Example sentences of "woman who [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) . |
| 2 | She had never known any woman who had survived to the age of thirty unmarried without developing a severe case of flower-patterned blouses and low-heeled blue-grey shoes . |
| 3 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 4 | " You learnt a lot " , according to one woman who had worked on the Encyclopaedia Britannica , which was her most vivid memory , as well it might be . |
| 5 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 6 | for example , BBC Television on the evening of the 11 July Day of Action , and the papers next morning , were full of pictures of injured policemen , but the pickets who were injured were hardly mentioned , although among them was a man who had had an epileptic fit , a woman who had collapsed at the rear entrance to the factory and two Yorkshire miners who had to be carried away by their friends . |
| 7 | There was a heavy irony in Lady Thatcher 's fulsome tribute to the women who had campaigned for the vote . |
| 8 | The building , which was owned by the church , was made up of a dozen self-contained flats rented out to respectable young women who had gone through the children 's home and school of St Mary 's Convent in Bermondsey . |
| 9 | It was only towards the end of last year , when the book was going to press and space was tight , that I realised how important a contribution was made not only by my work , but also the work of all the women who had contributed to the Project both nationally and internationally . |
| 10 | Inevitably this role as mascot-muse-mannequin posed problems for the ‘ free and adored ’ women who wanted to participate in the movement , not as ornaments , but as artists . |
| 11 | Women who tried to get into the car park without a pass this morning were allowed through the barrier , but council officials warned them that they could face disciplinary proceedings if they try again tomorrow . |
| 12 | Apart from the very young , who were not interested in having siestas , the only human beings to be seen were a few women who preferred to sit in the shade of their houses . |