Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She answered an advert in a lonely hearts column and started an affair with this man who had stated in the ad that he was a good looking 43-year-old bachelor , comfortably off , with car . |
| 2 | She had danced with a man who had danced with a girl , who had danced with the Prince of Wales . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 5 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 6 | Cornelius , the man who had suggested the ill-fated drive to Burford , the man who had stayed behind when the others started back to Oxford , sat before Harry , twenty years on , with a smile on his face that mixed candid reminiscence and flagrant duplicity . |
| 7 | The constable was soon joined by his colleagues and between them they obtained detailed descriptions of the man who had dashed from the direction of the bakery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Alone of them all , he had been shriven by the Pope — the Bishop would proclaim it yet again — and yet felt no different from the man who had stood on shipboard beneath a sky turned to flame and faced death with no fears and no doubts , for on such a day it was no hardship to die . |
| 10 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 11 | Jesus was not executed by the Jewish Sanhedrin -which could , with permission , stone to death a man who had trespassed against Judaic law — but by the Roman administration . |
| 12 | He portrayed himself as victim of imperialism , as a man who had suffered in the struggle against colonial rule , but who would not let it beat him . |
| 13 | Employing a night watchman was the solution to his problem , and so without delay Jack was sent to see the wharf manager , who felt that the sprightly-looking man who had served on the Khyber Pass would suit admirably . |
| 14 | In England a man who had served as a royal official might end as an earl , as did Henry I 's trusted adviser Aubrey de Vere . |
| 15 | The tall black man who had emerged from the Lincoln was dressed in a dark blue three-piece suit that looked incongruously heavy for such a hot day . |
| 16 | He tried to keep his eyes off the little man who had emerged from the ship . |
| 17 | Diane exchanged a couple of words and a smile with a young man who had emerged from a side door carrying a clipboard and what looked like a litre bottle of clear water . |
| 18 | The Leader , following in the track of the horses , went some paces ahead scanning the forest on either side ; behind him followed Hugh , walking close by Marian 's side ; still further back , together but with the width of the track between them , were Michael and the thin man ; and bringing up the rear was Crane , the young man who had run after the horses . |
| 19 | It told the story of a man who had searched for happiness on an island like Koraloona , only to be disillusioned , yet unable to tear himself away . |
| 20 | Endill had been dragging an ironing-board back from a room where everything was half buried in the floor when , turning a corner , he bumped into a tall thin man who had appeared from nowhere . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He asked whether the police had got the man who had done in MacQuillan . |
| 23 | He knew Alice James would identify Drew as the man who had seen near Oliver 's shop just after six , covered in blood . |
| 24 | The first time I stood up to cross-examine the CEGB 's opening witness , Derek Davis — the man who had said in 1952 that there was ‘ no strong local opposition ’ to Hinkley C — I felt as though I was floundering in a mess of unthought-out quibbles . |
| 25 | Quite apart from his own necessities , Gould was beleaguered by requests from acquaintances to deliver letters to people in Sydney , even to trace a young man who had gone to Australia three years earlier and had not been heard of for more than a year . |
| 26 | Suddenly there was a faint ring on the bell downstairs , and Toby came in — the man who had gone with Bill Sikes and Oliver to rob the house in Chertsey . |
| 27 | There was just one way he , as a man who had risen to eminence in his profession , had learned to do things . |
| 28 | Upon her death the property was bought by Matthew Lath , a man who had risen from humble origins through hard work and good fortune . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Walsh was a man who had surfaced in public life before . |