Example sentences of "with a woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , here I am in bed with a woman , ’ said Lucy . |
| 3 | In it , a small child roams the streets , talking to strangers , until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram . |
| 4 | She shared her home with a woman friend and was intensely secretive about her privacy , leaving complicated embargoes in her will on the publication of her letters , many of which she destroyed . |
| 5 | After we split up he started going out with a woman who wanted to go out on the town every night — like him . ’ |
| 6 | You may just be bored with your current relationship , and your boredom is making the idea of an affair with a woman seem all the more exciting . |
| 7 | This is a true story of one of the many tragedies of apartheid — a white South African policeman falls in love with a woman of mixed race , resigns from his job and goes to live with her in Cape Town . |
| 8 | Poor Mr Macgregor turned up after having lain with a woman but almost immediately fell backwards downstairs . |
| 9 | ‘ My headmaster always used to say : ‘ Never sleep with a woman unless you 're prepared to marry her ! ' ’ |
| 10 | If he had allowed her to take him back to London , he might have been stuck for life with a woman in her thirties ( and getting older by the day ) . |
| 11 | These points are well illustrated in John Warton 's narration of his talk with a woman in the last stages of consumption , to whom he gives the name ‘ Mary Barton ’ . |
| 12 | The conduct which constitutes rape is unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent ; the fault element required is that the man intends to have sexual intercourse , and either knows that the woman is not consenting or ‘ could not care less ’ whether she is not consenting . |
| 13 | Never sleep with a woman whose troubles jolt . |
| 14 | That Alida Thorne could believe , but she was not prepared to agree with Isabel Lavender at this moment , with a woman whose behaviour had become disturbing in the extreme . |
| 15 | Since I am a short , plump , Asian young woman , with glasses and shortish hair , I 've never found an advert with a woman looking anything like me . |
| 16 | Admittedly , dealing with a woman as dominating as Catherine de Medici and a family as powerful as the Guises , which all three had to do , would have put strains on personalities far stronger than Francis II , Charles IX and Henri III ; but the fact remains that while , unlike Mary , they did not show indifference to their kingdom , they were exactly like her in failing to assert their control of it . |
| 17 | There seemed little alternative , with a woman whose reaction to them was to tolerate — and to laugh . |
| 18 | Special privileges for women who establish businesses are among Labour 's measures which will create a two-tier measure of achievement , with a woman 's career success accorded to the feminist movement rather than the woman herself . |
| 19 | Pillars of Gold starts off with a woman 's body being fished out of Camden Lock and a woman called Barbs going missing . |
| 20 | The fantasy of living with a woman in a state of openness and trust . |
| 21 | By coincidence it was also Epstein who brought Modigliani together with a woman writer who was to have a profound effect upon his life — Beatrice Hastings . |
| 22 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 23 | Ludens had never got on so easily with a woman , not even with Sylvia , who had always been ‘ playing the feminine ’ . |
| 24 | With a woman , anyway . |
| 25 | Ormrod J. seems to hold in Corbett that sexual relations with a woman with an artificial vagina would amount neither to consummation nor to adultery . |
| 26 | On ‘ Do n't Be So Hard ’ he appears to be empathising with a woman who is overpowered and made to feel insignificant by her partner : ‘ At home , she tells him little lies , like onions always make her cry . ’ |
| 27 | He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday . |
| 28 | In a disagreeable episode which remains very obscure , Green in 1803 became involved with a woman called Agnes Brathwaite , on whose ‘ abominable perjuries ’ he was committed to Kendal jail on 24th August . |
| 29 | It was now dusk but the old librarian had the sconce torches lit and gave Corbett what he had requested , a candle and a battered copy of the ‘ Sic et Non ’ , the brilliant satire on scholastic theology by the Parisian scholar , Abelard , who had lost his family as well as his testicles for ridiculing the theologians and then compounding his sin by falling in love with a woman . |
| 30 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |