Example sentences of "in a woman [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |
| 2 | It was in a woman 's handwriting . |
| 3 | In a woman 's voice he said : |
| 4 | She 'd come across the twins propped up against the garage doors , applauding and screaming with delight at a patter delivered in a woman 's voice . |
| 5 | Events in a woman 's life like childbirth see page 23 , a break-up in a marriage or partnership , or bereavement , can lead to depression . |
| 6 | But it was also we who taught ourselves and those younger than we that love is not the most important thing in a woman 's life . |
| 7 | Child-bearing is thus the primary social duty of a woman , and marriage with its corollary , the puberty rite , is the most important life-cycle ceremony in a woman 's life . |
| 8 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 9 | Events in a woman 's life like childbirth ( see page 23 ) , a break-up in a marriage or partnership , or bereavement , can lead to depression . |
| 10 | Far too many companies appear to ignore this phase in a woman 's life . ’ |
| 11 | If the Lady of the Hearth principle is active in a woman 's life , then it will have a pleasurable and creative quality to it . |
| 12 | Repressive public sanctions would make the move into prostitution a different kind of choice than when it could constitute a temporary and relatively anonymous stage in a woman 's life . |
| 13 | There 's still a lot of mystery , worse , misinformation surrounding this milestone in a woman 's life . |
| 14 | Ealing Studios made films as untypical of itself as Dead of Night ( 1945 ) , a collection of mostly unsettling tales of the fantastic and of hidden desires that erupt from below , Pink String and Sealing Wax ( 1945 ) , in which the son of a strict father becomes the unwitting accomplice in a woman 's murder of her husband , and even a costume melodrama , Saraband for Dead Lovers ( 1948 , Saraband in US ) . |
| 15 | The most important and uncontrollable factor in this peasant society occurs then in a woman 's body . |
| 16 | For example , medical explanations of the ‘ blues ’ tend to favour as the principal causative element biochemical changes taking place in a woman 's body during pregnancy and immediately after birth . |
| 17 | The Kylie and Jason ‘ Are they or are n't they in love ? ’ riddle reached its most bewildering moment in September 1988 when she claimed in a woman 's magazine that … |
| 18 | I 'm a wise woman writing in a woman 's magazine . |
| 19 | You must have read it in a woman 's magazine . ’ |
| 20 | Some people believe that the different intentions of the experimenter and the abortionist , or the different location of the embryo in a petri dish or in a woman 's womb , are morally relevant factors . |
| 21 | One feels that anything to do with card indexes is more in a woman 's line . ’ |
| 22 | The answer … is not to resign ourselves to our women 's role — in a woman 's place — and demand payment for staying put , but to collectivise childcare , to share the responsibility for bringing up children within the community . |
| 23 | This is similar to the contaminating presence of a man , however sympathetic , in a woman 's group , or an education tutor in a staffroom , as teachers talk about changing their practice . |
| 24 | A woman 's dress sense is much less important to more educated men than to those with basic education , while married men are less interested in a woman 's mouth than any other group . |
| 25 | It was from Newtown , and the address was in a woman 's writing . |
| 26 | A LOVELORN man hid in a woman 's attic for three days and recorded her every move on video after she spurned his advances at work . |
| 27 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 28 | The same someone who taught me that there is no pleasure in a woman 's coldness . |
| 29 | ‘ I seem to recall you telling me you took no pleasure in a woman 's coldness , ’ she said with more assurance than she felt . |
| 30 | The pink chintz curtains matched the pink chintz bedspread ; underneath it , prostrate yet fully dressed in a woman 's blouse and man 's dhoti , sprawled the figure of Chaman , the guru of the household . |