Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The handle is modelled in the round with a man engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman who is positioned on the shoulders of a kneeling figure . |
| 2 | In the film , Helena is a woman who is rescued from a car accident by a doctor who then amputates her injured legs and unhurt arms and keeps her as a hostage in a box , hoping she will fall in love with him . |
| 3 | " People seeing Jeannie would say that 's a woman who 's sunk to the lowest depths , the dregs of humanity . |
| 4 | She is sitting next to her neighbour , a black woman who was born in the tenements and whose brother lived nearby . |
| 5 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 6 | An hour later , the woman who was seen with the child was arrested at Heathrow where she had argued with a cabbie after refusing to pay her fare . |
| 7 | The new allegations against her are being made by a woman who was convicted on the same charges and is out on bail with her . |
| 8 | A verdict of accidental death 's been recorded on a woman who was crushed beneath a coach when it veered out of control across a busy street . |
| 9 | Last month , Wakefield was ordered to pay £1,000 compensation to an elderly woman who was robbed by a 14-year-old boy in care . |
| 10 | In fact so engrossed with her movements was he that he bumped into a young woman who was struggling with an impossibly heavy suitcase . |
| 11 | A CORONER has issued a warning about the dangers of combustible clothing after the death of a woman who was turned into a human fireball in her own kitchen . |
| 12 | POLICE yesterday named a 22-year-old woman who was killed in an accident on the M876 near Denny on Monday as Paula Young , of Myre Terrace , Kinross . |
| 13 | Ricks ' talk features a brilliant analysis of Dylan 's 1964 song , The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll , which tells the story of a woman who was killed by a rich young man , William ‘ Zanzinger ’ . |
| 14 | She had told Great-gran and now she stood looking down on this eighty-two year old woman who was dressed as a woman of forty might have been , in a pale blue cotton dress , square-necked , which showed surprisingly firm flesh for one her age , short-sleeved , which in this case exposed her real age by the sagging flesh of the underarm . |
| 15 | The second victim was a 30-year-old woman who was hit on the head by a boom . |
| 16 | A similar issue arose in the present case D had undoubtedly used considerable violence against the victim , his girlfriend , but was it ( as she said ) an unprovoked and drunken attack with a stick or ( as he contended ) an attempt to fend off an attack by the woman who was armed with a carving knife ? |
| 17 | Also being treated is a twenty-one year old woman who was travelling in the stolen car , and was apparently carried from the scene of the accident by the car 's driver . |
| 18 | An inquest has opened on a man and woman who were shot in the carpark of a D-I-Y store . |
| 19 | Last night police were still questioning the other three men and one woman who were arrested at the site . |
| 20 | It is not just women who are faced with the dilemma of choosing between jobs , families and social commitments . |
| 21 | The data do not prove that the operation precedes the bowel dysfunction , and it is possible that women who are troubled by the symptoms of constipation are more likely to report gynaecological symptoms to their general practitioners . |
| 22 | Women who are identified as a problem are those whose isolation and poverty and poor housing affects their competence in childcare , domestic skills and coping with unsatisfactory circumstances . |
| 23 | Linguistic posturing of this sort is the extreme reaction of a character in an extreme situation , but it dramatizes rhetorical manoeuvres available to both men and women who are forced into a position of discursive subservience . |
| 24 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 25 | It was women who were defined as the human agents of infection , threatening national health and security and challenging the social order by their active and autonomous sexuality . |
| 26 | Would you like me to check the mail — or attend to the women who were to go for a bush walk ? ’ |
| 27 | For example , adjustment increased the low perinatal mortality rate for women who were delivered at a general practitioner unit and decreased the high rate in hospital 1 , which had an accident and emergency department . |
| 28 | Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’ |
| 29 | The whole affair came to an abrupt conclusion in August , when two members of the House Committee reported that on their way out of a board meeting , they came across a group of about fifteen women who were waiting outside the laundry for their pay , which had been due the previous day . |
| 30 | In addition , the proffered certainties of Calvinism had great appeal for the many men and women who were suffering from the dislocation and anxiety produced by a period of unpredictable economic development and rapid social change . |