Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A man who also honoured God , but more important than that he was a near kinsman of Ruth , or ra or rather Naomi rather , and there also of Ruth because of Ruth 's late husband . |
2 | The Committee is also Ulster owned and his trainer is the man who also saddled Rhythm Section , Ulster exile Homer Scott who now operates from Kildare . |
3 | In his own chamber , the Lord Bruce showed these feelings but he was a practical man who simply believed power should be grasped and wielded . |
4 | Here was a man who desperately needed Jesus ! |
5 | The only man who truly understood Plato . |
6 | A magistrate who granted bail to a man who then committed murder has resigned . |
7 | The man who so impressed Jack Nicklaus in last year 's Open struck a four iron to eight feet for a two at the next and added three more birdies . |
8 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
9 | Flute was a mirthless man who often used words like ‘ conception ’ , ‘ subtext ’ , and ‘ seminal ’ , and also ‘ Jarry-esque ’ , which appeared to have something to do with a play called Ubu Roi . |
10 | The man who now approached Wavebreaker was as tall as Rickie Crowninshield , but , where Rickie was attenuated , this man was as broad shouldered and as heavily muscled as a pit bull . |
11 | All the famous Greek philosophers were disdainful of the artisan , the man who merely made things . |
12 | But I 'm trying to track down the man who brutally murdered Sandy , your sister . |
13 | He er what I was just gon na say , he offered his tomb , his burying place to Jesus after he 'd died , it 's not the action of a man who totally rejected Jesus claims to be the Messiah . |
14 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
15 | ‘ I 'm the man who once made love to your mother and made you . ’ |
16 | The European economy was being developed and fertilized in this age by men who regularly undertook journeys of great difficulty , risks of unknown dimensions . |
17 | Four men who allegedly planned demonstrations in December 1989 to commemorate the 1988 flag-raising , were sentenced to terms of between six and 12 years . |
18 | Pressure on land was fairly slack in the south ( most obviously shown by the fact that when holdings were reoccupied they were often taken up by men who already held land , and not by landless men ) , whereas in the east there was no shortage of tenants , and the demand for land was maintained . |
19 | Among them will be three Warrington men who all had transplants at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester . |