Example sentences of "woman who [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman who became a man 20 years ago says there may be up to 60 transsexuals living in County Durham . |
| 2 | Tennyson 's poem , though , is about a woman who lures a man to his doom , a man apparently of another race , so that this allusion in turn provides a further interpretation of the fates of Antony and Burbank . |
| 3 | Actually , a man greatly appreciates a woman who bears a lamp ; he depends on the feminine light more deeply than most men are willing to admit . |
| 4 | His wife , Pamela , whom fortunately he had left behind , was an acid-tongued woman who managed a fleet of launderettes . |
| 5 | The fastest man received a bottle of champagne compared to the fastest woman who got a bottle of wine for her efforts . |
| 6 | WHAT a difference between my experience and that of a Swindon woman who receives a letter 90 minutes after it was posted . |
| 7 | The woman who had a haemorrhage for twelve years , and probably suffered from haemophilia , touched the cloak of Jesus believing that this was all she had to do to be healed . |
| 8 | I once had a thank you for rescuing a woman who had a baby in Woodstock . |
| 9 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |
| 10 | And a woman who offered a reward was Sliwa 's actress sister . |
| 11 | One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine . |
| 12 | She began to exchange odd words with the others , the Afghan 's owner , tall and bearded in home-knitted sweaters full of mistakes , the woman who ran a boutique a street away and her argumentative pekinese , and an Alsatian with a middle-aged man in dark suits and expensive shoes who looked like an advertisement for men 's tailoring , the kind who would be bound to have the right clothes for any occasion . |
| 13 | In the New Testament Jesus uses two images to convey God 's extravagant concern for the world : one is the shepherd who risks the rest of the flock in order to go searching for the lost sheep ; the other is the woman who turns a house upside down looking for lost coins . |
| 14 | A woman who caused a row when she applied for a teaching job under a false identity has now joined the debate over children 's reading . |
| 15 | A woman who owns a castle worth more than a million pounds is having her mortgage paid by the state — but she says she 's planning to return all the money . |
| 16 | Meanwhile a woman who adopts a kairos approach is to see herself as one whom God has now deigned to choose , and privileged at that . |
| 17 | A woman who wanted a divorce because her husband made love to her not very often and not very well did n't get it . |
| 18 | Morale was shown by a woman who dialled a number in Buenos Aires at random and sang two choruses of Rule Britannia to whoever it was on the end of the line . |
| 19 | Twenty years ago , a woman who reported a rape could expect to have her name splashed across the papers , her misery often compounded by the insinuation that she 'd ‘ asked for it ’ . |
| 20 | And you undo your bra , never kissed a woman who wears a bra before . |
| 21 | One of the most dramatic and beautiful of all operas , it concerns a woman who conceives a child out of wedlock and is rejected by the baby 's father ; she is concealed by her stepmother , who , out of concern for the girl , drowns the baby soon after its birth . |
| 22 | Mrs Bradford was a rather severe Christian woman who admired a sense of responsibility in others and was always fair . |
| 23 | Not quite so bad is the man or woman who starts a diet every Monday , is quite good until Friday , breaks out into wild eating over the weekend , and starts again on Monday . |
| 24 | She also made a point of keeping in touch with every woman who fostered a baby from the Foundling Hospital as the charity was so dear to her husband 's heart . |
| 25 | A WOMAN who survived a murder plot by her greedy husband got a passport to happiness last night . |
| 26 | As well as accepting the role of motherhood , a woman who has a child is also faced with the need to accept facts about time , and ageing . |
| 27 | AN 80-year-old woman who lost a leg because of cancer but who nonetheless still campaigns for the handicapped , was rewarded yesterday for her ‘ triumph over adversity ’ . |
| 28 | A woman who chairs a meeting is either a chairwoman or a chair , never a chairman . |