Example sentences of "man who have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 2 | For the man who had written the song ‘ My little island girl ’ Lawrence 's blend of the sophisticated with savage sexuality was particularly disturbing . |
| 3 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 4 | The tribunal rules that Barclays discriminated against her by making her retire at 60 , when a man who had joined the bank at the same time could work until 65 . |
| 5 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |
| 6 | Thesiger 's response was typical of the man who had endured the searing heat , tongue-swelling thirst and bitter , skin-cracking cold of the desert : ‘ God , you must be a couple of pansies ’ , he said . |
| 7 | The man who had led the procession stepped forward and sprinkled the coffin with spiced rum . |
| 8 | Clearly , the man who had overthrown the Somoza dictatorship ten years earlier , who first killed a man when he was in his mid-teens , and who spent seven years in jail , was getting advice from a higher source . |
| 9 | In the Club section was a tall and clean-cut young man who had made the flight after connecting from Houston . |
| 10 | Nothing would suggest the man who had collected the material for Psychopathia Sexualis . |
| 11 | The man who had run the neighbouring Radio Clyde in Glasgow moved south to London 's Capital Radio . |
| 12 | They also included one unusual name : Donald Swift-Hook , the man who had run the CEGB 's own research effort into wind power for eight years , agreed to give his views on our behalf . |
| 13 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 14 | The Falangist leader , Hedilla , met with a group of Alphonsine monarchists which included José María de Areilza , erstwhile right-wing parliamentary candidate for Bilbao , clandestine messenger between some of the military conspirators and nephew of the man who had propitiated the contact between Consul Cavaletti and the Basque president , Aguirre . |
| 15 | J. B. Priestley recognised this in the extract chosen by Mr Hamilton from The Good Companions : ‘ … it [ Bruddersford United AFC ] offered you more than a shilling's-worth of material for talk during the rest of the week , a man who had missed the last home match of t'United had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford . ’ |
| 16 | And topped up again to pay for the repair of the flat roof over the kitchen , and the man who had done the work should have been prosecuted for fraud . |
| 17 | He was , after all , a man who had seen the enemy and come home to tell the tale . |
| 18 | In reality , it is run by a Dr Lincoln Adams , a man who had seen the TK potential in all of these children . |
| 19 | Men jumped on to the bank to secure it , and the man who had given the orders leapt overboard with a silver plash , two others behind him . |
| 20 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 21 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 22 | Radio Cleveland broadcaster Alan Wright said he was overwhelmed by the response when he raised the case of a Redcar man who had to call the police to get rid of Sure Style salesmen . |
| 23 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
| 24 | Then Ruth saw that he deliberately gave the man who had asked the question only half the bacon ration he was entitled to . |
| 25 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 26 | They were hardly , he thought , the shoes you 'd expect to find on a man who had spent the day in London unless he had walked in the parks or along the towpath of the canal . |
| 27 | From the persuasive pen of Committee member Richard Hoggart , himself a working class man who had seized the opportunities of formal education , the critique flowed power-filly . |
| 28 | It was built as a monument to Thomas Coats , the man who had established the family 's cotton thread empire . |
| 29 | Holly knew the man who had climbed the wire would be dead before the concert was finished . |
| 30 | Louise was equally anxious to see this man who had had the power to persuade her niece to go against her upbringing and character and behave so recklessly after such a brief acquaintance . |