for pregnancy resulting from rape or incest , and no account being taken of a woman 's ill-health or poverty . |
| 14 | Six small rod-like capsules are inserted into a woman 's arm under local anaesthetic . |
| 15 | It can be inserted into a woman 's womb quite easily by a doctor , in order to prevent pregnancy . |
| 16 | She 'd come across the twins propped up against the garage doors , applauding and screaming with delight at a patter delivered in a woman 's voice . |
| 17 | There is an increase in risk due to irradiation of the breast , but this is likely to be small and is best estimated from a woman 's age and dose of irradiation . |
| 18 | They suggest it can be used on IVF embryos , or embryos flushed from a woman 's womb before implantation takes place , in order to screen for sex-linked genetic conditions , for instance haemophilia , which mostly affects males . |
| 19 | Yet when men were asked to smell swabs taken from a woman 's vagina at different times during the menstrual cycle , they found the smells least attractive at the time of ovulation . |
| 20 | She 'd worked on a woman 's magazine . |
| 21 | The pink chintz curtains matched the pink chintz bedspread ; underneath it , prostrate yet fully dressed in a woman 's blouse and man 's dhoti , sprawled the figure of Chaman , the guru of the household . |
| 22 | Shaw produced images described as a woman 's navel , a breast , a thigh , and Jesus , on an 8 mm movie film , This he did by spitting on the lens . |
| 23 | Maria Elena Aparicio was sentenced to seven years and is believed to be held in a women 's prison in Havana . |
| 24 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |