Example sentences of "man [pron] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you wanted to be a removal man you had to find the work to justify you having an A licence , but of course you could n't because you had n't got an A licence to do it with . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We also ‘ drowned male kittens , beat up the man who came to read the meter , and held covens where we stuck pins in male voodoo dollies ’ . |
| 5 | The man who came to personify the recklessness and corruption at the centre of the S&L scandal , Charles Keating Jr , 68 , was sentenced on April 10 to 10 years in prison and was fined $250,000 . |
| 6 | Peter and Nona had their backs against a wall , they were facing the man who seemed to inhabit the tunnel . |
| 7 | In this conversation he cited the case of Montaigne : here was a man who seemed to understand the kind of world he was living in . |
| 8 | But surely the fact that Rowell has been the brains behind the most successful side in modern British rugby , as well as the man who managed to mesh the England Students into a force so strong that they were able to play World Cup quarter-finalists Canada on their home turf this summer and lose by less than 20 points , puts him on a par with Best . |
| 9 | Bath 's Stuart Barnes , the man who wants to take the fly-half 's job from Rob Andrew , will doubtless bear this in mind if the plaudits are flying in England training sessions between now and the game against the French on January 16 . |
| 10 | A man who attempts to jump the queue will be restrained by the police . |
| 11 | This was all fantasy , of course , for one or two people had come , Evans or Owens from Hadleigh , the coypu man , a meter reader , the man who wanted to do the garden and whom he had turned away with a lie . |
| 12 | He was a man who wanted to speak the text exactly as written . |
| 13 | However , when Roo Management obtained the necessary planning permissions for conversion to a hotel , it did not proceed with the conversion but simply put the house on the market ; and the house has been bought by none other than Mr Whitaker , the very man who wanted to keep the staterooms intact . |
| 14 | Consumed with rage and anxiety , Tobias Beventini , physician , prowled through the warm , pretty villa of the loveliest woman in Nicosia , bumping into maids carrying baskets of linen and other maids bearing pressed robes and doublets , concealing himself from the man who wanted to trim the fluff round his scalp , and using long Latin words to the other man who wanted to polish his spurs and his jewellery . |
| 15 | The phone bill took his metre twice around the clock , to the amazement of the man who called to calculate the costs . |
| 16 | Clarke is a burly man who tends to grab the ball and go — more suited to the wing than midfield . |
| 17 | Police said : ‘ A man who appeared to know the baby 's mother made an anonymous call just after midnight from a kiosk in the village . ’ |