Example sentences of "man who [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Mormon FBI man who dropped to his knees at the roadside began to pray . |
| 2 | The man who hopes to be Chancellor next week can not surely be preparing a leap in the dark . |
| 3 | The man who hopes to be the next Nigel Mansell . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's a lovely man who deserves to be loved , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ And yet there must have been some man who wished to . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | NATIONAL fingerprint records are being checked in a bid to identify a man who plunged to his death from a bridge . |
| 9 | Not , she told herself , that she was used to it , but having just married a man who had to be a millionaire several times over … |
| 10 | In Brixton he interviewed yet another man who admitted to the murder but was swiftly cleared . |
| 11 | A 37-YEAR-OLD ex-UDR man who admitted to Belfast Crown Court he kept guns and bomb-making equipment for a ‘ Doomsday situation ’ has been jailed for seven years . |
| 12 | A man who stabbed to death his lover 's ex-husband in a court waiting room has had his sentence halved . |
| 13 | Early in 1930 Ras Gugsa Wale , the former husband of the Empress marched south with his army , calling on the country to rise and overthrow the man who sought to corrupt their religion and , with his modern innovations , destroy their ancient heritage . |
| 14 | The man who Went to War |
| 15 | Did you hear about the man who went to the fancy dress party as a bone ? |
| 16 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 17 | Another highly influential bureaucrat , Charles Powell , was a fast-rising Foreign Office man who came to Margaret Thatcher 's notice when part of the team negotiating independence for Zimbabwe . |
| 18 | ‘ It was when the friend of the family , Donald Templeton , the trusted and valued doctor who attended both Farr and his wife , came to call that the plans of the man who came to be known as the Wimbledon poisoner came badly unstuck . |
| 19 | When I was a child , there was a man who came to our chapel in an invalid chair . |
| 20 | I bought a bottle of something special from a man who came to the door . |
| 21 | ‘ Mother bought it from a man who came to the door to sell things . |
| 22 | One man who came to Aswan at the Queens request , was a youthful-looking Frenchman with a shock of curly hair and a slightly puzzled expression behind his glasses . |
| 23 | His officials were talking about " the man who came to dinner " and making it clear that he would just have to go before the Islamic summit that was scheduled to meet in Morocco in April . |
| 24 | The Shah was the man who came to dinner … |
| 25 | So for a while , the President of the United States effectively had world power , there was no other power in the world who could stand up to the U S , er , after , after , World War One for one argument anyway , and I think Freud 's er , defence disposition would be , Woodrow Wilson was the man who came to Europe , saying he would bring a just peace for all , and went away leaving a total mess , and , and , Freud 's er argument in his book is , told us was , well , the mess er , was really Wilson 's own doing , and if it was his doing , what was it in his character that allowed him to er , si to on some Lloyd George , who bullied him into getting most of what they wanted . |
| 26 | There was a story he told about the man who came to his flat and said in a gruff voice , ‘ Come on then — let's get on with it then . ’ |
| 27 | His authoritative tone seemed to indicate the latter , giving the impression that here was a man who expected to be obeyed . |
| 28 | But Shakespeare 's manipulation ultimately disrupts Harsnett 's design : ‘ In Shakespeare , the realization that demonic possession is a theatrical imposture leads not to a clarification — the clear-eyed satisfaction of a man who refuses to be gulled — but to a deeper uncertainty , a loss of moorings , in the face of evil . ’ |
| 29 | Rodd was the man who brought to Britain 's attention the existence of the Children 's Film Foundation , a body never heard of before or since . |
| 30 | Then a man who seemed to be in charge said , ‘ We 're going to let you go . |