Example sentences of "a woman who [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 No , it would be night , with a full moon casting an ivory pathway over the beach , a pathway leading Nicolo to a woman who stepped from the shadows and held out her arms .
2 The family of a woman who died from the human version of Mad Cow Disease are claiming she was a victim of contaminated hormone fertililty treatment .
3 Millions of viewers saw the vicious and disbelieving interrogation of a woman who went to the police saying she had been raped .
4 Another admirer , a woman who went into the mission field , recalled that ‘ the silence of a great congregation , held by the power of an eloquence which we felt rather than understood , endued him with an ‘ other-worldliness ’ which could not be explained ’ .
5 When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy .
6 Nor does Anna Massey express any sensuality that could explain why even a bald , bulky vagrant would want to ravish a woman who looks like the world 's oldest pixie .
7 As one of these was the lord of the manor and another the vicar , only one in fifteen of the ‘ ordinary ’ folk was returned as a freeholder : two husbandmen and a woman who looks like the widow of a yeoman or maybe a minor gentleman .
8 A spooky tale about a woman who returns to the stately which has been home to the Stafford Dynasty for hundreds of years .
9 A WOMAN who marries at the age of 42 has a better chance of success than when she was 23 .
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