Example sentences of "man who was [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the Count Charles Boyer , ’ said Carradine , pointing at an impassive , middle-aged man who was throwing a fistful of ribbon-bound documents onto a table . |
| 2 | A visiting minister performed the burial service , a man who was lending the chapel a helping hand during the interregnum which came between the departure of Samuel Saunders and the arrival of Thomas Fox Newman . |
| 3 | The man who was owed the money planned to take her two sons as slaves . |
| 4 | He did n't act much like a man who was expecting a favour , and if it were n't for Ana he certainly would n't get one . |
| 5 | He saw Amaranth pinned in a corner by a tiny man who was waving a piece of paper under her nose , while a bevy of journalists tried to attract her attention . |
| 6 | A man who was called an enigma in Mouncy Street , a poor old fellow in Decimus Street , and a proper bastard in Paradise Street . |
| 7 | Three years later Francis Cleyn , the man who was to design the Hero and Leander tapestries , was chosen as designer and chief weaver to the Mortlake factory . |
| 8 | Even the Arabs in the Ministry of Health office in the hospital had n't really been briefed , and the poor man who was given the job of meeting our needs nearly had a heart attack when I showed him a copy of the list I had sent out to his head office weeks ago . |
| 9 | Ken was disturbed to know that he was being watched during a live performance , even by a man who was providing an audience out of sheer admiration . |
| 10 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |
| 11 | Clinton inspected the contents of one of the vats , smiling amiably at the man who was stirring the mass of baked beans . |
| 12 | Her marriage had broken up , and she had gone to live with a man who was starting an art gallery in the Lake District . |
| 13 | ‘ The man who was driving the van got hit on the head . |
| 14 | She turned to watch him leave , experiencing a second shock as she recognised the man who was driving the car that arrived to collect him as one of the pair who had waylaid her in the car park . |
| 15 | Well I 'd already spoken to the man who was running the course , the lecturer and he told me I could go on it , but his secretary said it was booked . |
| 16 | He stopped above a man who was painting the superstructure of his boat and asked him how far it was to the sea . |
| 17 | A man who was refused a job because of his beard has lost his appeal at an industrial tribunal . |
| 18 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |