Example sentences of "woman who [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty two year old decorated U D R veteran , Albert Cooper , was set up by a woman who left a booby-trapped car at this garage for repairs . |
| 2 | Behind the public smiles Diana is a lonely and unhappy young woman who endures a loveless marriage , is seen as an outsider by the Queen and the rest of the royal family and is frequently at odds with the aims and objectives of the pervasive royal system . |
| 3 | A woman who bears a male child is unclean for seven days , plus an additional thirty-three days , to complete the process of purification . |
| 4 | Harriet Walter plays her excellently as a woman who combines a strong sexuality with a defiant nobility of character . |
| 5 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 6 | As one woman who had a disabled unemployed husband commented : |
| 7 | Joseph Robinson had blessed his luck to marry a woman who had a certain expectation of such a fine spot and his vigorous commerce had turned a pothouse into a stopover for some of the best in the county , in the land even . |
| 8 | ( I excluded the one woman who had a full-time job from this tabulation since this was the one respect in which her housework situation was not directly comparable with that of the other women . ) |
| 9 | While they were eating , a woman who had a bad name crept into the room and knelt at the feet of Jesus . |
| 10 | One of the problems in the public sector is that no one keeps a balance sheet , so there is no proper record of maintenance costs and of depreciating assets — whereas the business man or woman who manages a private care home is alive to the importance of maintenance , and of protecting the value of that asset . |
| 11 | I settled for a quality pie inside the ground — they were temperature-controlled by a woman who stuck a fancy knitting needle in them all . |
| 12 | When I first arrived , at the age of twelve , I was advised to try a family in Borgo delle Colonne , a long cobbled street with an arcade along one side , very typical of Parma , where a woman who ran a small dairy business undertook to look after me . |
| 13 | Some have special requirements , like a playgroup looking for a church hall , or the woman who wanted a redundant church in Wales for a design company . |
| 14 | So we set out to find the truth behind the mystery — and discovered a woman who forged a dazzling career with precision and determination . |
| 15 | Sometimes we are not convincing because what we say is belied by our actions — for instance , a woman who wears a permanent fixed smile while trying to reprimand a subordinate , or when returning faulty goods to a shop . |
| 16 | On the basis of this table , it can be said that the two variables are connected : a woman who declares a positive attitude to housework is likely also to have a high specification of standards and routines . |
| 17 | The pair were quizzed over the abduction of a woman who underwent a terrifying 15-hour ordeal after calling a cab to collect her from a pub . |
| 18 | And I am not the only woman who wants a fulfilling working life and domesticity as well . |
| 19 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 20 | However , only one in five of the women who experienced a severe life event or major difficulty subsequently developed depression . |
| 21 | PREGNANT women who eat a light snack shortly before giving birth can shorten labour and produce a stronger heartbeat in their baby , a study carried out in Belfast shows . |
| 22 | One view has it that they are the trusted preservers of law and order , men and women who do a difficult job very well and who deserve to be respected and admired throughout the communities which they protect . |
| 23 | The Conservative Party is not looking for experts , but it is looking for men and women who have a good working knowledge of contemporary politics and a proven track record of experience in the party , and who above all know their own minds . |
| 24 | Members are all ages , from young mothers to greatgrandmothers , and it is wonderful to be able to chat to women who have a whole range of experience . |
| 25 | We need to understand how and why male fantasies may commonly differ from female ones , and why the sorts of fantasies I have mentioned , which may in some ways seem antithetical to feminism , may still have a strong appeal to women who have a feminist allegiance . |
| 26 | The world is filled with sad women who put a brave face on their unhappiness , even on a tropical island . |
| 27 | Until recently , many of those women who experience a light vaginal discharge at certain times between their periods may have thought that they were the only ones to have this problem . |
| 28 | Women who want a satisfying lover should go to Switzerland . |