Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] women ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | A social worker was called in and , with a lot of support , Annie moved to a women 's refuge and then to a small flat . |
2 | The 1927 Conference heard a moving appeal on the issue from a miner 's wife who referred to the women 's support for male trade unionists during the 1926 General Strike : ‘ Surely you will not turn the women down on this question because it was the women who stood four-square with you in your dispute ? ’ |
3 | Not only was there overwhelming support on the picket line ( from trade unionists and from many feminists who identified with the women 's movement rather than any particular trade union ) but on 15 June local postal workers at Cricklewood started a boycott of Grunwick mail . |
4 | She played in the women 's basketball and used to ride her bike around the university . |
5 | The giant wrought-iron entrance gates , for example , came from the people of Tetbury , the fruit trees espaliered against the walls of the vegetable garden were presented by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers and the herbs came from a women 's institute in Sussex . |
6 | Many came to the women 's movement from backgrounds where the state was viewed as an instrument for enacting their own class specific demands . |
7 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
8 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
9 | Jennifer Capriati , who stormed onto the women 's pro tour at the age of 14 last year , is a product of both the Macci and Saddlebrook academies . |
10 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
11 | The hareems , including ours , started to arrive about 9.30 and we drifted into the women 's majlis dressed in our best . |
12 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
13 | Three seeds fell in the women 's event . |
14 | Harbury rebelled and went to a Women 's Word press reception instead . |
15 | And certainly by what she did with the women 's support group I think she was . |
16 | In 1912 , Key wrote of the women 's movement as ideally winning back ‘ the wife to the husband , the mother to the children , and thereby the home to all ’ . |
17 | I jogged round in 23.2 seconds , a trifle faster than Simmone Jacobs ran in the women 's event . |
18 | Young refugee women enlisted in the Women 's Auxiliary Territorial Service . |
19 | During the First World War she volunteered for the Women 's Reserve Ambulance and twice won the Croix de Charité for gallantry for heroic rescues in Salonica . |