Example sentences of "man [Wh det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This story involves a youth hostel in the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man whose narrow-gauge railway has brought pleasure and fascination to many people either as holiday makers or railway enthusiasts since the 1870s . |
| 2 | Mr Wormwood was a small ratty-looking man whose front teeth stuck out underneath a thin ratty moustache . |
| 3 | They showed a young man whose swollen back was a mass of cigarette burns and bruises . |
| 4 | It was increasingly difficult to appeal to the working man whose vote might put the party back into power without antagonizing the wealthy man whose financial assistance was crucial . |
| 5 | He was a man whose personal life , though occasionally exigent , never became a siren song . |
| 6 | MR JEREMY Beadle is a law-abiding family man whose personal habits are beyond reproach . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't go to pubs any more , ’ says the man whose well-publicised scrapes on the road to better behaviour meant that the journey from the penalty box to the witness box was not unfamiliar . |
| 8 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 9 | The Cement Garden , by contrast , seems entirely professional in its execution , the work of a young man whose private demons , however unruly , have been successfully harnessed to a career . |
| 10 | Like many religious folk who have gone into politics , he seems to be two people , a man whose private persona is bafflingly at odds with his public . |
| 11 | That somebody else was Stanley Kubrick , the young director Kirk had worked with a couple of years earlier on Paths of Glory and a man whose greatest success ( 2001 : A Space Odyssey ) and biggest disaster ( Barry Lyndon ) were the result of his mammoth ego . |
| 12 | The traveller , we now discover , is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach . |
| 13 | The ability to predict where hostilities were likely to occur , in what countries , under whose jurisdiction , was paramount to a man whose professional abilities lay in being a practising soldier . |
| 14 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 15 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 16 | A man whose late father was a subscriber sent me the Electrophone programme for the month of May 1924 . |
| 17 | This , for a man whose entire working life had been devoted to making it big in the movies , came as a depressing , frustrating fact as he surveyed his position that year . |
| 18 | Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill . |
| 19 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 20 | Tait yawned into a white hand , the well-disguised yawn of a man whose only knowledge of torture was confined to that inflicted by sitting through committees . |
| 21 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 22 | He stopped her from going visiting in the town , and whenever Daniel Marsh was near Nahum became angry , taking it out on the poor , innocent man whose only role in life was to serve . |
| 23 | The Republicans , confident of victory after their success in 1946 , chose as candidate Governor Thomas Dewey of New York , a moderate man whose only disadvantage was his previous failure to win against Roosevelt in 1944 . |
| 24 | ‘ So we have to hand over the reins of Chester 's to a man whose only interest is money for money 's sake ? ’ she persisted in a low , intense voice , ‘ when anyone can see all the company needs is a re-think of direction , a bit of diversification … ’ |
| 25 | She was swamped by a wave of impotent anger at and violent dislike for the man whose dogged persistence bordered on persecution . |
| 26 | Coleridge 's outstanding abilities remained quite unsuspected at Christ 's Hospital until they came to the attention of the Upper Grammar School master , the Revd James Boyer , a man whose great gifts as a teacher were only exceeded by his sadistically violent temper . |
| 27 | I regard this as an appropriate position for a man whose cool temperament and disdain for most of humanity I found chilling after two or three years study . |
| 28 | She was reduced to saying something — anything — rather than at this moment contemplate a trip to Bruges with a man whose mere offer of a lift home had shattered her poise so completely . |
| 29 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
| 30 | Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him . |