Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and a woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents again refused consent for the operation , but the operation was eventually successfully conducted following the intervention of social workers and a woman judge . |
| 2 | Two teenage girls and a woman were hurt . |
| 3 | Allitt , formerly a nurse at Grantham Hospital in Lincolnshire , denies murdering four children , the attempted murder of 10 children and a woman of 79 and alternative charges of grievous bodily harm . |
| 4 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |
| 5 | POLICE hunting the contract killers of accountant David Wilson arrested six men and a woman yesterday . |
| 6 | Police said earlier there were no developments in the investigation into the attack by eight white youths and a woman near Quaddus 's home in Stepney . |
| 7 | There had been three girls and a woman at first , now there was only this one . |
| 8 | The incident occurred 48 hours after three men and a woman were shot dead allegedly infiltrating up the River Tigris by boat . |
| 9 | In the midnight stillness , Rozanov pointed out that we were three men and a woman — as in Pushkin 's story about improvisation , Egyptian Nights . |
| 10 | The tale soon ran round Devonport — of a dead body carried across country by three men and a woman . |
| 11 | They were a group of three men and a woman , patrolling the Central Line trains westbound from Oxford Circus . |
| 12 | There were four of them — three men and a woman , as was later revealed , though , that they are tall and broad of shoulder and walked with that kind of lithe confidence and grace seen in GalactiGames athletes in peak condition . |
| 13 | Three men and a woman are being questioned by police in connection with the murder of a car dealer whose remains were found in a lake . |
| 14 | A late Victorian at sixty could look forward to scarcely a dozen more years of life ; a contemporary sixty-year-old man can expect almost twenty more years and a woman even more . |
| 15 | All the accused , nine men and a woman , are charged with conspiracy to supply heroin and will appear before the city 's magistrates court . |
| 16 | Last Friday , a sheriff at Kilmarnock granted Cunninghame District Council an eviction notice on the nine men and a woman living at a house in Gladstone Road , Saltcoats , Ayrshire . |
| 17 | It involved two satyrs and a woman and was very obscene indeed . |
| 18 | Drawings of three suspects , two men and a woman , are posted in the church . |
| 19 | Yet there is an interesting side to the story that emerged in 1888 , some 165 years later , when workmen digging in Woodcote Road , close to the murder site , discovered three bodies — of two men and a woman . |
| 20 | These would be either two women and a man , or two men and a woman , and the Hearings would be conducted as informally as possible , in surroundings that would not be intimidating to children . |
| 21 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |
| 22 | On the train to Stranraer and on the steamer to Larne two men and a woman shadowed their every movement . |
| 23 | Helped by the gallery owner and a passer-by , he frog-marched the two men and a woman to a police station in Toxteth , Liverpool . |
| 24 | Two men and a woman have also been charged . |
| 25 | Two men and a woman were taken to hospital after the explosion outside a branch of the National Westminster Bank in Panton Street . |
| 26 | You handled Archer well — and two men and a woman travelling together attract less attention . ’ |
| 27 | There was a group of three at the bar , two men and a woman . |
| 28 | It is some three centuries old and commemorates three individuals , two men and a woman , who died in the sectarian ‘ killing times ’ of this period . |
| 29 | Two men and a woman armed with grenades hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 727 airliner on a flight from Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia to Addis Ababa , the capital , on Sept. 4 and forced the pilot to land in Djibouti [ for Aug. 28 hijacking see p. 39042 ] . |
| 30 | The defendants , two men and a woman , are accused of conspiring to supply the drug LSD . |