Example sentences of "man who have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She answered an advert in a lonely hearts column and started an affair with this man who had stated in the ad that he was a good looking 43-year-old bachelor , comfortably off , with car . |
| 2 | Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized . |
| 3 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 4 | The constable was soon joined by his colleagues and between them they obtained detailed descriptions of the man who had dashed from the direction of the bakery . |
| 5 | He portrayed himself as victim of imperialism , as a man who had suffered in the struggle against colonial rule , but who would not let it beat him . |
| 6 | Employing a night watchman was the solution to his problem , and so without delay Jack was sent to see the wharf manager , who felt that the sprightly-looking man who had served on the Khyber Pass would suit admirably . |
| 7 | The tall black man who had emerged from the Lincoln was dressed in a dark blue three-piece suit that looked incongruously heavy for such a hot day . |
| 8 | He tried to keep his eyes off the little man who had emerged from the ship . |
| 9 | The Leader , following in the track of the horses , went some paces ahead scanning the forest on either side ; behind him followed Hugh , walking close by Marian 's side ; still further back , together but with the width of the track between them , were Michael and the thin man ; and bringing up the rear was Crane , the young man who had run after the horses . |
| 10 | I did n't realize Farouk … ’ she trailed off when she saw Graham and Laidlaw both look past her , their eyes riveted on the man who had appeared in the doorway . |
| 11 | John Lewis , the man who had complained about the effect of financial cuts on safety at Lowermoor , was the only person to be sacked as a result of the incident . |
| 12 | Proudly holding his RFC logbook , in which is a section headed ‘ Rendcomb ’ — here was a man who had flown from the aerodrome not for recreation and a sense of history , but to ready himself and others for war . |
| 13 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |
| 14 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |
| 15 | Her ultimate choice was surprising , for Philippe Le Bas was the son of a man who had sat in the Convention of 1793 and who had never renounced the republican ethos in which his father had brought him up . |
| 16 | The man who had sat in the front passenger-seat leant down and grabbed the girl 's arm , dragged her through the dirt towards the car and pushed her in . |
| 17 | The voice that could reach with ease to the upper gallery of the Shield Theatre sounded in the Holborn drawing-room , calling attention to the silent young man who had arrived with the Professor but so far had not said a word . |
| 18 | We had recently begun to shelter a young man who had deserted from the Italian army in the south and had somehow managed , with the help of various Italians whom he met on the way , to reach Fontanellato . |
| 19 | She glanced at Conrad whose head was near the hatch where she was working and , sure enough , he had transferred his attention from her cat to the young man who had melted into the rocking-chair ; his expression was quieter , more thoughtful . |
| 20 | The man who had read off the crime informed the crowd that the execution should begin . |
| 21 | From Guy 's came a friend and colleague of Dr Barnard , a man who had worked with the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met on many cases and had formed a close professional relationship . |
| 22 | He was an elderly man who had worked on the river all his life and regarded his present job as something of a rest on the way to full retirement . |
| 23 | ‘ I used the only fact I had about the man who had dealt with the News of the World . |
| 24 | Again he was the charming young man who had knocked at the door just ten minutes earlier . |
| 25 | The Rectory children were being confined with difficulty in the pew beneath a brass plate Alexandra could not read without a pang , commemorating a young man who had died in the Charge of the Light Brigade , nearly sixty years ago , when he was only 22 , her own age . |
| 26 | I was going to finish there without saying any more because i cant be arsed writing , but basically there is a rich business man who has remained in the background because he dislikes Howard.Once Howard leaves , the money should come rolling in , or so the story goes . |
| 27 | The saint is the man who has withdrawn from the rough-and-tumble world of everyday living . |
| 28 | Sound advice from a man who has lived in the eyes of the media for the past 10 years . |
| 29 | Readers must decide for themselves but should bear in mind the words of the man who has followed in the footsteps of Mr Jason Donovan as the eponymous star of Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat : ‘ It 's not the easiest thing in the world to be Phillip Schofield 's girlfriend . ’ |
| 30 | For many seconds he just stood where he was , as still as a man who has gazed into the eyes of the Medusa . |