Example sentences of "[adj] man who was [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police are now waiting to interview the 25 year old man who was driving the stolen car . |
| 2 | He saw Amaranth pinned in a corner by a tiny man who was waving a piece of paper under her nose , while a bevy of journalists tried to attract her attention . |
| 3 | Even the Arabs in the Ministry of Health office in the hospital had n't really been briefed , and the poor man who was given the job of meeting our needs nearly had a heart attack when I showed him a copy of the list I had sent out to his head office weeks ago . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 6 | She paused to introduce Lindsey to the young man who was checking the various monitors and equipment . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |