Example sentences of "woman [Wh pn] [vb past] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was married before-for a long time — to a woman who had an incurable disease . |
| 2 | A WIFE accused of punching a woman who had an affair with her husband has been cleared of assault . |
| 3 | A woman who staged an IRA bomb hoax at an army barracks after being jilted by a soldier has been jailed for four and a half months . |
| 4 | Does he really believe that the woman who spent an hour asking questions would have passively accepted everything a female consultant told her with no queries ? |
| 5 | The related thorny question of abortion was another topic , and Mr. Jenks was cheered when , referring to his work in hospitals , he said : ‘ I have never seen a woman who wanted an abortion , but plenty who felt they had no alternative ’ , citing education to stop unwanted pregnancies as the real solution . |
| 6 | Corbett was completely mystified by his servant 's energy and zest for life and passionate attachment to any woman who arched an eyebrow at him . |
| 7 | ‘ She must be a strangely unimaginative or insensitive woman if she can bear to keep in touch with a woman who started an affair with her husband when she was pregnant with their child ! ’ |
| 8 | Similar controls could not be identified for the women who had had hysterectomy , so comparison was made with all the women who had an intact uterus and an intact gall bladder ( n=950 , including 41 with asymptomatic gall stones ) . |
| 9 | Frank et al prospectively examined women who had an unplanned pregnancy at recruitment which ended in either an induced abortion ( n=433 ) or naturally ( n=1035 ) . |
| 10 | Chlorosis , which was described as an anaemia and commonly referred to as the ‘ green sickness ’ because of the appearance of its victims , was regarded by doctors as a middle class ailment , contracted by women who led an idle , self-indulgent life . |
| 11 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |