Example sentences of "man who [vb past] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously a man who chose his words with care . |
| 2 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 3 | a few years ago , the mail revealed a photograph of an elaborately chased soup tureen engraved with the arms of the Duke of York , the second son of George III , who was immortalised in the nursery rhyme as the man who marched his men up the hill and marched them down again . |
| 4 | Easily enough said with hindsight , but then Eric William was not the kind of man who hid his talents behind a bushel , for as Ivar Oxaal noticed , ‘ Eric Williams was always fundamentally , legally , morally and intellectually right ’ while his opponents were ‘ usually incompetent , malicious , and weak-willed creatures ’ who ‘ are reduced to an incoherent blubbering as the omnipotent young black colonial reduces their arguments to ashes . ’ |
| 5 | He was a man who liked his cases to be neat , to be finished in broad brush strokes . |
| 6 | A MAN who doused his clothes with petrol and set himself on fire in a bank in Co Tipperary was under intensive care in hospital today . |