Example sentences of "[adj] man [Wh pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His conviction appalled many people who supported the actions of a doctor who , everyone involved agreed , was a compassionate man who had acted in what he considered his patient 's best interests . |
| 2 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 3 | John Walford 's fate spoke powerfully of life 's arbitrary horror , and of destruction brought down on a good and generous man who had done a terrible thing , but ‘ without fore-intending it ’ . |
| 4 | An exception was an early seventeenth-century black and white cottage ( slightly askew , like the crooked man 's in the nursery rhyme ) which was the pride and joy of an old man who had lived there ever since anyone could remember . |
| 5 | The individual concerned was a 51-year old man who had swallowed strychnine in a suicide attempt and who , in addition to severe muscle spasms , developed an overwhelming metabolic acidosis . |
| 6 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 7 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 8 | FitzAlan 's sister , Joanna , serfs and soldiers , a wizened yet bright-eyed old man who had welcomed her profusely , a priest intoning Latin . |
| 9 | He was wearing the suit belonging to that old man who had died . |
| 10 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 11 | ACTORS have researched Shakespeare in prisons , zoos , hospitals : David Garrick constructed his Lear in a lunatic asylum , studying an old man who had managed to drop his daughter out of a window . |
| 12 | He wanted to find Mr Brownlow , the kind old man who had looked after him in London . |
| 13 | The old man who had spent his life acquiring beautiful costly things drew a deep breath , and stood as if transfixed . |
| 14 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |
| 15 | Lying dazed in the oil-stained sawdust , beside the lifeless engine , Mungo was overcome with gratitude to the old man who had responded to his fear . |
| 16 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 17 | Three old men who had worked in the mines were found " … being all there alive in this County " , and based upon their evidence — " An account of the names of the severall Copper Workes or Mynes in Coniston fells that wer wrought in , when the smelt houses were up at Keswick . |
| 18 | Controls were drug users positive for HIV , drug users negative for HIV , and homosexual men who had seroconverted . |
| 19 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |
| 20 | Sylvie followed the dark-suited man who had opened the vast polished door to her , trailed past antique busts of senatorial gaze . |
| 21 | PC Stephen Huntrod climbed four storeys to rescue a 19-year-old man who had got stuck on the roof of the unsafe Old Vic theatre in Front Street , Stanley , in November . |
| 22 | Even with the whitewash skeleton painted on to him , Benny had no difficulty recognizing the serpentine man who had kidnapped her from the museum . |
| 23 | He was still the hard , ambitious man who had married her for her father 's company , not for love . |
| 24 | At a cemetery in Carpentras in south-eastern France on May 10 , the body of a Jewish man who had died two weeks previously was disinterred and , according to first reports which were later contradicted , impaled ; the grave of a woman was also disturbed , and more than 30 others were damaged . |
| 25 | Laker was a highly charismatic individual ; a self-made man who had built his airplane business on a visionary self-determination and zeal , a refusal to take no for an answer — all qualities which Branson fancied he could sympathise with . |
| 26 | For a second Sara looked blankly at him and then she suddenly remembered the little man who had called to see Matthew the day Fairfax had been there . |
| 27 | He tried to keep his eyes off the little man who had emerged from the ship . |
| 28 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 29 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 30 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |