Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] found [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This came from the man who found me the assassin , ’ he went on . |
| 2 | I did not like the accusation of naïvety , preferring to believe that I was an honest man who found it hard to imagine how other people could live with a guilty conscience . |
| 3 | He was a taciturn man who found it difficult to talk to a boy ; but he did sometimes spare time to tell him of his travels in the wilder parts of Alberta , of encounters with grizzly bears , white water rushing through narrow gorges , being lost in unexpected snowstorms , in an unconquered wilderness totally alien to his suburb-bred son . |
| 4 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 5 | But being married to him had taught her that he was not a man who found it easy to forgive and forget — indeed , she was tempted to think that he enjoyed harbouring grudges and taking revenge . |