Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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1 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |
2 | Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too . |
3 | While there existed a small women 's civil rights organization , the Liga Femenina Salvadorena , whose members were from the impatient middle classes , it could not be described as a broad women 's suffrage movement . |
4 | She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country , and ran a working men 's club . |
5 | ALISON Streeter , 28 , of Dover , set a new women 's world record yesterday when she braved a thunderstorm to complete her 20th Channel swim . |
6 | She set a new women 's record for the Twostar in 1986 when she came 2nd in class with Kitty Hampton in Sony Handicam ( ex Ntombifuti ) and in 1987 completed the AZAB in Quixote . |