Example sentences of "man who have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both looked up to see a short , wiry little man who had been table-hopping beaming down at them . |
| 2 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 3 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 4 | This was a middle-aged man who had been involved in a road accident after which he suffered from headaches , difficulty in walking , and a total lack of sleep . |
| 5 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 6 | She stood back , still holding his hands and saw tears appear in the eyes of the old man who had been more of a Father to her than her own Father . |
| 7 | Yet , faced with the harsh fact that saving will benefit neither himself nor his family and frugality be of profit to none of his prospective beneficiaries , a rich man who has been generous in life will be encouraged to a prodigal standard of living . |
| 8 | A MAN who has been blind since birth has written a book of poems with the aid of a talking computer . |
| 9 | ‘ To a man who has been accustomed to obtain credit from those who have supplied him with goods ’ , wrote Thomas Farrow in The Money-Lender Unmasked ( 1895 ) , |
| 10 | You 've landed yourself with a man who 's been wise to women 's performances since the age of fourteen . |
| 11 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 12 | Men who had been unsuccessful in the search for a day 's work drifted into the dining rooms to pass the time away and many sat there on the bench seats , grateful for the warmth and a friendly chat . |
| 13 | Men who had been seasonal workers formerly began talking of going stone-gathering and ditching during the winter . |
| 14 | Increasingly such flats have come to be part of a system of ‘ less eligibility ’ for those households whose actual behaviour is judged not to conform to the domestic ideal : women single parents dependent on state benefits , families with housewives who are defined as ‘ poor ’ housekeepers by other women employed by the local authority to make such judgements ( Ungerson , 1971 ) , families headed by men who have been unemployed for years , and single women ( Austerberry and Watson , 1983 ) . |