Example sentences of "man [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never even learned the name of the man I spent the next two days with . |
| 2 | Nowhere to the west of the Wallace Line can be found the giant Cassowary , Birds of Paradise or marsupials of Australasia , and nowhere to the east of it are found the tigers , elephants , primates and early man which crossed the land-bridge once connecting Java , Sumatra and Borneo to mainland Asia . |
| 3 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The man you rented the house from has never paid the mortgage . |
| 5 | Special on the man who told the truth |
| 6 | Call it developing female insight , but SHe somehow knew Malamute was a man with a secret , a man in disguise , and also a man who knew the way SHe could turn this whole mess into an advantage . |
| 7 | The archbishop of Canterbury , Lanfranc of Pavia — a man who knew the whole world from Rome to London well — built himself an austere but magnificent church beside the great market place , and its crypt still survives , under the Church of St Mary-le-Bow by Cheapside . |
| 8 | ‘ Back in nineteen forty-four when Claudia was working on her thesis , I understood intellectually ’ — he says the word with a certain fastidiousness — ‘ what she was saying about the Masai , but as a man who knew the country and the natives , or thought I did , I could n't really accept it . |
| 9 | As used in the 14th century by the English poet of Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight ( a man who knew the world of courts and chapels well ) , clanness is the quality of something that is pure ( like a pearl ) or of fine and precise workmanship ( like an elaborate goblet ) . |
| 10 | ‘ She had been totally geared up for a reconciliation , ’ says Columb Farrelly , then manager of Sinead 's band and the man who persuaded the troubled teenager to seek out her mother . |
| 11 | According to Jonathan Culler , Ferdinand de Saussure is the father of modern linguistics , the man who re-organised the systematic study of languages in such a way as to make possible the achievements of twentieth century linguists . |
| 12 | The man who collected the sewer rates in Bishopsgate was quick.to notice a change of ownership at no. 77 ; striking out ‘ Joseph Ready ’ in his book , he substituted ‘ Titford ’ instead — that would cost W. C. T. 6s. 8d. per annum , whether he liked it or not . |
| 13 | The man who collected the cash-card is said to be about 30 years of age of medium build with black curly hair and clean-shaven . |
| 14 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ No , more than that — a man who lacked the guts to face up to his responsibilities . |
| 16 | I have something here that might help you find the man who attacked the poor girl . |
| 17 | His description is similar to man who attacked the student … |
| 18 | ‘ The two of you will have to come to the Major 's tonight , ’ the man who gathered the money said . |
| 19 | It was a gnome-like little man who asked the question after removing his trilby . |
| 20 | Goma appealed to the man who denounced the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to stand up and be counted , and so give an example to his fellow citizens to persuade them to overcome their reticence about signing the Charter : |
| 21 | The man who ran the office was Michael Colborne , a chief petty officer whom Charles had become friendly with aboard HMS Norfolk , during his early days at sea . |
| 22 | No , I do n't mean marathon running , although I am certain that the spectators of the original run from the Battle of Marathon to Athens would be astonished to learn that we regard such things as sports , since the man who ran the original dropped dead on arrival . |
| 23 | This time one came off ; the man who ran the shy picked it up and gave it to Emmie . |
| 24 | The man who ran the world 's first sub-four minute mile has been back to the track where he made history nearly thirty five years ago . |
| 25 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 26 | ‘ You set yourself up as judge and jury , and yet who are you to decide matters — a man who spent the evening philandering with his secretary ! ’ |
| 27 | The man who truncated the glorious French litany — ‘ Cette sauce … ’ on the HP bottle . |
| 28 | ‘ … and three of our aircraft have failed to return , ’ the man who read the news would intone on the midday bulletin . |
| 29 | But the man who combined the gifts of preacher and politician , and who felt called , like John the Baptist ( or , to be exact , John the Presbyterian ) , was Foster Dulles , minister 's son , Wall Street lawyer and by divine right Secretary of State . |
| 30 | The war turned an immature , irresponsible aristocrat into a man who combined the frivolity of his youthful lifestyle with the dedicated , passionate , highly articu-late and rational exponential qualities of the reforming politician . |