Example sentences of "man who [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Mormon FBI man who dropped to his knees at the roadside began to pray . |
| 2 | Gunner Howerd , the man who began in camp concerts and became the king of camp . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sitting quietly among his family was a man who knew of the ‘ old ’ Rendcomb only too well . |
| 6 | He was fond of the man who fretted beside him , and a touch impatient with him too . |
| 7 | A lot of people seem to refer to Jesus as a good man who lived a long time ago ; a man who taught about God and who became ‘ Son of God ’ by his resurrection . |
| 8 | The images are vivid : an unmarried mother who lives off welfare cheques ; a young man who drifts from girlfriend to girlfriend , selling drugs to get by . |
| 9 | The breeze carried her exclamation to the man who strode towards her . |
| 10 | Harry 's weight swung him round but did not tear him from his hold , and it was the boy and not the man who hung for a long , palpitating moment suspended on the edge of the drop . |
| 11 | Matthew : Matthew makes Judas out to be a greedy man who asked for money . |
| 12 | The man who hopes to be Chancellor next week can not surely be preparing a leap in the dark . |
| 13 | The man who hopes to be the next Nigel Mansell . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now it is the age of fulfilled man who takes in all the Trinity and becomes one with them . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's a lovely man who deserves to be loved , ’ she said . |
| 17 | A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip . |
| 18 | His book is the testimony of a disillusioned man who turns with some bitterness on his former colleagues . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 23 | Those who walked the perimeter path went behind him , and no one spoke to the man who gazed at the wall that held him . |
| 24 | A tall man who gazed about him as if not yet intimidated by what he saw . |
| 25 | You will probably have to see events through the eyes of one or more detectives , of a scene-of-the-crime officer , of various laboratory experts and of the man who sits in his office at headquarters and directs the operation . |
| 26 | There was no Madame Eglantine , only a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie , took the package and said he would hand it over to the lady next time she visited the place . |
| 27 | ‘ And yet there must have been some man who wished to . |
| 28 | Her husband was a wealthy man who belonged to a family that owned a successful printing and publishing business , and the parties had enjoyed a comfortable life-style during the marriage . |
| 29 | This was not always so : in Senior ( 1899 ) a man who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar People refused to call a doctor to his child , who subsequently died ; he was held guilty of manslaughter on the ground that he had committed an unlawful act ( wilful neglect of the child ) which caused death . |
| 30 | An accountant responded to the appeal , published in the Standard on Tuesday , for information about the man who lunched with MacQuillan at the Black Friar . |