Example sentences of "[adj] woman ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet the story which the people of Dodona will tell about the black dove from Egypt becoming their oracle would surely arise because the foreign woman 's language would sound to them like the twittering of birds . |
| 2 | His fingering was dreadful and his chords were wild approximations , but he pressed on , bashing out his horn pipe in direct competition with the French woman 's lament . |
| 3 | Compare and contrast with last week 's statement by Auberon Waugh : ‘ The greatest sin-gle cause of unhappiness in Britain today is the modern British woman 's hatred of housework . ’ |
| 4 | She rattled the bone to draw the old woman 's spirit from the wood . |
| 5 | But when she got closer , she could see that the old woman 's colour was feverish and the hands held out in welcome were trembling . |
| 6 | In a small town in Surrey an old woman 's plea for help leads to an unsettling encounter |
| 7 | Her voice , when it came , sounded like an old woman 's voice , cracked and tremulous , and the words strained her throat . |
| 8 | The old woman 's voice had changed and become as familiar to me as my own . |
| 9 | The intensity deepened in the old woman 's voice . |
| 10 | On this she turned about and walked slowly from the room with the old woman 's voice crying after her , ‘ You 'll see . |
| 11 | The old woman 's voice trailed off . |
| 12 | From above an old woman 's voice called . |
| 13 | Sat 25 11.00am NFT1 Waller 's Last Walk Christian Wagner 's elegiac treatment of an eldery railway inspector 's life ; 10.45am NFT2 In Fading Light Gripping docu-drama on the dying North Shields fishing industry ; 11.00am Curzon West End Romuald and Juliette Coline Serreau 's comedy about an affair between an exec and his black cleaner ; 11.00am Screen on Green Island Paul Cox 's elegant three-hander ; 2.15 NFT1 Guardian/AIP Seminar ; 1.15 NFT2 Martha Jellneck Kai Wessell 's story of an old woman 's relationship with her meals-on-wheels deliverer ; 3.15 NFT2 I Am Living Portrait of contemporary Indian women ; 4.30 NFT1 The Thief of Bagdad Restored version of Korda 's sumptuous Arabian Knights fantasy ; 5.45 NFT2 I Went to The Dance Documentary by Les Blank on the Cajun music of Louisiana ; 7.30 LFMC Programme 7 : Interior Monologues ; 9.00 NFT1 The Kill-Off Maggie Greenwald 's look at a sleazy East Coast seaside resort ; 8.30 NFT2 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Beeban Kidron 's interpretation of Jeanette Winterson 's autobiographical first novel , with Geraldine McEwan ; 8.45 MOMI Smoking Mirror Funereal British comedy , with Beatie Edney ; 11.15 Rio Chicken and Duck Talk See above . |
| 14 | There 's tons of old woman 's junk up there . ’ |
| 15 | Jazzbeaux grabbed the old woman 's hair , and it came away in her hand . |
| 16 | Observed in uncompromising midsummer light , Clytemnestra looked like something that , having lain neglected at the bottom of an old woman 's knitting basket , has finally been brought out to be mended . |
| 17 | Dan felt an urge to take back his fist and slam it into the old woman 's teeth . |
| 18 | In her nacreous haze , Chesarynth was trying to puzzle out who the speakers were and what the boy Karel whoever he was — had done to raise such spikes of hatred in the old woman 's tone . |
| 19 | Looking Glass 's voice , though , dominated the council , and it was agreed that he should lead the Nez Perce on the Lolo trail over the Bitterroots , to join the Crows in Montana , and perhaps on to the ‘ Old Woman 's Country ’ , Canada , where Sitting Bull had sought sanctuary after the Custer massacre . |
| 20 | Ariel was bitter ; in turns Sycorax 's power stifled her , then the old woman 's weakness dragged at her like a disease afflicting her as well . |
| 21 | We all see with one pair of eyes , Raskolnikov 's , when the visual field narrows upon the back of an old woman 's head , her hair ‘ thick with grease , twisted into a rat's-tail plait and gathered up under what was left of a broken horn comb which stuck out at the nape of her neck ’ . |
| 22 | The old woman 's fingers curved into talons and she scratched at Jazzbeaux 's face . |
| 23 | like an old woman 's fingers — |
| 24 | Whereas Meh'Lindi … she 's the one who will presently cause this old woman 's heart to stop . |
| 25 | What is an old woman 's heart when compared to the joys of dancing half naked down a catwalk while the world watches ? ’ |
| 26 | But she could n't just walk out of the old woman 's life , not without preparing her first . |
| 27 | He gave Caroline a cool look , as if the old woman 's admission were somehow her fault . |
| 28 | In true light the old woman 's skin was brown and her hair indeed was white as cotton , while her eyes were the boiled white of eggs . |
| 29 | Sometimes , the old woman 's rage ebbed , and she was again the spirited and loving force Ariel had known when she was a child . |
| 30 | A jug of lemonade and two glasses stood by the old woman 's arm . |