Example sentences of "[noun prp] man [Wh pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local case which produced front-page headlines — ‘ Vicious schemer ’ is jailed for life SHAM TEARS OF AN EVIL WIFE — described how a former Coventry man who had moved to become a licensee in a Yorkshire pub had been killed by his 32-year-old wife and her barman lover . |
| 2 | Radio Cleveland broadcaster Alan Wright said he was overwhelmed by the response when he raised the case of a Redcar man who had to call the police to get rid of Sure Style salesmen . |
| 3 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |
| 4 | The SS man who had told me to find him seemed to be particularly irritated by this information . |
| 5 | Rory was grateful not to get the lecture about the IRA men who had lived in foxholes in the soaking bog in the fifties , hunted out into the mountains by the B-men at the end of a long and terrible campaign , but he continued with the trains of thought . |
| 6 | The RUC men who had conducted the police investigations were fiercely indignant and a senior officer threatened to resign . |