Example sentences of "[adj] man who [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fat Trask choked with laughter , spattering half-chewed pasta over another man who slapped him upside the head . |
| 2 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 3 | There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation . |
| 4 | Danny Brady claimed damages after claiming he was unlawfully evicted by 6 men who threatened him and put his belongings on the street . |
| 5 | It 's a story about God , and about one man who followed Him . |
| 6 | Whether Boswell means this sincerely , or as sleight-of-hand to deflect people from calling him a mere snob , must be measured against the remarkable and immortal results of his association with the one man who allowed him to share his company relentlessly . |
| 7 | Paul lay still and silent till the doctor came ; a burly , bearded man who examined him after making sure that they could be left undisturbed . |
| 8 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 9 | Outside , he was confronted by a young man who tackled him over why Yeovil 's Liberal Democrat council had ‘ wasted ’ £3 million on a new public swimming pool . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , we have to put these advertisements in , ’ said the tired , courteous , slightly frayed man who interviewed him , ‘ because we are a service for all schools in the private sector . |
| 11 | This eventually drew him into the company of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] and the band of young men who surrounded him , and the combination of their enthusiasm and insights produced the Christian Socialist movement of 1848 to 1854 . |
| 12 | Walking home from his job one payday , he was set upon by two young men who hit him with a stick , pushed him to the ground and seized his meagre wages . |