Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There is no serious challenge to this account and the impression remains that he was not a ‘ madman ’ but a normal man who had met a hitch-hiker who unusually ‘ spurned sex ’ . |
2 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
3 | For the man who had written the song ‘ My little island girl ’ Lawrence 's blend of the sophisticated with savage sexuality was particularly disturbing . |
4 | The tribunal rules that Barclays discriminated against her by making her retire at 60 , when a man who had joined the bank at the same time could work until 65 . |
5 | The man who had led the procession stepped forward and sprinkled the coffin with spiced rum . |
6 | Clearly , the man who had overthrown the Somoza dictatorship ten years earlier , who first killed a man when he was in his mid-teens , and who spent seven years in jail , was getting advice from a higher source . |
7 | In the Club section was a tall and clean-cut young man who had made the flight after connecting from Houston . |
8 | Nothing would suggest the man who had collected the material for Psychopathia Sexualis . |
9 | Against her yielding flesh she could feel his heart thundering like a man who had run a marathon . |
10 | They also included one unusual name : Donald Swift-Hook , the man who had run the CEGB 's own research effort into wind power for eight years , agreed to give his views on our behalf . |
11 | CRAIG CHALMERS had the look of a man who had completed a job well-done . |
12 | The Falangist leader , Hedilla , met with a group of Alphonsine monarchists which included José María de Areilza , erstwhile right-wing parliamentary candidate for Bilbao , clandestine messenger between some of the military conspirators and nephew of the man who had propitiated the contact between Consul Cavaletti and the Basque president , Aguirre . |
13 | It fell to Joseph Franklin , the Rochdale Manager , to succeed a man who had become a legend in his time , but whose legacy was not an easy one . |
14 | And topped up again to pay for the repair of the flat roof over the kitchen , and the man who had done the work should have been prosecuted for fraud . |
15 | A nun told us , for example , of a man who had seen a massacre take place in his village . |
16 | He was , after all , a man who had seen the enemy and come home to tell the tale . |
17 | In reality , it is run by a Dr Lincoln Adams , a man who had seen the TK potential in all of these children . |
18 | Men jumped on to the bank to secure it , and the man who had given the orders leapt overboard with a silver plash , two others behind him . |
19 | Radio Cleveland broadcaster Alan Wright said he was overwhelmed by the response when he raised the case of a Redcar man who had to call the police to get rid of Sure Style salesmen . |
20 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
21 | Its leader was Miloš Obrenović , a man who had played a part in the Karadjordje revolt , but who had remained in Serbia when many of the leaders of the first rising had fled across the river to Austrian territory . |
22 | Then Ruth saw that he deliberately gave the man who had asked the question only half the bacon ration he was entitled to . |
23 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
24 | The report on the coarse wares is very illuminating for the views at that time of a man who had spent a lifetime handling pottery . |
25 | They were hardly , he thought , the shoes you 'd expect to find on a man who had spent the day in London unless he had walked in the parks or along the towpath of the canal . |
26 | From the persuasive pen of Committee member Richard Hoggart , himself a working class man who had seized the opportunities of formal education , the critique flowed power-filly . |
27 | Occasionally a tax-gathering patrol would seize a man who had sown a catch-crop in the fertile north and in effect hold him to ransom until he paid up : that would be a temporary recognition of force majeure rather than an acceptance of permanent obligation . |
28 | Police identified the bomber as an Azerbaijani man who had shouted a warning to other passengers just before the blast , but by Aug. 8 investigators had concluded that he was not a terrorist but a dishonest businessman trying to escape his creditors by faking his own death . |
29 | Which , from a man who had fought a hook for a goodly part of his life , was something of a collector 's item . |
30 | It was built as a monument to Thomas Coats , the man who had established the family 's cotton thread empire . |