Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] have just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalglish wore the demeanour of a man who had just discovered the cat had been sick in his slippers . |
| 2 | A local builder , probably the same man who had just built the beautiful house of Newton Ferrers , created this simple masterpiece in the local sea-grey basaltic stone , mixed with silvery granite from the moor up over the hill to the north . |
| 3 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 4 | Breeze turned to glance at the man who had just entered the shop , and saw that it was Roger Kenyon . |
| 5 | Certainly the Man who had just opened the door of Woil 's cage had his attention distracted by the shout . |
| 6 | On my next visit to Southampton I tried in vain for a chat with the young man who had just won a match for Hampshire and deserved to bask in a discreet amount of praise . |
| 7 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 8 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 9 | Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life ? |
| 10 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 11 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 12 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 13 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 14 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 15 | There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors . |
| 16 | Genet uses the blacks , the way a man who has just emptied his revolver reaches for the knife at his side ’ ( ‘ The Revenge of Jean Genet ’ , 175 ) . |
| 17 | Such is the charisma of a man who has just had seven weeks off following an operation on an old knee injury and has played only two tournaments . |
| 18 | Robyn turns to face a man who has just entered the shop : tall , heavily built , with bushy sideboards and moustache , a sheepskin coat open over his three-piece suit . |
| 19 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 20 | A reasonable employer would not , for example , be entitled to instruct a man who has just resumed work following a major heart attack to undertake immediately a long and arduous period of foreign travel . |
| 21 | South Africa have named for the same job , not a professional journalist , but Dr. Nick Labuschagne , a man who has just been ousted as President of the Natal Rugby Union . |
| 22 | We speak here of a man who has just completed a season in which he won four USPGA Tour events and more than $1,000,000 to finish second on the money list behind Greg Norman . |
| 23 | Holmes looked like a man who has just won an important game . |
| 24 | He looked like a man who has just stepped into an empty lift-shaft . |
| 25 | When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . |
| 26 | ‘ A neurotic , ’ he said , ‘ is a man who 's just worked out what 's going on . ’ |
| 27 | says the man who 's just arrived ; |
| 28 | You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’ |
| 29 | The man who 's just won an election usually thinks things have gone from to better and the man who 's lost it thinks they have gone from bad to worse . |
| 30 | These were men who had just finished fighting a global war — a war which , it must be remembered , Britain had won — and global habits of mind naturally persisted . |