Example sentences of "the man who [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his autobiography , he tries to see how this happened to ‘ the whole man ’ — to the man who had been haunted since youth by a sense of joy ’ , to the man whose love of Autumn , of Northernness , even of his own mother , was always , as he came to feel , a longing for one without whom our hearts will find no rest . |
| 2 | Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian . |
| 3 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 4 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 5 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 6 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 7 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 8 | Most important of all , she was married to the man who had been Paula 's husband . |
| 9 | The man who had been a passenger in the taxi then produced a long-bladed knife and attacked her . |
| 10 | Within minutes the steps were swarming with black-coated , medal-encrusted figures , all on their way to raise double gins to the fond memory of the man who had been a leader in the game of Intelligence . |
| 11 | There was the man who had been with him and taken the briefcase from the hotel room and who in the morning would go back to the Golani Brigade stationed on the Lebanese border and who would be chided by his fellow officers for having taken leave while the military workload was intense . |
| 12 | At 1 p.m. the BBC Home Service reported the execution at Wandsworth and the last public message of the man who had been hanged . |
| 13 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 14 | ‘ The man who had been a rich merchant , and who was now a beggar , had to make brooms for the town . |
| 15 | When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there . |
| 16 | The man who had been seen at the Black Friar with MacQuillan was Ron Barron . |
| 17 | Hareton inherited nothing from his father , and could only stay on at Wuthering Heights as a servant , working for the man who had been his father 's enemy . |
| 18 | Was it possible that Barrymore was in fact the man who had been watching Sir Henry in London ? |
| 19 | I decided I must try to find the man who had been watching us . |
| 20 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |
| 21 | It was a melody she had always loved ; now , in this packed cellar , played by this golden-skinned Dane who both intrigued and irritated her , it took on an even deeper significance , melting her bones , flowing through her , drawing her senses towards the man who had been yesterday 's stranger . |
| 22 | The last thing in the world she needed was to be attracted to the man who had been Elise 's lover — even if he were n't already engaged in a live-in relationship with another woman ! |
| 23 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 24 | Standing at the window in the small front lounge , where a buffet had been laid out for those guests arriving late , or for people who were still hungry , she saw Feargal accompany Phena , and the man who had been her constant companion at the wedding , walk down the path . |
| 25 | What would have happened if the man who had been traduced and vilified had been a village schoolmaster ? |
| 26 | ‘ We think as you 're out o ’ pocket enough , what wi' buyin' the timber , an' it 's to our advantage , ’ a carpenter explained — the man who had been cheated by the coal merchant . |
| 27 | While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room . |
| 28 | One of Al Bowlly 's greatest numbers , ’ he added , mentioning the name of the man who had been England 's most popular crooner until his death . |
| 29 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 30 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |