Example sentences of "of man [Wh pn] [vb past] [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 | He seemed to her like the kind of man who loved to provoke reaction . |
| 4 | They sprawled across the padded benches before him with the somewhat jaded air of men who expected to hear nothing new . |
| 5 | They wore expensive suits and had the general air of men who 'd found the secret key to the money pump and were cranking its handle for all they were worth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Prayers sprang to the lips of men who had made a trade out of phoney miracles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was between them and the quarterdeck a group of men who had left the fighting . |