Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] a [adj] woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must not imagine that I am a pure woman . |
| 2 | I am a dying woman . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I am remembering ; and please remember , too , Great-grandmother , that I am not a miss any more ; I am a married woman who has run your house for years and has had to put up with a man of your choosing . ’ |
| 4 | I am a strong woman . |
| 5 | ‘ I am a rich woman ; he left everything to me , and so he should have done , after all that I sacrificed for him . |
| 6 | You think I am a dangerous woman ? |
| 7 | I am a young woman of 30 years , married with one loved and cared for child , whom I would never leave in such a situation . |
| 8 | In the end , I am a better woman , for my values are secure , they have been tried and not found wanting . |
| 9 | ‘ I am a real woman , ’ she said with a puzzled smile . |
| 10 | I am a changed woman , I 'm afraid . |
| 11 | I am a wicked woman , she thought , to speak to my mother , who is eighty-nine years old and can not help herself , in that way . |
| 12 | I am a wicked woman and it is a punishment that I am also ill . |
| 13 | Is it because I am a bad woman , a selfish woman , the kind who chooses to stay childless : or am I an unhappy woman , an unfortunate woman , and ca n't have them ? |
| 14 | A sequence of six lines with the same rhyme are given to Dame Sirith as , initially , she professes her conventional goodness and innocence to Wilekin : ( " I am a holy woman ; I know nothing of witchcraft but with almsgiving to good men I sustain my life each day , and offer my paternoster and my creed that God should help those in their need who help me my life to lead and should grant that all should go well with them … ) |
| 15 | ‘ I am a brave woman who is frightened only of the dark and her husband . ’ |
| 16 | I am a lesbian women of colour whose children eat regularly because I work in a university . |
| 17 | I 'm a 27-year-old woman and I 've had a bald patch about the size of a 10 pence piece on the top of my head for about six weeks now and the hair does n't appear to be re-growing . |
| 18 | " The fact that I 'm a fallen woman . " |
| 19 | I 'm a married woman ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Aye , I 'm a real woman now . |
| 21 | I 'm a respectable woman , and I wo n't have no ‘ goings on ’ , not if you were ever so high and mighty , the pair of you . |
| 22 | Deep down , you still do n't think I 'm a normal woman ! |
| 23 | I 'm a French woman , and proud of it . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm a busy woman . ’ |
| 25 | She thinks I 'm a wicked woman . |
| 26 | I 'm a wise woman writing in a woman 's magazine . |
| 27 | ‘ Mother , ye 're a devious woman . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And you are a good woman , more 's the pity . ’ |
| 29 | People think you are a good woman , but you are lying to them ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You are a married woman , ’ he said in his best imitation of an authoritarian voice . |