Example sentences of "man who [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Mormon FBI man who dropped to his knees at the roadside began to pray . |
| 2 | They could not understand a man who chose privacy rather than the comfort of comradeship and shared pleasures ; who read books on mathematics and astronomy rather than drink in the mess with his fellow-officers . |
| 3 | Obviously a man who chose his words with care . |
| 4 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 5 | A young mother says she 's living in fear for her life after a threatening phone call from the man who kidnapped her at gunpoint . |
| 6 | Steve Biko , a brave and remarkable man who met a tragic death in the course of a patriotic struggle : this is the very stuff of opera . |
| 7 | The XU man who met him was sympathetic , but could not help much . |
| 8 | And in the second incident , they 're also hunting a man who robbed a woman at gunpoint last night . |
| 9 | DETECTIVES hunting a man who robbed a Darlington building society are hoping to have the incident featured on the TV programme Crimewatch . |
| 10 | Neil , a driver/porter , puts his self defence training into practice helping the police arrest a knife-wielding man who robbed Haddows off-licence in Grangemouth of £200 . |
| 11 | I saw one young boy , of thirteen I would say , have his leg broken by one agent — a brute of a man who grinned when the lad cried out . |
| 12 | Sometimes , as the wind blew round the house , I imagined I heard his voice outside , and I thought with horror of the young man who ate boys ' hearts . |
| 13 | Instinct and an adolescence spent in observation rather than practice told her this was the kind of man who ate little girls like Suzie for breakfast . |
| 14 | GRAHAM GOOCH , the man who dragged English Test cricket out of its stupor , smiles from the dust jacket , his face symbolically dripping sweat . |
| 15 | As she approached County Hall on New Street , she was grabbed from behind by a man who dragged her down an alley . |
| 16 | How could she feel such deep emotions for a man who riled her so easily ? |
| 17 | " As I understand it from Purvis , Madam Marchioness is wallowing in despair because she loved a man who chucked her out . |
| 18 | The man who told her he was Jesus Christ , second time around . |
| 19 | The taxi driver was a sharp-looking middle-aged man who told me that he was the landlord of the Dove bar in town . |
| 20 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 21 | The man who told it , an old groom on the estate , was a traditional storyteller . |
| 22 | He will merely be remembered as the man who told us , as the Minister of Energy during the four-day week in the last days of the Heath government , to clean our teeth in the dark , for heaven 's sake . |
| 23 | Special on the man who told the truth |
| 24 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 25 | ‘ [ The defendant ] is a violent man who told me of his past and of his having shot and killed at least three other men . |
| 26 | The man who told me about them is not afraid because he can do more harm to them than they can inflict on him . ’ |
| 27 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
| 28 | His favourite was about the man who told a doctor : ‘ Yes . |
| 29 | A SOUTH Armagh man who told Newry Magistrates Court he was going to get married when he got out of prison , was told he ‘ could get married there now ’ by Regional Magistrate Gerry Harty . |
| 30 | Gunner Howerd , the man who began in camp concerts and became the king of camp . |