Example sentences of "man who [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or take the man who threatens a woman that unless she submits to intercourse , he will drive to the next town 50 miles away , buy a gun and return and shoot her and her children . |
| 2 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 3 | A man who mixes a cocktail of vitamins and sleeping pills to knock out Little Liz 's predecessor after she had gone off her oats and then crawls around under the bedclothes with a speculum and a flashlight . |
| 4 | Apple Blossom Afternoon is the funny and moving story of an ordinary man who takes a gamble with extraordinary results . |
| 5 | Bill Biddlecomb is the man who deserves a name check for organising the skating side of things there . |
| 6 | Like any man who turns a grudge into a crusade , Joyce 's alienation from reality grew more pitiful . |
| 7 | The man who divides a nation between adoration and anger , but an all-time great fly-half who , at 34 , can still control a game — indeed , turn it on its head . |
| 8 | Solicitors are also able to advise a man who denies a mother 's claim that he is the child 's father . |
| 9 | Perfect for the man who wants a change from white . |
| 10 | You ask a man who has a bit more experience and plenty of common sense ad he 'll say to you , ‘ Get the lad in , bring him home to his parents and the father will give him a clip round the ear . ’ |
| 11 | The King 's Government has to be carried on and I think that you are the only man who has a chance of doing this successfully . |
| 12 | ‘ Any man who has a daughter would understand how he feels . |
| 13 | You meet a man who has a catfish named after him . |
| 14 | The mayor , Tryphonas Gotsis , assembles a group of colleagues and friends — the head of the pistachio-growers ' association , a man who has a hotel in Ayia Marina , a trio of town notables . |
| 15 | The man who has a heart like Khidar , who quaffed the water of life of love , to such a one the most limpid fountains are nothing worth . |
| 16 | Only that intelligent people can surely accept that a man who has a job like mine can accidentally forget that his wife is giving a dinner party without immediately assuming his lapse is due to lack of concern for her . ’ |
| 17 | A man who has a job that could possibly have brought him into contact with the victims , though I do n't think so myself . |
| 18 | I am would claim now for a man who has a disability claim . |
| 19 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
| 20 | This ruling was reviewed , as a point of law , by the Queen 's Bench of the High Court , which decided that a man who publishes a book in circumstances where he must reasonably know that it is obscene commits an offence , even if his motive is pure . |
| 21 | A sick man who values a hi-fi set more than a bottle of medicine that will cure him needs to be made aware of the values involved . |
| 22 | As he has said ‘ the man who throws a race is a crook for life ’ , it is fair to guess that Melges ' ’ day off ’ was for no other reason than that he wanted no part of any manipulation of points . |
| 23 | The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . " |
| 24 | Another ambition has been financial reward , and it is a lucky man who escapes a conversation with Jackie without being reminded of his various positions , his bankers , his lawyers , his accountants and his courtiers . |
| 25 | The man who gives a boat party knows in his heart that his friends like his yacht more than they like him : he is lonely and restless in their company . |
| 26 | a man who runs a yard where there are no firm rules … no strict training techniques … the only order of the day is be happy … laugh and smile … it 's a wonderful world |
| 27 | ‘ You look like the sort of man who enjoys a challenge . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ As you said , I look like the sort of man who enjoys a challenge . ’ |