Example sentences of "man who [vb past] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , more than that — a man who lacked the guts to face up to his responsibilities . |
| 2 | But the man who combined the gifts of preacher and politician , and who felt called , like John the Baptist ( or , to be exact , John the Presbyterian ) , was Foster Dulles , minister 's son , Wall Street lawyer and by divine right Secretary of State . |
| 3 | And would the paper , edited by the man who had the crotches and armpits cut out of his suits by Pamela Bordes , be featuring Mr Bell at all ? |
| 4 | For as long as she could remember she had herself been in love with the man who led the greyhounds and their attendants on a dignified procession round the track before the race began . |
| 5 | Frank Bainbridge , the same man who took the calves to market , once again organized the necessary procedure . |
| 6 | The editor of the who published photographs of the Princess of Wales exercising at a gym has described himself and the man who took the photographs as ratbags . |
| 7 | I 'd just like to second that it was a good day and also to point out as the er man who made the postcards we should n't get too excited about this as a money making scheme . |
| 8 | In 1893 America was ready to see Columbus as the great discoverer , the man who laid the foundations for a nation of bold entrepreneurs . |
| 9 | This was a man who understood the uses of spotlights . |
| 10 | He was no longer a farmer , just an ordinary man who owned the clothes he was wearing and nothing more . |
| 11 | Life as she wanted it to be was momentarily embodied by the don who taught her Greek , a brave and learned man who fought the Turks in Modern Greece . |
| 12 | He thinks that I am the man who killed the others on the wasteland , yet he keeps coming . |
| 13 | Morton , he realized , spoke with the confidence of the man who tapped the phones . |
| 14 | But beneath this exterior there lived a man who treated the islanders with the affection which a good father bestows on his slightly wayward children . |
| 15 | He was surprised that the Mage Initiate , an elderly man who supervised the clerics of the household , had not chastised Tavalouze for his appearance . |
| 16 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 17 | The man who saved The Roses Theatre from closure twelve years ago has lost his fight to stay in control . |
| 18 | ‘ The odds were 7–2 that I would disappear with the money before we even started , even money that I 'd wait until the houses were built and leg it with the money , ’ recalls the London born-and-bred ‘ community builder ’ , with all the relish of a man who beat the bookies . |
| 19 | The latter denied that it had issued any such weapon and the policemen , backed by courageous superiors , charged the man who fired the shots with attempted murder and both men with illegal possession of the weapon . |
| 20 | A fitting tribute to a man who opened the eyes of children — and their teachers . |
| 21 | Baden-Powell , the man who galvanised the hopes and fears of Edwardian England into a truly spectacular social movement , was also given to some equally spectacular celebrations of Hooliganism . |
| 22 | ‘ While it would be a brave man who bought the shares in the current atmosphere ( although we think they are a buy ) , only a fool would sell them . ’ |
| 23 | Swindon 's John Reynolds the man who pulled the strings for Andre Agassi . |
| 24 | THE man who pulled the Conservatives ' favourite advertising agency , Saatchi & Saatchi , back from the brink , yesterday confirmed his departure . |
| 25 | He was the man who held the drawstrings to the Shah 's own private fortune , amassed at home and abroad since the Shah had found himself penniless in his first exile in 1953 . |
| 26 | They trotted in tandem around the floor , high-stepping to the whim of a muscular young man who held the reins behind them . |
| 27 | The man who flew the hostages out , Virgin Chairman Richard Branson spoke of the human misery at the airport . |
| 28 | Consider the psychological condition of the man who conceived the pillars . |
| 29 | The man who designed the changes in 1993 says the responsibility rests not only with Government , but with all of us . |
| 30 | Men Who Ran The Trams — The Managers |