Example sentences of "man who [vb past] [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 | His findings include a confession from a man who shot at the UN plane minutes before it crashed . |
9 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | A CLEVELAND man who died in the North Sea helicopter tragedy last weekend has been formally identified . |
13 | However , I want to ask the name of the man who walked over the child . ’ |
14 | Did you hear about the man who went to the fancy dress party as a bone ? |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I bought a bottle of something special from a man who came to the door . |
17 | ‘ Mother bought it from a man who came to the door to sell things . |
18 | These images paled before the man who came through the archway that led to the deeper mysteries of the church . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Enter his wife , and Oswald Moseley still a Labour man who laid into the Tory government before 1,500 people in Shildon Hippodrome . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | This man who believed in the sanctity of life , its life , not hers . |
24 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
25 | In an epistemological parable , ‘ The Man who looked into the Future ’ , Allen Wheelis describes a man 's attempts to escape from the fluidity of the present and imprint value on his life . |
26 | It was for the man who looked after the sewage outfall ; he had to be here to open the sluice whenever the tide was right . |
27 | He says the real Shakespeare was no more than the man who looked after the horses and the costumes . |
28 | A section of the hardboard wall was tugged aside , and Chrissie glimpsed the pale , unshaven features of the man who lived in the concealed room . |
29 | Police issued the photofit of a man who burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter . |
30 | But the man who got into the front seat was Keith Hanger , an escaped prisoner wanted in connection with a murder . |