Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty two year old decorated U D R veteran , Albert Cooper , was set up by a woman who left a booby-trapped car at this garage for repairs . |
| 2 | A woman who became a man 20 years ago says there may be up to 60 transsexuals living in County Durham . |
| 3 | His wife , Pamela , whom fortunately he had left behind , was an acid-tongued woman who managed a fleet of launderettes . |
| 4 | The fastest man received a bottle of champagne compared to the fastest woman who got a bottle of wine for her efforts . |
| 5 | As an example of the difficulties this can cause , I was working with a 33-year-old woman who had a rapidly progressing terminal condition . |
| 6 | The woman who had a haemorrhage for twelve years , and probably suffered from haemophilia , touched the cloak of Jesus believing that this was all she had to do to be healed . |
| 7 | While they were eating , a woman who had a bad name crept into the room and knelt at the feet of Jesus . |
| 8 | ( I excluded the one woman who had a full-time job from this tabulation since this was the one respect in which her housework situation was not directly comparable with that of the other women . ) |
| 9 | Joseph Robinson had blessed his luck to marry a woman who had a certain expectation of such a fine spot and his vigorous commerce had turned a pothouse into a stopover for some of the best in the county , in the land even . |
| 10 | As one woman who had a disabled unemployed husband commented : |
| 11 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 12 | I once had a thank you for rescuing a woman who had a baby in Woodstock . |
| 13 | He was married before-for a long time — to a woman who had an incurable disease . |
| 14 | A WIFE accused of punching a woman who had an affair with her husband has been cleared of assault . |
| 15 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |
| 16 | I settled for a quality pie inside the ground — they were temperature-controlled by a woman who stuck a fancy knitting needle in them all . |
| 17 | A woman who staged an IRA bomb hoax at an army barracks after being jilted by a soldier has been jailed for four and a half months . |
| 18 | And a woman who offered a reward was Sliwa 's actress sister . |
| 19 | One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine . |
| 20 | When I first arrived , at the age of twelve , I was advised to try a family in Borgo delle Colonne , a long cobbled street with an arcade along one side , very typical of Parma , where a woman who ran a small dairy business undertook to look after me . |
| 21 | She began to exchange odd words with the others , the Afghan 's owner , tall and bearded in home-knitted sweaters full of mistakes , the woman who ran a boutique a street away and her argumentative pekinese , and an Alsatian with a middle-aged man in dark suits and expensive shoes who looked like an advertisement for men 's tailoring , the kind who would be bound to have the right clothes for any occasion . |
| 22 | Does he really believe that the woman who spent an hour asking questions would have passively accepted everything a female consultant told her with no queries ? |
| 23 | A woman who caused a row when she applied for a teaching job under a false identity has now joined the debate over children 's reading . |
| 24 | Some have special requirements , like a playgroup looking for a church hall , or the woman who wanted a redundant church in Wales for a design company . |
| 25 | A woman who wanted a divorce because her husband made love to her not very often and not very well did n't get it . |
| 26 | The related thorny question of abortion was another topic , and Mr. Jenks was cheered when , referring to his work in hospitals , he said : ‘ I have never seen a woman who wanted an abortion , but plenty who felt they had no alternative ’ , citing education to stop unwanted pregnancies as the real solution . |
| 27 | Morale was shown by a woman who dialled a number in Buenos Aires at random and sang two choruses of Rule Britannia to whoever it was on the end of the line . |
| 28 | Twenty years ago , a woman who reported a rape could expect to have her name splashed across the papers , her misery often compounded by the insinuation that she 'd ‘ asked for it ’ . |
| 29 | So we set out to find the truth behind the mystery — and discovered a woman who forged a dazzling career with precision and determination . |
| 30 | Corbett was completely mystified by his servant 's energy and zest for life and passionate attachment to any woman who arched an eyebrow at him . |