Example sentences of "man who [vb past] [adv] [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 | ‘ Ah , ’ said Joe Connors , a dark little man who reached forward with spatulate fingers for the corkscrew , ‘ There 's only a few of us left . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 6 | Glen Hoddle , the man who walked out on Swindon Town , walked into this afternoon 's transfer tribunal fearing his playing career was over . |
| 7 | " The Story of a Man Who Went Back to Nature " is how John Wyatt subtitles his autobiography . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I do n't feel sorry for that man who came in on drugs and dropped |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A dangerous man , and a man who lived eternally in danger . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him . |
| 15 | In a few moments we 'll be joined by Dan Topolski , a man who did more for Oxford rowing than anyone else . |
| 16 | Still , after all , Milner was a man who stood aside from politics and despised them , and his kindergarten were defiantly administrators , not politicians . |