Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could not understand a man who chose privacy rather than the comfort of comradeship and shared pleasures ; who read books on mathematics and astronomy rather than drink in the mess with his fellow-officers . |
| 2 | He forbids divorce , but implicitly accepts that it is a man who initiates divorce , ‘ the man who divorces his wife … |
| 3 | Fresh hope … new lead in hunt for man who attacked pensioner in her own home . |
| 4 | In the General Prologue portrait of the Reeve — a portrayal which leans heavily on conventional attitudes of hostility towards the lords ' men , the peasant officials amongst the peasants , in medieval English satire — the Reeve is presented as a man who provokes suspicion and fear : and as a man who , by being identifiable as one of a type rather than an individual , attracts the prejudices associated with that type . |
| 5 | Life for man who murdered watchman |
| 6 | He is well known as the man who revamped Labour 's image with the Red Rose campaign in the 1987 General Election . |
| 7 | The magnificent lounge red leather arm chairs , chandeliers , beams , table lamps is named in memory of Bill Oxenham , a remarkable man who combined engine driving at Blackhall pit with being the only Tory councillor in Horden 's history . |
| 8 | ‘ The man who takes offence at it is a fool indeed . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Ledingham is married to a man who takes care of everything . |
| 10 | I 'd like to show a civilised man who turns barbarian , and a barbarian who becomes a civilised man — to develop that contrast between two worlds that end up merging … |
| 11 | A sad event in 1926 was the death of Tommy Gould , the Caddie Master , thoughtfully recorded in the Standard ‘ as a man who saw life ’ . |
| 12 | He remembered him as ‘ a brown bagger ’ , that is a man who to save money brought a sandwich lunch in a brown bag rather than waste time and money eating in the mess . |
| 13 | One case report has described a 38 year old homosexual man who developed fever , diarrhoea , and weight loss and in whom radiography showed terminal ileilitis . |
| 14 | There is no doubting the substantial culpability of the person who embarks on a course of conduct knowing that there is a risk of death to another ( e.g. the man who administered chloroform in Pike ) , and the person who foresees the risk of really serious harm to another from the course of conduct being pursued . |
| 15 | I 'm devastated … a man who suffered brain damage loses his fight for compensation . |
| 16 | A MAN who reaped revenge for an alleged stabbing four years ago was yesterday jailed for two years . |
| 17 | A man who had superglue squirted in his face by muggers may have lost the sight of one eye . |
| 18 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 19 | The principle of the old law was that the rich man who had property to pay his creditors was allowed to spend it comfortably in The Fleet or Marshalsea . |
| 20 | The man who talks equality in this respect is not a Socialist ; he is simply crazy and beyond hope " . |
| 21 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 22 | The bulk of Wayne 's greatest films , from The Searchers ( 1953 ) through The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1963 ) to The Shootist ( 1975 ) , cast him as the Ringo Kid grown old and useless , vanishing at the fade-out into desert obscurity , drunken oblivion or cancerous death . |
| 23 | THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE |
| 24 | Suzi with Alfred , who although ancient was still an entertaining man who took pleasure — and patience — in making a pretty girl enjoy her dinner . |
| 25 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |
| 26 | THE man who took office as President of Panama early yesterday morning was popularly elected last spring but had to wait more than six months before being thrust into power by the United States . |
| 27 | I had met a man who made sense to me even though he was forty-six and I was fifteen . |
| 28 | Welcoming the Rangers ace back into the international fold after almost four years in the wilderness , manager Taylor quickly reassured Arsenal star Ian Wright , the man who made way for him . |
| 29 | He went home with a man who made love to him very violently on the living room floor , wanting to fuck Boy face down on the floor , and straight away , without any kissing ; the floor was covered with scraps of glittering sequined fabrics . |
| 30 | A well-known story tells of a handsome young man who made love to a village girl on a river bank before they dozed together in the sun ; as she combed his hair she found weeds and shells , thus identifying the dreaded creature . |