Example sentences of "the man [Wh pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in 1984 , when Kylie was still only 16 , that her next big break came and it was again Alan Hardy , the man who had cast her in The Sullivans three years before , who was involved . |
| 2 | Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized . |
| 3 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 4 | The Falangist leader , Hedilla , met with a group of Alphonsine monarchists which included José María de Areilza , erstwhile right-wing parliamentary candidate for Bilbao , clandestine messenger between some of the military conspirators and nephew of the man who had propitiated the contact between Consul Cavaletti and the Basque president , Aguirre . |
| 5 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
| 6 | It was a generous and graceful tribute to the man who had led a highly personal campaign against him . |
| 7 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 8 | The man who had led the procession stepped forward and sprinkled the coffin with spiced rum . |
| 9 | The man who had run the neighbouring Radio Clyde in Glasgow moved south to London 's Capital Radio . |
| 10 | They also included one unusual name : Donald Swift-Hook , the man who had run the CEGB 's own research effort into wind power for eight years , agreed to give his views on our behalf . |
| 11 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
| 12 | Al-Lurd was Lord Cromer , the man who had run Egypt for over twenty years before the present incumbent . |
| 13 | For a few brief moments she 'd actually managed to persuade herself that there was some kind of special rapport between herself and the man who had kissed her in the semi-darkness with such tender passion . |
| 14 | He decided to leave this one for the moment but logged the fact that Jennifer Morgan had still been interested in , and comfortable with , the man who had become her sister 's fiancé . |
| 15 | Nothing would suggest the man who had collected the material for Psychopathia Sexualis . |
| 16 | I did n't realize Farouk … ’ she trailed off when she saw Graham and Laidlaw both look past her , their eyes riveted on the man who had appeared in the doorway . |
| 17 | Steve Cram had to face Sebastian Coe in the 1500 metres , the man who had beaten him in Los Angeles , and Daley Thompson was to meet his three main rivals in the decathlon — Hingsen , Wentz and Kratschmer — in front of their home crowd . |
| 18 | Siward , the man who had planned in his turn a fair dominion for himself and his offspring , and had seen his son die in the land of his rival . |
| 19 | For the man who had written the song ‘ My little island girl ’ Lawrence 's blend of the sophisticated with savage sexuality was particularly disturbing . |
| 20 | That letter had unnerved her and now she could not face speaking to the man who had written it . |
| 21 | There was a right and wrong way of doing things , and her Libran soul demanded the right way for the man who had lost his life saving theirs . |
| 22 | He knew Alice James would identify Drew as the man who had seen near Oliver 's shop just after six , covered in blood . |
| 23 | He was immediately released from his confinement , but he was still liable to the man who had given him credit in the belief he could keep his promise to pay later . |
| 24 | Men jumped on to the bank to secure it , and the man who had given the orders leapt overboard with a silver plash , two others behind him . |
| 25 | From forcing her , by an act of love , to follow him through the world , not barefoot as she 'd accused him but in no great luxury , instead of " obliging " the man who had given her her chance . |
| 26 | Fabia went to bed that night having seen nothing of the man who had given her a lift , but with other more important issues rising to the surface . |
| 27 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 28 | John Lewis , the man who had complained about the effect of financial cuts on safety at Lowermoor , was the only person to be sacked as a result of the incident . |
| 29 | ‘ And mind those bloody boots when you get up again , ’ said the man who had complained before . |
| 30 | There was the man who had trained his dog to bite Arabs , and who informed us that a dog always knows an Arab by his stink . |