Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who had been seen at the Black Friar with MacQuillan was Ron Barron . |
| 2 | Inside was the body of a man who had been shot through the mouth . |
| 3 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 4 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 5 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 6 | Mr Gray said he knew of one man who had been threatened with court action for not paying his water rates when he did not receive a reminder . |
| 7 | A LOYALIST gunman yesterday shot and wounded a Catholic man who had been disabled in an earlier murder attempt . |
| 8 | Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 . |
| 9 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 10 | ‘ We think as you 're out o ’ pocket enough , what wi' buyin' the timber , an' it 's to our advantage , ’ a carpenter explained — the man who had been cheated by the coal merchant . |
| 11 | She was now a married woman or , rather , widow , ostensibly carrying the child of a man who had been killed in action . |
| 12 | In his autobiography , he tries to see how this happened to ‘ the whole man ’ — to the man who had been haunted since youth by a sense of joy ’ , to the man whose love of Autumn , of Northernness , even of his own mother , was always , as he came to feel , a longing for one without whom our hearts will find no rest . |
| 13 | A man who had been bitten by a snake in Sydney , Australia , refused medical help when paramedics would n't allow his dog in the ambulance . |
| 14 | He had then been dragged behind the vehicle and held down while the man who had been sitting beside him during the journey drove the car over his legs . |
| 15 | Beth was crying too , crying inside , and she wondered whether she would ever again see the young man who had been left in her care . |
| 16 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 17 | While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room . |
| 18 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 19 | In one 1982 case , Mr Justice Taylor refused to allow a man who had been described by the " Sunday People " as a violent and drunken bully to bring a prosecution for criminal libel . |
| 20 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 21 | It hit the digger and the man who died was pinned under the front wheels . |
| 22 | Three years ago Anna McGurk was murdered by a man who 'd been bailed on a rape charge . |
| 23 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 24 | He did it automatically when the girl attacked the man who 'd been fighting with her father , recognizing it as a natural reaction to shock and grief . |
| 25 | Few fights — occasionally , you 'd get a man who 'd been gashed in the face with a bottle , that had been drunk in the bar and you 'd be called in and you 'd take him to hospital . |
| 26 | A man who 'd been scalded in the kitchens by cooking oil . |
| 27 | 1988 ) included 77 men who had been disabled for up to 15 years and the second included 42 men and 10 women disabled between 20 and 50 years ( Zarb et al . , |
| 28 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 29 | On the Unionist side men who had been fed with the heady talk of absolute resistance mobilized to resist what they now saw as the sell-out of the Southern Irish Unionists . |
| 30 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |