Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The RUC have now issued a description of the man who had black hair , balding at the front and sides , and was wearing glasses . |
2 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
3 | Unlike Dönitz , he was a highly cultivated man who had much charm , spoke fluent , conversational English and was quite at home with the microphone . |
4 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
5 | This from a man who had little interest in the event when he went up to Magdalene College last autumn to study transport and marketing — and the Boat Race is a triumph of both these days . |
6 | Like every man who had direct contact with the Chairman , Dr Tariq had a most sincere fear of his master . |
7 | Eventually he met a rather feckless man who had seven children . |
8 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |
9 | A rich man who had three loves — women , books , and the satisfaction of having made an unexpectedly canny deal , in that order . |
10 | Ward 's payment was agreed with Saunders ‘ a man who had huge authority in that company because he had picked it up by the scruff of the neck and transformed it . ’ |
11 | Despite these hints , it is more likely that those magnates of Childebert who encouraged Gundovald in 582 were men who had strong reservations about the king and his mother . |
12 | Perhaps these really were ‘ men who had high purposes ’ , as North described McFarlane and Poindexter , men who ‘ were trying their level best to make this world a better place . ’ |