Example sentences of "man who [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot , who occasionally attended Ouspensky 's seances in London in 1920 and who used the Tarot and Madam Sosostris in the London of The Waste Land , was familiar with the decay of magic ; but the man who attacked Back to Methuselah in 1921 hardly shared Frazer 's Comtian , progressive tone . |
| 2 | One time , Dionne brought Jay a huge bunch of plaited purple garlic from the Breton onion man who hung around in Islington from time to time . |
| 3 | The man who grew up in Nazareth , went to be baptized in the river Jordan , and brought grace and truth to the world — He is unique . |
| 4 | Glen Hoddle , the man who walked out on Swindon Town , walked into this afternoon 's transfer tribunal fearing his playing career was over . |
| 5 | " The Story of a Man Who Went Back to Nature " is how John Wyatt subtitles his autobiography . |
| 6 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 7 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 8 | I do n't feel sorry for that man who came in on drugs and dropped |
| 9 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 10 | Sent off no less than 20 times in his career , Johnson is a surprisingly quiet and tender man who lashed out at opponents , either on the spur of the moment or in the heart-felt belief that rational behaviour was for lesser talents . |
| 11 | This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 13 | The conditions of service , the harshness of the environment , the atrocious difficulties associated with travel and food supplies , the ravages of scurvy , and the son of men who went out in search of new lands for the tsar , all contributed to the tense atmosphere which sometimes erupted into bloody conflict . |
| 14 | Olga Stych was immediately biting about men who dressed up in aprons and fancy hats , and thought they could cook over a smelly barbecue . |