Example sentences of "the [noun] a woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | in for it , drinking at and last year the coincidence was and there was a horse in the race called the year the , the wi the winner a woman |
| 2 | UMI RIN TOSIT The sensations a woman experiences when she does not know how she feels about a man |
| 3 | Such an involvement , with its need for a clear and sensible understanding , may begin when screening tests reveal that the child a woman is carrying may be handicapped . |
| 4 | In truth Patrick Harper had not really noticed Lucille 's dress , but , being a married man , he knew the importance a woman attached to a compliment . |
| 5 | We will — once you 've bid me a proper good morning , the sort a woman gives a man after she 's spent the night in his arms . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Is n't that just the place a woman would keep her love letters , and Garry is the type of man who would write sweet nothings , is n't he ? ’ |
| 7 | Last Fri last Wednesday and she got the trolley like and when she pulled the trolley a woman 's handbag was on the trolley and on the you know what was it ? |
| 8 | These are the questions a woman should ask herself before she marries : |
| 9 | Down in the Mootwalk a woman laughed and from the water a swan gave its harsh , grating cry . |
| 10 | In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand . |
| 11 | " We had plenty of laughs " was an expression used by two former compositors , one a man , the other a woman . |
| 12 | I had all the cosmetics a woman could want . |
| 13 | Adler found that despite the legislation a woman 's sexual history was routinely introduced during a rape trial . |
| 14 | Beyond the gates a woman began to ululate . |
| 15 | ‘ As well , of course , we now know that there 's a very direct link between the amount a woman smokes and her chance of miscarrying . |
| 16 | During my interview with the doctor a woman kept coming in and asking him where the party was . |
| 17 | There was no room in either of the two books for more than a suggestion of the way a woman might be changed by a complicated political and personal dilemma . |
| 18 | These not only cause a change in self-concept — the way a woman sees herself — but , more important , a change in the way she is perceived by other people . |
| 19 | It occurred to her that the way she was holding Peach was the way a woman holds a baby and she lowered him gently into her lap . |
| 20 | There are times when the way a woman uses her tears in a relationship is a barrier to her growth . |
| 21 | This fiddling can go straight to the heart of the way a woman feels about herself . |
| 22 | In the Sahel a woman must have ten children to be 95% certain of a surviving adult son . |
| 23 | Somewhere in the hotel a woman wailed and broke china . |
| 24 | At the menopause a woman reaches the end of her childbearing years . |
| 25 | But it would be a mistake for women to consider themselves reasonably ‘ safe ’ , because after the menopause a woman loses the protective effect of her hormones and her chances of suffering from heart disease are almost equal to a man 's . |
| 26 | On the screen a woman nonchalantly opens the lid of a washing machine and out leaps one of the Things . |
| 27 | On the screen a woman with bright blonde hair and red-rimmed glasses was teaching her audience how to make profiteroles . |
| 28 | Further along the street a woman was scrubbing her doorstep . |
| 29 | Much more difficult for a woman because by the time a woman 's got into her forties , her child rearing erm career is usually rather short and even if she wants to continue , it becomes much more hazardous for her and for her offspring , so er in , in the case of erm modern societies with erm monogamy bu but divorce as we have , you ca n't help thinking that to some extent the , the odds are , are loaded in the favour of men as it were in terms of their reproductive success . |
| 30 | ‘ And some time after you went round to the front of the house a woman was seen to go in . ’ |