Example sentences of "man who [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reagan 's staff had the advantage of a candidate responsive to direction , a man who knew about the importance of good camera angles and could read from a teleprompter with the effortless ease of a trained , accomplished communicator . |
| 2 | At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday a jury decided that a farm labourer , William Shepherd , 19 , of Cherrywood Drive , Beith , was the man who ran from the crowd to deliver the blow . |
| 3 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 4 | Those who walked the perimeter path went behind him , and no one spoke to the man who gazed at the wall that held him . |
| 5 | In Brixton he interviewed yet another man who admitted to the murder but was swiftly cleared . |
| 6 | ‘ A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea . |
| 7 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 8 | The second man who died in the fire was leading fire fighter John Davis , from Leominster , a part-timer for 13 years , also married with 2 children . |
| 9 | However , I want to ask the name of the man who walked over the child . ’ |
| 10 | Perfect for campaigning with , perfect for posters , TV , films and interviews , ’ said Bush a tall , silver-haired man who speaks in the burr of his native Wiltshire in England 's West Country . |
| 11 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 12 | I bought a bottle of something special from a man who came to the door . |
| 13 | ‘ Mother bought it from a man who came to the door to sell things . |
| 14 | These images paled before the man who came through the archway that led to the deeper mysteries of the church . |
| 15 | It was from here , I reflected , looking through the windows at a small scattered town , that the despatcher had spoken to George and me the previous evening : and while I watched , George appeared outside and was met by a man who came from the station . |
| 16 | And he told him how to listen to God — how any man who listens in the spirit of ‘ Not my will , but God 's ’ can receive definite , accurate direction and instruction . |
| 17 | Afterwards we have a pint in the welcoming pub , where there 's a poem on the wall about telling a man who boozes by the company he chooses . |
| 18 | This man who believed in the sanctity of life , its life , not hers . |
| 19 | And Keynes was , after all , a Treasury man who believed in the value of fiscal control and more or less balanced budgets over the medium term . |
| 20 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
| 21 | In an epistemological parable , ‘ The Man who looked into the Future ’ , Allen Wheelis describes a man 's attempts to escape from the fluidity of the present and imprint value on his life . |
| 22 | It was for the man who looked after the sewage outfall ; he had to be here to open the sluice whenever the tide was right . |
| 23 | He recalls a Paston man who rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava : |
| 24 | The man who fell through the roof was n't after any of the family jewels . |
| 25 | How was it possible for any man who fell within the circle of his radiance to forgive Hotspur for being Hotspur ? |
| 26 | He 's got a friend — this black man who comes to the house sometimes . |
| 27 | The Crown lawyer said the court would hear that the probable target was a man who worked for the Environment Department and whose tasks also involved working at Ministry of Defence properties . |
| 28 | No , Mr Patel was very sorry , no , he had not seen the face of the man who worked on the car . |
| 29 | Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car . |
| 30 | When he did , the prim man who worked at the counter often inspected them and said , ‘ I doubt if this will come out , sir , but we 'll do our best . ’ |