Example sentences of "man who [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A visiting minister performed the burial service , a man who was lending the chapel a helping hand during the interregnum which came between the departure of Samuel Saunders and the arrival of Thomas Fox Newman . |
| 2 | The man who was owed the money planned to take her two sons as slaves . |
| 3 | Three years later Francis Cleyn , the man who was to design the Hero and Leander tapestries , was chosen as designer and chief weaver to the Mortlake factory . |
| 4 | Even the Arabs in the Ministry of Health office in the hospital had n't really been briefed , and the poor man who was given the job of meeting our needs nearly had a heart attack when I showed him a copy of the list I had sent out to his head office weeks ago . |
| 5 | She paused to introduce Lindsey to the young man who was checking the various monitors and equipment . |
| 6 | Clinton inspected the contents of one of the vats , smiling amiably at the man who was stirring the mass of baked beans . |
| 7 | Also there , Captain Oates , the man who was to make the ultimate sacrifice in a bid to save his colleagues . |
| 8 | ‘ The man who was driving the van got hit on the head . |
| 9 | She turned to watch him leave , experiencing a second shock as she recognised the man who was driving the car that arrived to collect him as one of the pair who had waylaid her in the car park . |
| 10 | Police are now waiting to interview the 25 year old man who was driving the stolen car . |
| 11 | After them , the mill belonged to a Mr Chapman , thought to be the man who was running the nearby Sevilles Mill . |
| 12 | Well I 'd already spoken to the man who was running the course , the lecturer and he told me I could go on it , but his secretary said it was booked . |
| 13 | Thus Jasper 's father might have been the man who was painting the flats and who came in for a cup of tea , or the old lover whom she happened to run into in Denmark Hill , or the neighbour who was moving out of Flat 16 and who came up to say goodbye while his girlfriend was packing their furniture into the rented van . |
| 14 | He stopped above a man who was painting the superstructure of his boat and asked him how far it was to the sea . |
| 15 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 16 | There was a brawl going on in the entrance , and two policemen were clamping handcuffs on a couple of young men who were causing the trouble . |
| 17 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 18 | The club 's pivot was the drama : its master was Leo Lloyd — the second of those men who were to promote the career of so many boys and girls from the Afan valley . |
| 19 | Miss Poraway told the men who were unloading the trestle-tables that she would require a good one , because she ran the book-stall and always had . |
| 20 | When they 'd first re-entered the apartment the place had been crawling with a crowd of men who were mending the air-conditioning , installing a computer and modem to a fresh telephone line , and plugging in the dreaded fax machine . |
| 21 | Simultaneously , two overweight , breathless and slightly tipsy men who were descending the station steps saw the train moving out and broke into a run , during which they managed to overtake half of a 66ft. long Mk. 1 coach . |
| 22 | The two men who were tending the fire under the boiler were Dr'gasians — squat and bald , with decorative tattoos which ran across their shoulders and down inside their tunics . |
| 23 | I would help with the preparation of a meal for all the men who were doing the work . |
| 24 | It prepared the way for the men who were to prepare the way for the Council . |
| 25 | At a musical evening of the Upton Liberal and Radical Association , Nicholson attributed unemployment to the lack of confidence people had in the men who were directing the destiny of the world ( SE 1 February 22 ) . |
| 26 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |