[〈det person.n〉 think.v (:p about.p 〈the grandmother.n〉)]
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business or making her way in the world, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I thought about my father’s grandmother and how I didn’t want to see her just before she left, a person I would hardly recognize at that point because of her psychological ailments and necessity to be grouchy.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
“And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (CC And)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (CC And)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(NP (DT a) (NN woman))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from vanilla balance to Boomkin, after years of being passed over for raid spots because she was an offspec.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business or making her way in the world, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman.
(Parse)
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(VP (VBP hear)
(S (NP (DT a) (NN woman))
(VP (VB talk)
(PP (IN about)
(NP (NP (DT the) (NNS difficulties))
(PP (IN of)
(S (VP (VP (VBG starting)
(NP (PRP$ her) (JJ own) (NN business)))
(CC or)
(VP (VBG making)
(NP (PRP$ her) (NN way))
(PP (IN in)
(NP (DT the) (NN world)))))
(, ,)
(NP (PRP I))
(VP (VBP think)
(PP (IN about)
(NP (NP (PRP$ my) (NN grandmother)) (, ,)
(SBAR (WHNP (WP who))
(S (VP (VBD worked)
(NP (PRP$ her) (NN way)) (ADVP (RB up)
(PP (IN from)
(NP (DT the) (JJ secretarial) (NN pool))
(PP (TO to)
(NP (JJ middle) (NN management)))))
(, ,)
(PP (IN despite)
(NP (NNS years)))))
(PP (IN of)
(S (VP (AUXG being)
(VP (VBN passed) (PRT (RP over))
(PP (IN for)
(NP (NNS promotions)))
(SBAR (IN because)
(S (NP (PRP she))
(VP (AUX was)
(NP (DT a) (NN woman))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I think about someone’s grandmother or great aunt that needs a bit more stability.
(Parse)
(S1 (S (NP (PRP I))
(VP (VBP think)
(PP (IN about)
(NP (NP (NP (NN someone) (POS 's)) (NN grandmother) (CC or) (JJ great) (NN aunt))
(SBAR (WHNP (WDT that))
(S (VP (VBZ needs)
(NP (ADJP (NP (DT a) (NN bit)) (JJR more)) (NN stability)))))
(. .)))
And 540 more sentences.
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