Example sentences of "man who [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who wished to resist such turning could insist on keeping to the subject ; and forceful men who had the character of genial good nature could get away with open rebuttal of this kind ; but not all people who interrupted with open rebuttals acquired or maintained that character . |
| 2 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 3 | The man who had raised Irish rally engineering to a higher plain and produced more winning cars than anyone before , headed for Europe with some regrets . |
| 4 | It was odd to sit here , so far away , in sun and shouting , and see the small dark and light rounds of the face of the man who had made those images . |
| 5 | He was thinking , suddenly , about the stop press report on a man who had suffered that fate in Houndsditch late last night . |
| 6 | ‘ If she was so miserable , why was she always smiling ? ’ asked the man who had printed more pictures of Diana than any man alive . |
| 7 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 8 | He looked like a half-starved bum yet he was evidently a man who had known better times . |
| 9 | Morose ; no hint of the chirpy fat man who had brewed more police tea than any three others , in the force , put together . |
| 10 | The fear followed him on to the table at the Rothmans and the man who had pillaged nine titles last season lost to world No 52 Tony Chappel — a player who had managed to take just one frame off him in two previous meetings . |
| 11 | To the man who had solved that problem , a statue stood in one of the main squares . |
| 12 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 13 | Yet Roxborough Tower was kept well by its owners , who once every month or so gathered in the single room which occupied the top floor of the building in the name of the man who had owned this plot of land two hundred years before , and who had left |
| 14 | It is a remarkable picture of a man who had experienced all sorts of difficulties and dangers … but was determined to go on . |
| 15 | At a cemetery in Carpentras in south-eastern France on May 10 , the body of a Jewish man who had died two weeks previously was disinterred and , according to first reports which were later contradicted , impaled ; the grave of a woman was also disturbed , and more than 30 others were damaged . |
| 16 | A BADLY decomposed body found in the Sidlaw Hills near Dundee at the weekend is that of Nealle Wilson , a mentally handicapped man who went missing two years ago , police revealed yesterday . |
| 17 | Her husband David was knocked from his bike and killed just ten days before Christmas last year by a man who 'd drunk three times the legal limit . |
| 18 | It was part of the folklore among their friends , part of the legend which was growing up around-Kevin Ryan , the man who 'd married old Heraghty 's daughter and made a small furniture-manufacturing business into a multi-million-dollar corporation with branches right across the States . |
| 19 | Under the circumstances , however , there was not a man who cared to place absolute faith in mere machinery . |
| 20 | In Rosemary 's book , ‘ lecherous , cretinous , oversexed reptile ’ was too polite a term for a man who seemed to think any female working for his father was fair game . |
| 21 | Harvey said ‘ Hello ’ four times , then suddenly he was talking to a bald-headed man who seemed to have four overcoats on at once . |
| 22 | He 's a man who has crushed all softness in himself , so why should his son be indulged , be allowed to cry and display his grief , be stroked and cuddled and consoled when he never was ? |
| 23 | It sounds like a man who has squashed five centuries of a nation 's literature in his palm . |
| 24 | Hatty , Finance Minister in Whitehead 's liberal Cabinet , London-born , is a thoughtful man who has given outstanding service ; he was largely responsible for starting Marimba Township , where Africans working in Salisbury were enabled to build and own their own houses . |
| 25 | Moving like a man who has played more squash than he need , he spun round , drew back his right and booted his wigless ex-sidekick right up his grey-flannelled arse . |
| 26 | Bach speaks of such things with the passion of a self-made man who has beaten personal adversity . |
| 27 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 28 | He was like a man who has made one step forward into unknown territory and stands looking for a path . |
| 29 | So what does 1991 hold for the man who has survived several years of mental agony and still found the strength to come smiling through ? |
| 30 | So what possesses a man who has reached that pinnacle to swap a prestigious City office for a charity based in one of the more dubious London suburbs ? |