Example sentences of "man who [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its former head , Mr Erich Mielke , for years the man who knew all the secrets and pulled all the strings , is under arrest and facing corruption charges . |
| 2 | A man who knew all the tricks … |
| 3 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 4 | Bob Calder , that ass , was more than willing to accept him as a man who knew all there was to know about women . |
| 5 | well can you explain please as the man who devised these charges and assessed them and work them out how by some process of reason anybody reading that sentence gets the clue that when it says management charges will rise at a rate below the level of inflation , it refers to one pound fifty nine , how can you understand that ? |
| 6 | Vancouver had its share of unusual ‘ characters ’ one of these being ‘ Professor ’ Francis , a tall rather unkempt and unshaven man who spent many hours in the CBC studio lobby watching the rehearsals or broadcasts through the plate glass windows . |
| 7 | ‘ Are n't you the young man who spent some weeks with the research unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases ? ’ |
| 8 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |
| 9 | Neighbours spoke of a quiet man who spent most of his spare time working for charity . |
| 10 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 11 | THE MAN who masterminded those famously spunky advertisements for Castlemaine XXXX lager has emerged as the Tory Party 's last minute secret weapon . |
| 12 | ‘ Floyd , I 'd be more scared of a man who carried this . |
| 13 | WHEN police swooped on the Pan Africanist Congress on May 25th , arresting 70 of its members , including seven members of its national executive , the man who suffered most embarrassment was Roelf Meyer . |
| 14 | Unlike Dönitz , he was a highly cultivated man who had much charm , spoke fluent , conversational English and was quite at home with the microphone . |
| 15 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
| 16 | What troubles the admirer of Lewis the critic — the man who had such an eye for excellence in the poets of past ages — is that he could be capable of stanza after stanza in which the verse is deadened by flat language , repeated clumsy enjambments and sheer technical incompetence . |
| 17 | Today 's reading is quite a well-known poem about a man who had such a difficulty : |
| 18 | A man who had such a positive attitude towards Do It Yourself could surely have used same of that energy to combat the decay of his central nervous system . |
| 19 | Luke , the man who had such a low opinion of her and who had contrived this date presumably to serve his own devious ends , this man who had denied — yes , even earlier tonight — any involvement with Elise … |
| 20 | This from a man who had little interest in the event when he went up to Magdalene College last autumn to study transport and marketing — and the Boat Race is a triumph of both these days . |
| 21 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |
| 22 | But FA spokesman Mike Wilmore said : ‘ We have said that in principle we would n't be in favour , but it would be a brave man who said that would always be the position . ’ |
| 23 | I stood outside my community , like the man who took many steps on Sabbath ’ ; ( concluding ) ‘ I will never be free from this tyranny . ’ |
| 24 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
| 25 | He constantly came across people who adored his father and he could n't think why they did when he was such a silly little man who made such a fool of himself . |
| 26 | These are likenesses of the man who committed those attacks . |
| 27 | That 's the view of the man who signed many of the cheques during Souness 's reign at Rangers . |
| 28 | Both his Chancellors — the two most important figures in the Conservative Party — thought of him , not as a man of promise , but as a man who deserved some reward by virtue of his service . |
| 29 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 30 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |