Example sentences of "man who [vb -s] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genet uses the blacks , the way a man who has just emptied his revolver reaches for the knife at his side ’ ( ‘ The Revenge of Jean Genet ’ , 175 ) . |
| 2 | Such is the charisma of a man who has just had seven weeks off following an operation on an old knee injury and has played only two tournaments . |
| 3 | Robyn turns to face a man who has just entered the shop : tall , heavily built , with bushy sideboards and moustache , a sheepskin coat open over his three-piece suit . |
| 4 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |
| 5 | A reasonable employer would not , for example , be entitled to instruct a man who has just resumed work following a major heart attack to undertake immediately a long and arduous period of foreign travel . |
| 6 | South Africa have named for the same job , not a professional journalist , but Dr. Nick Labuschagne , a man who has just been ousted as President of the Natal Rugby Union . |
| 7 | We speak here of a man who has just completed a season in which he won four USPGA Tour events and more than $1,000,000 to finish second on the money list behind Greg Norman . |
| 8 | Holmes looked like a man who has just won an important game . |
| 9 | He looked like a man who has just stepped into an empty lift-shaft . |
| 10 | When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . |
| 11 | ‘ A neurotic , ’ he said , ‘ is a man who 's just worked out what 's going on . ’ |
| 12 | says the man who 's just arrived ; |
| 13 | You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’ |
| 14 | The man who 's just won an election usually thinks things have gone from to better and the man who 's lost it thinks they have gone from bad to worse . |