Example sentences of "man who [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The XU man who met him was sympathetic , but could not help much . |
| 2 | Today we meet young comedienne Lois Waters and her dad Denny , and tomorrow Chris Boardman talks about the man who spurred him on to Olympic fame . |
| 3 | His mentor , the man who taught him at university , is married to a woman who is half-Jewish , and their son has worked for Hess for years as his adviser . |
| 4 | It 's a story about God , and about one man who followed Him . |
| 5 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 6 | Anthony Fox , whose elderly parents were shot dead in their Moy home by loyalist gunmen last year , says he was relaxing on a sun-kissed balcony in Mallorca when he was approached by a man who asked him to contact MI5 in London . |
| 7 | He is a small but forceful creature who survived the untimely death of the man who manipulated him so brilliantly and went on to forge an equally close bond with a second partner . |
| 8 | This empowered him to send bailiffs ( county court employees ) to the house of the man who owed him money and had made no reply to his allegations . |
| 9 | For seventeen , he was big and heavily built , but the man who carried him was so tall and held his weight so easily that there was no doubt who he was . |
| 10 | I watched as he engaged a man who led him down to a boat ; they climbed in , and the man began to haul away on his oars . |
| 11 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 12 | The man who succeeded him as Secretary General of the Young Communists , Carlos Contreras Maluje , was picked up after putting up a struggle in the street . |
| 13 | The novel itself foregoes many such touches which are n't quite true because they betray a teasing Svidrigailov-like zest , or , if you prefer , counterzest ; just as , on the secondary plane , Lebyadkin 's reply to the man who tells him to stop getting drunk is wonderfully funny but wrong . |
| 14 | He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , we have to put these advertisements in , ’ said the tired , courteous , slightly frayed man who interviewed him , ‘ because we are a service for all schools in the private sector . |
| 16 | His fellow prizewinner is the man who released him . |
| 17 | His household accounts reveal an attachment to robust and expensive pleasures : £5 went to pay his card debts ; £2.13s. 4d. to a man who brought him a lion ; £30 to a young damsel who danced . |
| 18 | And no-one was more delighted than the man who brought him to Central Park — scout Eric Hawley . |
| 19 | Somewhere along the way , I 'll come across the man who organized Jay Hammond 's death ; then , further on , the man who killed him . |
| 20 | Fat Trask choked with laughter , spattering half-chewed pasta over another man who slapped him upside the head . |
| 21 | Outside , he was confronted by a young man who tackled him over why Yeovil 's Liberal Democrat council had ‘ wasted ’ £3 million on a new public swimming pool . |
| 22 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 23 | The man who jumped him had gone and the crowd about him was drawing back in horror . |
| 24 | And what he wants to exorcise are his bad feelings about the man who brung him up . |
| 25 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 26 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 27 | ‘ The man who pushed him in has got it . ’ |
| 28 | Whether Boswell means this sincerely , or as sleight-of-hand to deflect people from calling him a mere snob , must be measured against the remarkable and immortal results of his association with the one man who allowed him to share his company relentlessly . |
| 29 | However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections . |
| 30 | The man who beat him there , Ryder Cup debutant Barry Lane , had a 71 in his first-ever look at the course . |