Example sentences of "man who [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reagan 's staff had the advantage of a candidate responsive to direction , a man who knew about the importance of good camera angles and could read from a teleprompter with the effortless ease of a trained , accomplished communicator . |
| 2 | Sitting quietly among his family was a man who knew of the ‘ old ’ Rendcomb only too well . |
| 3 | At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday a jury decided that a farm labourer , William Shepherd , 19 , of Cherrywood Drive , Beith , was the man who ran from the crowd to deliver the blow . |
| 4 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 5 | In this way , although it could not have considered the fact , it was very like the man who waited in the shadows of its home territory . |
| 6 | Those who walked the perimeter path went behind him , and no one spoke to the man who gazed at the wall that held him . |
| 7 | In Brixton he interviewed yet another man who admitted to the murder but was swiftly cleared . |
| 8 | It 's nearly always a woman who talks about house plants ; it 's nearly always a man who talks about the real vegetable garden and has the gnarled fingers . |
| 9 | ‘ A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea . |
| 10 | The third example is a young man who falls into the rare category of those who pose a serious threat to public safety , a threat which in some instances exists for only weeks or months , although occasionally a person may remain potentially dangerous for some years . |
| 11 | His findings include a confession from a man who shot at the UN plane minutes before it crashed . |
| 12 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 13 | The second man who died in the fire was leading fire fighter John Davis , from Leominster , a part-timer for 13 years , also married with 2 children . |
| 14 | A 60-year-old south Armagh man who died in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast two days after falling from a ladder in the yard at his home was buried yesterday . |
| 15 | A CLEVELAND man who died in the North Sea helicopter tragedy last weekend has been formally identified . |
| 16 | However , I want to ask the name of the man who walked over the child . ’ |
| 17 | Perfect for campaigning with , perfect for posters , TV , films and interviews , ’ said Bush a tall , silver-haired man who speaks in the burr of his native Wiltshire in England 's West Country . |
| 18 | Did you hear about the man who went to the fancy dress party as a bone ? |
| 19 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 20 | I bought a bottle of something special from a man who came to the door . |
| 21 | ‘ Mother bought it from a man who came to the door to sell things . |
| 22 | These images paled before the man who came through the archway that led to the deeper mysteries of the church . |
| 23 | It was from here , I reflected , looking through the windows at a small scattered town , that the despatcher had spoken to George and me the previous evening : and while I watched , George appeared outside and was met by a man who came from the station . |
| 24 | I was married to Bernard Parkin for fifteen years , a man who came from the lower middle class , but identified quite violently , for a number of years , with the workers . |
| 25 | Enter his wife , and Oswald Moseley still a Labour man who laid into the Tory government before 1,500 people in Shildon Hippodrome . |
| 26 | However , looking at the archetype of the Weaving Mother operating in the general human domain , we can see the same principle operating in , for instance , the teaching systems of spiritual and esoteric traditions , where it may just as easily be the man who calls upon the powers of binding . |
| 27 | And he told him how to listen to God — how any man who listens in the spirit of ‘ Not my will , but God 's ’ can receive definite , accurate direction and instruction . |
| 28 | Afterwards we have a pint in the welcoming pub , where there 's a poem on the wall about telling a man who boozes by the company he chooses . |
| 29 | And Keynes was , after all , a Treasury man who believed in the value of fiscal control and more or less balanced budgets over the medium term . |
| 30 | This man who believed in the sanctity of life , its life , not hers . |