Example sentences of "of a man who have " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday , though , Watt 's comments on Chris Eubank 's latest bore left a disturbing impression of a man who 'd received instructions by his ITV masters not to forget that they had a product to sell . |
| 2 | A short film would be shown of a man who 'd lost his memory through a cerebral stroke at the age of twenty-three , and was learning to programme his life so he could live alone , and then I would speak about the day-to-day struggle of living with someone who is in no-man 's world without reference and without time . |
| 3 | He had the look of a man who 'd been pacing about restlessly , his tie loose about his throat , his shirt collar undone . |
| 4 | Being Irish herself , and the sister of a man who had gone mad with syphilis , she was rather more tolerant of Warnie 's foibles than he was of hers . |
| 5 | Dalglish wore the demeanour of a man who had just discovered the cat had been sick in his slippers . |
| 6 | That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing . |
| 7 | But it should be remembered that his was an extremely impassioned and subjective response of a man who had fought in Spain , toured some of the depressed North and committed himself to the increasing intellectual and left-wing policies of the Independent Labour Party . |
| 8 | In Court ( 1988 ) the House of Lords upheld the conviction of a man who had spanked a young girl several times on the seat of her shorts . |
| 9 | It was the slumber of a man who had been at his cups for some considerable time . |
| 10 | Her ultimate choice was surprising , for Philippe Le Bas was the son of a man who had sat in the Convention of 1793 and who had never renounced the republican ethos in which his father had brought him up . |
| 11 | During restoration in the house , a skeleton was discovered of a man who had been buried standing upright . |
| 12 | The screams of a man who had tried to cut his throat . |
| 13 | The way I saw it , Neil Kinnock replied to the Budget with the look of a man who had got out to bat against Curtly Ambrose , only to discover , as he took a particularly nasty delivery in the meat-and-two-veg , that he had left his box in the pavilion . |
| 14 | For example , Mr Clinton recently OK 'd the execution of a man who had committed murder . |
| 15 | She was now a married woman or , rather , widow , ostensibly carrying the child of a man who had been killed in action . |
| 16 | Inside was the body of a man who had been shot through the mouth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The report on the coarse wares is very illuminating for the views at that time of a man who had spent a lifetime handling pottery . |
| 19 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |
| 20 | Mother and son alike became the passive , helpless witnesses to the demise , fall and dissolution of a man who had given direction to them both . |
| 21 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 22 | It is a remarkable picture of a man who had experienced all sorts of difficulties and dangers … but was determined to go on . |
| 23 | Paul 's words and Paul 's example present us with a picture of a God who is the source of peace , and of a man who had learnt that God 's peace was on tap at all times . |
| 24 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 25 | Particularly when it was discovered — as it would be — that she was the mother of a bastard child , the daughter of a man who had left Frizingley heavily in debt , and had already been dismissed by Miss Ernestine Baker for her loose behaviour in a public street . |
| 26 | A nun told us , for example , of a man who had seen a massacre take place in his village . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah ’ Rogers drank his drink with the air of a man who had found out why Norfolk people play so little cricket . |
| 28 | The film includes an extraordinary moment when she orders the punishment of a man who had threatened to rape her so that he might never threaten women again |
| 29 | Paramedics and police officers were called to a house in Devonshire Road , Darlington , yesterday morning to try and save the life of a man who had fallen downstairs . |
| 30 | CRAIG CHALMERS had the look of a man who had completed a job well-done . |