Example sentences of "[prep] the women in " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Your father was a hard man for the women in his day , ’ McQuaid said addressing the two girls .
2 She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us .
3 for the women in the study , friendship both given and received gives meaning to existence and a structure to life in retirement .
4 This is highlighted in Gittins 's ( 1986 ) study of a Devon town in the years 1850–1930 , where she argues that relationships with kin were more important than marriage for the women in terms of the structures of support within which they were engaged .
5 For fourthly he talks about the women in his past , acknowledging that some of it must have been his fault .
6 Contrary to popular myth , many men can remember those small but important details about the women in their lives , such as their birthday and the fact that they have two eyes , one on each side of their nose , probably browny-blue ( the eyes , not the nose ) .
7 It 's like something on a television thing , Crossroads maybe , or General Hospital , or the one about the women in prison . "
8 Tom talked to Belinda very frankly about the women in his life — yes , it was plural — these days .
9 Women have to keep it accessible and alive within them , or they are cut off from their roots , whereas men may live almost entirely through the light of day , and keep in touch with night solely through the women in their lives .
10 She looked at each of the women in turn .
11 It was no longer a fantasy , a ritual extension of the dark dreams of her night times , in which the doctor was to play out some version of her lost father , an ally against the demands of the women in her life .
12 For most of the women in Inventing Ourselves ambiguity proved a treacherous friend , blurring , obscuring , distorting and denying .
13 You could almost hear some of the women in the audience working it out in their heads — if the name 's O'Neil like the good young Father — and that 's her Mother — and she 's his sister — then she 's not married !
14 It would appear that the only Shetlanders who have reason to go into the estates at all , other than a small number of professional Shetlanders who have incomer friends who live there , are young Shetlander girls who are willing to babysit when most of the women in a social circle are attending the same function , or Shetlanders supplying some domestic service to individual households on the estates .
15 My own tears , hot noisy gulping that burns and blotches , that neither you nor any of the women in the group is going to offer to staunch , tears of anger for myself and all of us , anger with the women in the group for making me face up to what I 'm doing to you , for making me want to take out those dusty bundles of old stories from where they 've lain for my lifetime tied up with pink ribbon and reread them and throw them away .
16 Earning the obedience and respect of the women in the house , who saw her as no better than they were , was yet another obstacle .
17 I had not recognized my feelings for one of the women in the women 's group as being of any significance .
18 You get the feeling you 've just walked into an alternative universe where L7 , free of the Women In Rock tag , reign supreme .
19 None of the women in the school kitchen where I worked went to union meetings .
20 Most of the women in the APA 's Psychology of Women Division are recent Ph.Ds , not yet established .
21 Like most of the women in the street , Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all .
22 For example , uterine fibromyomata was the principal diagnosis in almost half ( 47% ) of the women in whom endometriosis was an additional diagnosis .
23 Most of the women in the British version are either photographed naked or written about with regrettable machomisogyny .
24 Intriguingly , many of the women in second or subsequent marriages were more content with this aspect of their sex life than those in their first .
25 A large proportion of the women in the column were pregnant , and many were carrying young babies in their arms .
26 He would ring up one of the women in his little black book and pay for his excesses .
27 Over 90 per cent of the women in the sample felt that tax rates did not influence their work behaviour , with the remainder being about equally divided between the other two options .
28 Based on information of cycle length and cycle irregularity in the period before insemination only 9% of the women in our study required clomiphene to regulate their cycle .
29 Women have male partners who are , on average , older than themselves ; thus the age distribution of men is not necessarily representative of the age distribution of the male partners of the women in the sample ( and vice versa ) .
30 Most of the women in my time do n't screw around indiscriminately , with dozens of different partners . ’
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