Example sentences of "man who [verb] [vb pp] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Capron was Urquhart 's boss , the head of K8 , the man who had ordered Urquhart not to see her again .
2 Particularly when it was discovered — as it would be — that she was the mother of a bastard child , the daughter of a man who had left Frizingley heavily in debt , and had already been dismissed by Miss Ernestine Baker for her loose behaviour in a public street .
3 The man who 'd caught Jude when she 'd dropped from the high-wire .
4 Talking during the week with a veteran of the ANC — a man who has opposed Smith publicly and privately for years — I was surprised to hear him say , ‘ Whether the PM was right or wrong , we must assist him now to look into this idea of a change of heart . ’
5 The enlightened Bazarov had inherited , was continuous with , took a stage further , the liberal and Westernizing impulse of the 1840s which itself followed the Decembrist uprising of 1825 , an aristocratic bid for reform by men who had chased Napoleon out of Russia and had later felt the civilizing influence of Paris .
6 Most of them looked cold and miserable , and they were the men who had bought meals there when they could afford to do so , men who had helped build up the business .
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