Example sentences of "[prep] man [Wh pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had taken a London business colleague out who had never fished before ; the sort of man who had done everything and knew everything . |
| 2 | It was the first violent act , and she knew the sort of man who had perpetrated that act far too well to naively believe that the slaughtering of Suki would be the beginning and the end . |
| 3 | Every week a detachment of men who had completed all the selection processes , interviews and tests would go off to the 4ème Règiment Étranger at Castelnaudary near Toulouse to start their basic training . |
| 4 | His wish was not to rake over the past of men who had lived peacefully in this country since they came to Britain as refugees after the war , he said . |
| 5 | Prayers sprang to the lips of men who had made a trade out of phoney miracles . |
| 6 | A group of children , their dirty faces streaked with tears , clung to her tattered gown and stared round-eyed at the group of men who had commandeered the room and were now talking quickly in an alien language . |
| 7 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 8 | A group of men who had come with Leofnoth found a broached cask and began to drag it out of the rear of the wood , and Siward had three of them hanged . |
| 9 | They were no less repugnant to tens of thousands of men who had fought in the previous war , as they would have been to tens of thousands more who died in it . |
| 10 | He did n't see his task as correcting the ways of men who had strayed into crime and needed help ; he and his warders existed to protect society from the kind of human garbage locked within the walls of Whitely . |
| 11 | Not far distanced from the council , in England at any rate , was Parliament , dominated for much of the fourteenth century by the peerage ; and in that body , too , matters of policy and national finance were frequently discussed , for it was there that kings liked to benefit from the practical experience of men who had taken an active part in war . |
| 12 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 13 | There was between them and the quarterdeck a group of men who had left the fighting . |
| 14 | British law , he claimed , unfairly discriminated against men who had undergone surgery to become women and vice versa and , despite losing the case , he launched a national campaign for transsexual rights . |
| 15 | For 1988 the number of reports of newly diagnosed HIV-1 infection in men who had had sex with men ( 1062 ) was the lowest in any year since the widespread introduction of testing . |
| 16 | Although Gundovald received open support from men who had fallen out with Guntram , or who had been left without a patron at Chilperic 's death , Theodore of Marseilles claimed that he had been ordered to receive Gundovald by Childebert 's magnates . |
| 17 | He was a Venetian and therefore descended from men who had ruled and schemed and dominated the world for centuries . |
| 18 | After the appeal in Air Mail , Mrs Marsden had calls from men who had known members of the crew . |
| 19 | The Royal Duke was a fishermen 's pub with an afternoon trade from men who had brought their catch in during the small hours of the morning . |
| 20 | There were several indignant letters from men who had learned to look after themselves very well in the Services and had followed this efficient regime through their married life . |
| 21 | Inevitably , such paper tigers had no effect on men who had embarked on so desperate a venture , especially when they had never paid more than lip-service to the authority of the Republican politicians . |
| 22 | He told her that he thought Terry was a prisoner of war because he had spoken to men who had returned from his Company . |
| 23 | I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it . |
| 24 | The link between these operas is that they are about men who had changed the world through the power of ideas . |
| 25 | But the five dockers ' case was about the ‘ very simple issue ’ of punishment for men who had defied the order of the NIRC and had expressed their intention to continue in that defiance . |
| 26 | A captain could economize on the equipping and provisioning of his men , or continue to draw pay for men who had died or deserted . |
| 27 | Perhaps they had adjusted to the sanitised neutralism of a Stockholm commune , but it seemed an odd life for men who had chosen to become soldiers . |
| 28 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 29 | In 1932 he edited Escapers All , derived from a series of talks given by men who had escaped from prisoner-of-war camps . |
| 30 | The enlightened Bazarov had inherited , was continuous with , took a stage further , the liberal and Westernizing impulse of the 1840s which itself followed the Decembrist uprising of 1825 , an aristocratic bid for reform by men who had chased Napoleon out of Russia and had later felt the civilizing influence of Paris . |