Example sentences of "women [verb] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A women needs a man to support her . |
| 2 | The women deserve a right to have a proper training , not a watered down version . |
| 3 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 4 | Further , women felt a responsibility to remain locked into that system of kin support in a way not replicated for men , who were more at liberty to ‘ get better jobs , migrate , emigrate and abrogate all responsibility for parents and siblings ’ ( ibid . |
| 5 | The crunch came when it was realised that these competent women had a propensity to marry ( Martindale , 1939 ) . |
| 6 | I do remember saying that these Asian women had a lot to teach us about family life . |
| 7 | Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry . |
| 8 | We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester . |
| 9 | on my left said earlier , and wo wo women have a tendency to say yes to everything that they can do , just because they can do it , and they know they can but they tend to heap up far too many obligations , and that causes many carers |
| 10 | If anything , Letterman thinks , these women have a compulsion to reach a higher plane of conversation that strains credulity . |