Example sentences of "[num] man who [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 2 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 3 | Nothing for him , so he 'd wandered over to pretend an interest in the shop 's felt-covered notice board while he tried to overhear the conversation of two men who were trying on shooting jackets . |
| 4 | The two men who were fighting for the title met privately . |
| 5 | Cleveland firemen were called to British Steel 's blast furnace site at Redcar to release four men who were trapped in a lift which had broken down . |
| 6 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |