Example sentences of "man [pron] [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crown lawyer said the court would hear that the probable target was a man who worked for the Environment Department and whose tasks also involved working at Ministry of Defence properties . |
| 2 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 3 | ‘ The man who drilled for the test said it was among the hardest block he 'd ever seen . |
| 4 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 5 | ‘ Who 's the man they arrested for the throat-slitting ? ’ |
| 6 | How much of this delightfully frank list of requirements the Earl passed on to the man he approached for the job of chairman , the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark ( Winchester and Oxford ) , is not recorded . |
| 7 | A highly publicised press conference launched his return match with the man he defeated for the world title in 1972 , Boris Spassky . |
| 8 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |