Example sentences of "man who [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reagan 's staff had the advantage of a candidate responsive to direction , a man who knew about the importance of good camera angles and could read from a teleprompter with the effortless ease of a trained , accomplished communicator . |
| 2 | Sitting quietly among his family was a man who knew of the ‘ old ’ Rendcomb only too well . |
| 3 | Harry 's weight swung him round but did not tear him from his hold , and it was the boy and not the man who hung for a long , palpitating moment suspended on the edge of the drop . |
| 4 | At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday a jury decided that a farm labourer , William Shepherd , 19 , of Cherrywood Drive , Beith , was the man who ran from the crowd to deliver the blow . |
| 5 | A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip . |
| 6 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 7 | In this way , although it could not have considered the fact , it was very like the man who waited in the shadows of its home territory . |
| 8 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 9 | Those who walked the perimeter path went behind him , and no one spoke to the man who gazed at the wall that held him . |
| 10 | There was no Madame Eglantine , only a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie , took the package and said he would hand it over to the lady next time she visited the place . |
| 11 | Her husband was a wealthy man who belonged to a family that owned a successful printing and publishing business , and the parties had enjoyed a comfortable life-style during the marriage . |
| 12 | This was not always so : in Senior ( 1899 ) a man who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar People refused to call a doctor to his child , who subsequently died ; he was held guilty of manslaughter on the ground that he had committed an unlawful act ( wilful neglect of the child ) which caused death . |
| 13 | He was convinced from the beginning that Ken was perfect for the role of the slightly dotty but romantic detective in the white raincoat , a man who existed on a diet of macaroons he produced from out of a black Gladstone bag . |
| 14 | In Brixton he interviewed yet another man who admitted to the murder but was swiftly cleared . |
| 15 | The man who listened into an alleged conversation between the Princess of Wales and a male friend says only parts of his tape have been made public , and that far more damaging sections may soon be revealed . |
| 16 | His findings include a confession from a man who shot at the UN plane minutes before it crashed . |
| 17 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 18 | In July 1990 British researchers investigating the origins of AIDS reported that tests on a man who died of an unexplained disease in 1959 showed that he had carried the HIV virus . |
| 19 | By dissecting the brain of a 74-year-old man who died after a 14-year history of Alzheimer 's , DeLong and his co-workers showed a ‘ profound and selective loss ’ of Meynert cells , compared to brains of people who died without a history of dementia . |
| 20 | A 25-year-old unemployed Londonderry man was today charged with the manslaughter of a man who died in a car accident near Limavady on Tuesday night . |
| 21 | The second man who died in the fire was leading fire fighter John Davis , from Leominster , a part-timer for 13 years , also married with 2 children . |
| 22 | A 60-year-old south Armagh man who died in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast two days after falling from a ladder in the yard at his home was buried yesterday . |
| 23 | A CLEVELAND man who died in the North Sea helicopter tragedy last weekend has been formally identified . |
| 24 | A young man who booked into a hostelry in London Road , Reading , and refused to give his name , was suspected . |
| 25 | Police investigating the death of a man who walked into a shop in west London today and set himself alight found the body of a woman in a house opposite . |
| 26 | However , I want to ask the name of the man who walked over the child . ’ |
| 27 | A MAN who went on a violent rampage , breaking bottles and glasses in a pub and attacking a woman and a police officer , claimed his drinks had been spiked with drugs . |
| 28 | Did you hear about the man who went to the fancy dress party as a bone ? |
| 29 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 30 | I bought a bottle of something special from a man who came to the door . |