Example sentences of "which [modal v] [vb infin] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were several motives which might bring a man to commit himself to a fairly long period ( eight years in France from 1762 onwards ) of military service . |
| 2 | But she had known that , while she looked back in wonder across a million years , his mind on the minute scrape of putty from the heel of the suspect 's shoe , the trace which might prove a man was a rapist or a murderer . |
| 3 | Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets . |
| 4 | Corbett could not prove that but he recognised the kind of man who could concoct cunning elixirs which could kill a man or woman and leave no trace . |
| 5 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 6 | The fells around Baldersdale are dangerous places , full of hidden ghylls — deep water holes — and moss bogs which can swallow a man whole . |
| 7 | You 've no doubt heard of these helmets which can feed a man 's senses a crudely simulated universe-a cartoon universe — with which he can interact physically ; he rotates , it rotates ; he hears a sound , he turns towards it , the source is where it should be , so on and so forth . |
| 8 | She does things with neroli and ylang ylang which can turn a man 's knees to water … ’ |
| 9 | There are said to be some mystic rivers one drop of which can steal a man 's life away . |