Example sentences of "the woman who [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People just said that Elsie was the woman who fell into the river and drowned . |
| 2 | Any kind of bed , by now , would have been welcome ; but to his relief the woman who came to the inner closed door was clean , and her house had no odour of bugs . |
| 3 | Well , she said she was your wife , the woman who came to the squat , and that since the payments for the children had stopped she was — ; |
| 4 | If Lady Isabella was not the woman who went to the apothecary 's shop , then who was ? |
| 5 | She knows the woman who cleans for the Sheldrake practice , and the other day , while waiting in the bus shelter , they got talking about Dawn and Robert . |
| 6 | ‘ Could you ask Francisco to find the woman who looked after the shop for me last time I was ill ? ’ |
| 7 | So Sinead O'Connor — probably our last remaining real rock star , a maverick , a 1000 per cent attack merchant constantly taking convention by the neck and shaking it the way a terrier shakes a rat , the woman who stormed into the Irish PM 's office over the abortion issue , who refused to sing the US national anthem , who correctly pointed out that George Bush leaves Saddam Hussein standing in the mass-murder stakes , who has exposed her own sad past in vivid , gory detail , whose every record has fully stretched and excited the expectations of her audience — has released a version of Loretta Lynn 's maudlin Country classic . |
| 8 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 9 | She saw in her mind the woman who sat in the same seat day after day . |
| 10 | The woman who wept over the feet of Jesus in Luke chapter 7 and then proceeded to wipe his feet with her hair and anoint them with ointment , had her sins forgiven . |
| 11 | " The rows started because of money and him going out all the time , " said the woman who arrived in the refuge on the same day as me . |
| 12 | It was commonly held that the woman who worked outside the home could neither properly look after her child nor attend to her domestic duties . |
| 13 | Mrs Pember Reeves , a member of the FWG , asserted that ‘ the woman who shrinks from the feeling that her wifehood is a means of livelihood will proudly acknowledge that her motherhood is a service to the state ’ . |
| 14 | David Hopper , General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers North-East area , said the store would completely destroy the environment and views for the women who stay at the union 's Sam Watson Rest Home , which overlooks the site . |
| 15 | The women who served behind the counter in their green overalls and caps were non-committal about the quality . |
| 16 | He was even smaller in height than some of the women who came to the house . |
| 17 | However , the panel ruled that the protestors have a right to speak to and harass the women who come to the clinics to obtain abortions . |
| 18 | Several of the women who spoke in the debate represented trade unions . |
| 19 | The women who worked in the butchers ' section distinguished themselves the most during that very special battle . |
| 20 | Many of the women who remained in the trade until their senior years eventually became readers , with higher pay and status than they had ever enjoyed before . |
| 21 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 22 | ‘ Or what about the women who work in the offices where these calendars are stuck up ? ’ |
| 23 | erm er portraits of , er men you have to take i it that erm we could argue Charlotte Bronte was very critical of the men she knew and , the men she thought she might know , and did n't erm , you have to look at the women who feed into the making of them |