Example sentences of "man who have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus was not executed by the Jewish Sanhedrin -which could , with permission , stone to death a man who had trespassed against Judaic law — but by the Roman administration . |
| 2 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 3 | Upon her death the property was bought by Matthew Lath , a man who had risen from humble origins through hard work and good fortune . |
| 4 | Walsh was a man who had surfaced in public life before . |
| 5 | But when it arose in the 16th Century , it simply denoted a man who had opted for worldly pleasure by marrying , in contrast to a cleric who stayed celibate . |
| 6 | Captain Fred Barker is Senior Master with the hunt , a man who has hunted for 44 years . |
| 7 | It was only to be expected that a man who has written with such insight and style about Calcutta and New York , cricket and the crossing of deserts would do justice to a life-long passion . |
| 8 | Can the government that has been assembled around Mr Beregovoy , the man who has moved from Leftist doctrines to a belief in a mixed economy and who keeps a tight rein on public spending , still be called socialist ? |
| 9 | Thorough advancing is the heartfelt belief of a man who has worked in ninety-seven different countries . |
| 10 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 11 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 12 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |
| 13 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 14 | Anthropologists in various parts of the world have found groups of men who have gone to remarkable lengths to modify and improve the sexual equipment with which nature endowed them . |
| 15 | For this reason , the poppy has been adopted as the flower of remembrance , and a shower of poppies , representing British and Commonwealth fighting men who have died since 1914 , is released at the annual service of remembrance in the Albert Hall , London . |