Example sentences of "woman who had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told one elderly woman who had not read the story : ‘ It may be worse than you think . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |
| 3 | ‘ A remarkable recovery , ’ drawled a young woman who had just joined the group . |
| 4 | A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher . |
| 5 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 6 | She took a deep breath , forced herself not to feel intimidated by the exceptionally well-groomed woman who had just entered the boutique , and ventured in . |
| 7 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 8 | A little further away was a young woman who had just arrived on her horse , with her maid on foot . |
| 9 | It follows from this that any woman who had previously had consensual sexual relations with a man would similarly be protected if on a subsequent occasion she refused consent and he raped her . |
| 10 | Would she like to spend her days with a woman who had already claimed a bit of her heart ? |
| 11 | Another woman who had already had her baby was in such fits of laughter that she split her stitches . |
| 12 | She had been in her mid-forties , a smart , efficient-looking woman who had hardly taken her eyes off him throughout the trial . |
| 13 | She came to the house in response to a card Miss Matlock had placed in a local newsagent 's window and Miss Matlock took her on to replace a cleaning woman who had recently left . ’ |
| 14 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 15 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 16 | A woman who had never held her own child or even seen it . |
| 17 | A named and photographed woman who had apparently beaten off The Fox by biting him was a major story in one Sunday newspaper : ‘ her courage saved her from becoming another of Fairley 's rape victims ’ . |
| 18 | The invisible flutter and swoop of black creatures , still furious with the woman who had once banished them . |
| 19 | The only woman who had ever loved him . |