Example sentences of "man who [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five students , aged about 20 , were filming the public for a project when they were approached by a man who asked to borrow the Ferguson Videostar camcorder . |
| 2 | A man who wished to build a villa in Benghazi , but was frustrated by his expectation that , if he did , he would have no protection strong enough to prevent immediate expropriation , explained the collapse of his hopes for a more elegant and civilized life . |
| 3 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 6 | For the man who had written the song ‘ My little island girl ’ Lawrence 's blend of the sophisticated with savage sexuality was particularly disturbing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The man who had led the procession stepped forward and sprinkled the coffin with spiced rum . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the Club section was a tall and clean-cut young man who had made the flight after connecting from Houston . |
| 11 | Nothing would suggest the man who had collected the material for Psychopathia Sexualis . |
| 12 | Against her yielding flesh she could feel his heart thundering like a man who had run a marathon . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | CRAIG CHALMERS had the look of a man who had completed a job well-done . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A nun told us , for example , of a man who had seen a massacre take place in his village . |
| 19 | He was , after all , a man who had seen the enemy and come home to tell the tale . |
| 20 | In reality , it is run by a Dr Lincoln Adams , a man who had seen the TK potential in all of these children . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then Ruth saw that he deliberately gave the man who had asked the question only half the bacon ration he was entitled to . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |