Example sentences of "man who [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The images are vivid : an unmarried mother who lives off welfare cheques ; a young man who drifts from girlfriend to girlfriend , selling drugs to get by . |
| 2 | The man who hopes to be Chancellor next week can not surely be preparing a leap in the dark . |
| 3 | The man who hopes to be the next Nigel Mansell . |
| 4 | Now it is the age of fulfilled man who takes in all the Trinity and becomes one with them . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's a lovely man who deserves to be loved , ’ she said . |
| 6 | His book is the testimony of a disillusioned man who turns with some bitterness on his former colleagues . |
| 7 | You will probably have to see events through the eyes of one or more detectives , of a scene-of-the-crime officer , of various laboratory experts and of the man who sits in his office at headquarters and directs the operation . |
| 8 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |
| 9 | It 's nearly always a woman who talks about house plants ; it 's nearly always a man who talks about the real vegetable garden and has the gnarled fingers . |
| 10 | ‘ A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea . |
| 11 | The third example is a young man who falls into the rare category of those who pose a serious threat to public safety , a threat which in some instances exists for only weeks or months , although occasionally a person may remain potentially dangerous for some years . |
| 12 | This is the story of a young man who falls in love with a girl as he is driving away from a car park . |
| 13 | ‘ The young man who travels with you . ’ |
| 14 | Perfect for campaigning with , perfect for posters , TV , films and interviews , ’ said Bush a tall , silver-haired man who speaks in the burr of his native Wiltshire in England 's West Country . |
| 15 | He is a man who stumbles through life going through various coincidences and improbabilities . |
| 16 | We hear about the sensitive New Age man who stays at home and changes nappies — but , actually , I do n't think these men are any more satisfying to women than any other male role model for the past 2,000 years . ’ |
| 17 | AT a time when there are searching questions about the medical aspect of the sport , it may seem unfortunate that a man who suffers from a disability is fighting for a world title . |
| 18 | The man who suffers from their behaviour is Ruslan Khasbulatov , the speaker of parliament . |
| 19 | If it is easy for a man — it is usually the man who suffers from such fears — to hit difficulty due to his own self-doubt , it is doubly easy for his partner to support or feed that doubt by her own expectation of his failure or overt recognition of it . |
| 20 | It is a wise man who learns from other men 's mistakes , but a wiser man who learns from his own . |
| 21 | It is a wise man who learns from other men 's mistakes , but a wiser man who learns from his own . |
| 22 | However , looking at the archetype of the Weaving Mother operating in the general human domain , we can see the same principle operating in , for instance , the teaching systems of spiritual and esoteric traditions , where it may just as easily be the man who calls upon the powers of binding . |
| 23 | And he told him how to listen to God — how any man who listens in the spirit of ‘ Not my will , but God 's ’ can receive definite , accurate direction and instruction . |
| 24 | In 1922 , he made The Man Without Desire , an imaginative account of a man who wakes from a sleep of several hundred years only to find he suffers from a lack of emotion . |
| 25 | Afterwards we have a pint in the welcoming pub , where there 's a poem on the wall about telling a man who boozes by the company he chooses . |
| 26 | One was about a Machine hit man who emerges from early retirement when his wife is slain by a serial murderer . |
| 27 | And at once she remembers Columbus , he envisions her remembering him , the invisible man who dreams of entering the invisible world , the unknown and perhaps even unknowable world beyond the edge of things , beyond the stone bowl of the everyday , beyond the thick blood of the sea . |
| 28 | Sometimes it 's the man who goes off sex . |
| 29 | The priest who is thought of as a man who goes into poor areas and preaches and helps the needy and the poor as Saint Francis did , is showing rich tourists paintings . |
| 30 | But Shakespeare 's manipulation ultimately disrupts Harsnett 's design : ‘ In Shakespeare , the realization that demonic possession is a theatrical imposture leads not to a clarification — the clear-eyed satisfaction of a man who refuses to be gulled — but to a deeper uncertainty , a loss of moorings , in the face of evil . ’ |