Example sentences of "man who [vb past] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ The man who drilled for the test said it was among the hardest block he 'd ever seen . |
| 18 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Holly took his tray and walked briskly back along the line of men who waited for their food . |
| 21 | Such mercenaries were specialist fighters , owing no firm allegiance , men who fought for pay and what they could get out of war . |
| 22 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |