Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eighty five year old man who was beaten up and robbed at knifepoint at his home has been talking about his ordeal . |
| 2 | A man who was beaten and stabbed while out jogging patrolled city streets until he found one of his attackers . |
| 3 | A woman 's being questioned about the attempted murder of a man who was dragged underneath a car . |
| 4 | They were supposed to raiding the city regiments and paying for it , there was constant trouble for this , and the man who was appointed colonel by the king , Nicholas Selby , was very unpopular . |
| 5 | The leader of this threat is Nik Aziz Nik Mat , a humble-mannered man who was elected chief minister of Kelantan after a working life spent teaching in the mosque next to his birthplace . |
| 6 | They also want to speak to an elderly man who was wearing a brown jacket and was refused entry to the bank because he arrived just as the robber had left . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the paper had taken on a new cub reporter in the person of Matthew Smith , a tall gangling young man who was to go far in his chosen field . |
| 8 | At the age of twelve , I tried to get an audition for a place in the Suffolk Junior Strings , but the man who was organising it , said : ‘ had you played the viola , you would have got in . ’ |
| 9 | By the end of 1978 , the ayatollah had come to be seen , by many of these Western intellectuals interested in Iran , as a saintly old man who was determined to establish a far more just , democratic and 'spiritual " regime than that run by the cruel , corrupt and despotic Shah . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's the Count Charles Boyer , ’ said Carradine , pointing at an impassive , middle-aged man who was throwing a fistful of ribbon-bound documents onto a table . |
| 11 | ‘ Miss Hopper , the man who was injured ran a child prostitution ring , ’ Nicholson said , his tone a little calmer now . |
| 12 | The man who was injured says he 's lost thousands of pounds and has n't worked since . |
| 13 | The Policy and Resources Committee decided to wait until the end of an appeal by Richard Shield , the man who was sacked for recruiting Tommy Sheppard . |
| 14 | First she dedicated her song that night to the man who was bleeding ( he was still in The Bar , the taxi had n't come yet ) , and then to the men who had brought their fists down on his face just two streets from her Bar . |
| 15 | A man who was using private land as an unofficial scrap-yard and heavy goods vehicle base has been asked to get the site cleared up . |
| 16 | A church service has been held in memory of a man who was stabbed to death in his back garden . |
| 17 | A man who was stabbed and beaten with a metal bar on the doorstep of his own home , says he feared for his life . |
| 18 | An exhalation of irritation , a sense of panic in the man who was trained to recognise , to intuit , the signs of danger , the signals of need … |
| 19 | Meantime Becky had run to Mrs Beattie and brought back Elspeth and both of them , with the help of a man who was passing , pulled John out and walked him , dripping and stinking of the pond , back to his house and to his bed . |
| 20 | A visiting minister performed the burial service , a man who was lending the chapel a helping hand during the interregnum which came between the departure of Samuel Saunders and the arrival of Thomas Fox Newman . |
| 21 | An inquest jury has returned a verdict that a man who was shot dead by two police marksmen in Shropshire was killed lawfully . |
| 22 | The family of a man who was shot dead during a row over a boundary fence have started legal action against two people who were cleared of the killing . |
| 23 | Scott quotes the case of a man who was persecuted by visions during a period of sickness and depression ; one of these visions was ‘ the apparition of a gentleman-usher , dressed as if to wait on a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland … arrayed in court dress , with bag and sword , tamboured waistcoat and chapeaubras ’ who ‘ glided beside me like the ghost of Beau Nash … |
| 24 | ‘ And I , ’ said Auguste eagerly , ‘ heard of a man who was poisoned because the coffee he drank was strained through a linen cloth which months earlier had been soaked in atropine solution , and mistakenly used again . |
| 25 | I was , after all , living with a man who was stealing from me , keeping part of his life secret from me , who expected me to adapt myself to his obsessive timekeeping . |
| 26 | And at that moment the man who was singing turned his song into the sob it had always almost been ; the stretched note was broken by the efforts of his strained , knotted stomach into a series of high , senseless yelps . |
| 27 | Stefan Kiszko , the man who was cleared of the murder of eleven-year-old Lesley Molseed has told how he was set upon by inmates when he first arrived in jail . |
| 28 | He was a man who was isolated in his world , to such a degree that his immediate environment probably hardly mattered to him . |
| 29 | You know , this man who was hanging on the cross beside Jesus he had not been christened , he had n't been dedicated , he had never been to a confirmation class in his life , he had never been baptized , he had never been received into church membership he had never even gathered around the Lord 's table ! |
| 30 | Had Vincent sought pain for himself , putting himself forward as the rival of a man who was bound to triumph over him ? |