Example sentences of "old man [Wh pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | FitzAlan 's sister , Joanna , serfs and soldiers , a wizened yet bright-eyed old man who had welcomed her profusely , a priest intoning Latin . |
| 6 | He was wearing the suit belonging to that old man who had died . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He wanted to find Mr Brownlow , the kind old man who had looked after him in London . |
| 10 | The old man who had spent his life acquiring beautiful costly things drew a deep breath , and stood as if transfixed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This same period is also covered by a series of long letters from Edward to Harry Hooton , an older man who had married Janet Aldis and , increasingly , by correspondence between Edward and Ian MacAlister , who became one of Edward 's staunchest friends . |
| 15 | Better educated , brighter , and more articulate than many of the older men who had supported Paisley since the 1950s , Robinson gave the party managerial and organizational skills it had previously lacked . |