Example sentences of "man who [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Matthew : Matthew makes Judas out to be a greedy man who asked for money . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's typical of Rex really that he should blame the poor man who died for all his troubles . |
| 6 | you might remember him from Wembley as the man who levelled for Norway against England with that wonderful shot . |
| 7 | ‘ What , the man who sued for peace ? |
| 8 | Police believe they 've identified the man who arranged for him to smuggle the drug and that he 's currently carrying out his business abroad . |
| 9 | And look at her … turning soft with admiration for a man who cared for nothing but his ambition . |
| 10 | But she had a strange temperament and we Were told by one man who worked for John Sayer and had helped to break her in that she was n't right in the head . |
| 11 | The Crown lawyer said the court would hear that the probable target was a man who worked for the Environment Department and whose tasks also involved working at Ministry of Defence properties . |
| 12 | Mr Mafouz , a big , jolly man who worked for a travel agent , was compiling a dossier on him . |
| 13 | So what you say about the rights of fathers is also about who is the ‘ real ’ father — the biological father or the man who cares for the child ? |
| 14 | Duty to every man who works for us . |
| 15 | The papers bristled with tributes to ‘ a man who stood for tradition and dignity in a business that has recently been rocked by scandal and corruption ’ . |
| 16 | His was not the look of a man who vacationed for three and a half months in a place where bird-watching was high on the entertainment list . |
| 17 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 18 | The fanciful style of the gaol might be explained by the fact that the man who paid for it , Lord Cobham , was also the man who had the biggest collection of follies in the country in the grounds of his nearby estate , Stowe , including a gothic folly . |
| 19 | ‘ The man who drilled for the test said it was among the hardest block he 'd ever seen . |
| 20 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 21 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 22 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 23 | The Brut blames the Despensers for this measure , but the king was able to raise almost 7,000 men who served for four weeks at their vills ' expense . |
| 24 | Holly took his tray and walked briskly back along the line of men who waited for their food . |
| 25 | IN THE world of pharmaceuticals it is not only marketing men who go for the hard sell . |
| 26 | Such mercenaries were specialist fighters , owing no firm allegiance , men who fought for pay and what they could get out of war . |
| 27 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 28 | In an article entitled ‘ The men who fall for their computers ’ Jane McLoughlin examined this new phenomenon . |
| 29 | Black men and white men who care for the country , and for their children 's future , are working at it . |
| 30 | For comparison none of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted for HIV , three out of 177 ( 2% ) drug users negative for HIV , and 10 out of 112 ( 9% ) drug users positive for HIV reported bacterial pneumonia . |