Example sentences of "of [art] man who have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 2 | Within minutes the steps were swarming with black-coated , medal-encrusted figures , all on their way to raise double gins to the fond memory of the man who had been a leader in the game of Intelligence . |
| 3 | At 1 p.m. the BBC Home Service reported the execution at Wandsworth and the last public message of the man who had been hanged . |
| 4 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 5 | One of Al Bowlly 's greatest numbers , ’ he added , mentioning the name of the man who had been England 's most popular crooner until his death . |
| 6 | Billy Smallbury , one of the men who had been in the cart , climbed up with a bucket of water , to throw water on Gabriel and keep the flames off him . |
| 7 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 8 | The good news from the Beacon Centre is that two of the men who have been coming along have committed their lives to Jesus . |
| 9 | He had the look of a man who 'd been pacing about restlessly , his tie loose about his throat , his shirt collar undone . |
| 10 | It was the slumber of a man who had been at his cups for some considerable time . |
| 11 | During restoration in the house , a skeleton was discovered of a man who had been buried standing upright . |
| 12 | She was now a married woman or , rather , widow , ostensibly carrying the child of a man who had been killed in action . |
| 13 | Inside was the body of a man who had been shot through the mouth . |
| 14 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 15 | Rose knew Ted in this mood : he remembered that he was the son of a man who had been dresser to George Robey , and grandson of a woman who had known Crippen . |
| 16 | I can tell you of er of a man who 's been told that he should see his children less |
| 17 | I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul 's novel : the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend , the novelist Paul Theroux , as having in earlier times been ‘ merciless , solitary , and ( one of his favourite words ) unassailable ’ . |
| 18 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 19 | His eyes were hollow , dark rimmed with fatigue and worry ; his skin was unnaturally pale , the skin of a man who has been kept too long from the light . |
| 20 | You give the impression of a man who has been accustomed all his life to wealth and privilege . ’ |
| 21 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a man who has been missing from Gartloch Hospital in Glasgow for six days . |