Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 37-YEAR-OLD ex-UDR man who admitted to Belfast Crown Court he kept guns and bomb-making equipment for a ‘ Doomsday situation ’ has been jailed for seven years . |
| 2 | A man who stabbed to death his lover 's ex-husband in a court waiting room has had his sentence halved . |
| 3 | The man who Went to War |
| 4 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 5 | One man who came to Aswan at the Queens request , was a youthful-looking Frenchman with a shock of curly hair and a slightly puzzled expression behind his glasses . |
| 6 | So for a while , the President of the United States effectively had world power , there was no other power in the world who could stand up to the U S , er , after , after , World War One for one argument anyway , and I think Freud 's er , defence disposition would be , Woodrow Wilson was the man who came to Europe , saying he would bring a just peace for all , and went away leaving a total mess , and , and , Freud 's er argument in his book is , told us was , well , the mess er , was really Wilson 's own doing , and if it was his doing , what was it in his character that allowed him to er , si to on some Lloyd George , who bullied him into getting most of what they wanted . |
| 7 | Another highly influential bureaucrat , Charles Powell , was a fast-rising Foreign Office man who came to Margaret Thatcher 's notice when part of the team negotiating independence for Zimbabwe . |
| 8 | His officials were talking about " the man who came to dinner " and making it clear that he would just have to go before the Islamic summit that was scheduled to meet in Morocco in April . |
| 9 | The Shah was the man who came to dinner … |
| 10 | Rodd was the man who brought to Britain 's attention the existence of the Children 's Film Foundation , a body never heard of before or since . |
| 11 | Candy Clarke with the man who fell to earth . |
| 12 | He was fascinated by horses — so fascinated that he came to be called ‘ The Man who Loved to Draw Horses , ’ although he could and did draw a wide range of other domestic animals . |
| 13 | He seemed quite a different man from the one she had met the other day across Mr. Crowther 's desk , quite different from the man who talked to Jenny this afternoon . |
| 14 | A HARD-UP Middlesbrough man who travelled to London in search of work but ended up plastering sex-for-sale stickers in the capital 's call-boxes to raise some quick cash , was going straight back to his parents as soon as he could , Marylebone Magistreates Court heard . |
| 15 | A MAN who fled to Australia to avoid a court appearance eleven years ago has come home only to be locked up . |
| 16 | The foregoing examples are taken from documents written by uneducated men who committed to paper , as best they could , what they thought they had heard , or spellings they believed appropriate . |
| 17 | One of the men who came to Bogle 's was a young man called Mr Seeders . |
| 18 | ‘ The men who went to Rome ? ’ |
| 19 | Many such photos were taken in 1918 and kept by wives , girlfriends and lovers as mementoes of the men who went to Flanders . |
| 20 | As a book on the history of men who went to war , it takes up Pieri 's challenge , and meets it handsomely . |
| 21 | TWO Sunderland men who went to York for a shoplifting expedition escaped a jail sentence yesterday . |
| 22 | men who proposed to Jane . |
| 23 | All the men who worked to shovel radioactive waste off the roof of the reactor , he has told British viewers on Thames Television 's ‘ This Week ’ programme , are probably dead or dying . |
| 24 | Most of the other peasants were poor , but almost as deferential to the Soviet as the old men who bowed to Yakovlev along the road . |
| 25 | Another revealed that the last of the Callanish eagles was gone for ‘ that place too has been taken over by Men who put to death what eagles they find . |