Example sentences of "man who [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinct and an adolescence spent in observation rather than practice told her this was the kind of man who ate little girls like Suzie for breakfast . |
| 2 | GRAHAM GOOCH , the man who dragged English Test cricket out of its stupor , smiles from the dust jacket , his face symbolically dripping sweat . |
| 3 | Collins says of Wilkinson : ‘ Any man who wins two championships in three years must be good — he certainly ca n't be bad ! ’ |
| 4 | well can you explain please as the man who devised these charges and assessed them and work them out how by some process of reason anybody reading that sentence gets the clue that when it says management charges will rise at a rate below the level of inflation , it refers to one pound fifty nine , how can you understand that ? |
| 5 | A TRANMERE man who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little or nothing about it because of the quantity of drink he had consumed . |
| 6 | A MAN who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little about it because of the amount of drink he had consumed . |
| 7 | ‘ Love , ’ he pronounced , with the world-weary wisdom of a man who wore dark glasses after sundown and owned at least three psychedelic ties , ‘ love is farting in bed with someone who does n't mind . ’ |
| 8 | Vancouver had its share of unusual ‘ characters ’ one of these being ‘ Professor ’ Francis , a tall rather unkempt and unshaven man who spent many hours in the CBC studio lobby watching the rehearsals or broadcasts through the plate glass windows . |
| 9 | The innocent man who spent two years in an Indian jail . |
| 10 | As a man who spent 17 years in local government I have a sense of shame that yet again there has to be another attempt to reform local government finance , due to the incompetence , extravagance and doctrinaire opposition to competitive tendering of Labour councils . |
| 11 | ‘ Are n't you the young man who spent some weeks with the research unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases ? ’ |
| 12 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 13 | Wilson , a man who combined high ideals with a considerable obstinacy and self-righteousness , was convinced that the opposition must be overcome and refused to compromise on details . |
| 14 | A man who grew 1,659 cannabis plants said he was a ‘ heavy smoker ’ and claimed that they were all for his own use . |
| 15 | Death of man who saw charred body of Hitler |
| 16 | For the man who owns this land , watching what used to be a wheat field turned into a race track has been an eye opener … although he 's well aware of the problems the sport can cause . |
| 17 | WHEN police swooped on the Pan Africanist Congress on May 25th , arresting 70 of its members , including seven members of its national executive , the man who suffered most embarrassment was Roelf Meyer . |
| 18 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |
| 19 | The RUC have now issued a description of the man who had black hair , balding at the front and sides , and was wearing glasses . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Unlike Dönitz , he was a highly cultivated man who had much charm , spoke fluent , conversational English and was quite at home with the microphone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Like every man who had direct contact with the Chairman , Dr Tariq had a most sincere fear of his master . |
| 25 | Eventually he met a rather feckless man who had seven children . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A rich man who had three loves — women , books , and the satisfaction of having made an unexpectedly canny deal , in that order . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | The judge took a dim view of all this and told Howard , ‘ You are a man who drinks vast quantities every night . |
| 30 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |