Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A man who felt he had been victimized by a crime and who wished to have the perpetrators punished could accuse the person or persons whom he suspected before either a justice of the peace or a police magistrate . |
| 32 | Though when , clearly a man who felt he had no need to underline anything , by his very silence he made her believe it , she was back to hating him with a vengeance . |
| 33 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
| 34 | Anthony Fox , whose elderly parents were shot dead in their Moy home by loyalist gunmen last year , says he was relaxing on a sun-kissed balcony in Mallorca when he was approached by a man who asked him to contact MI5 in London . |
| 35 | Pensively I roamed through a housing estate , stopped by a bearded man who asked me if I knew where Number Fifty was . |
| 36 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 37 | And , it was the attitude of the other men going to a , play another school , I came across this man who asked me who the referee was on that particular day ? |
| 38 | While I was sitting there , sipping my glass of hot , sweet Indian tea , I was approached by a shifty-looking man who asked me whether I could help him ; he had seen me with my camera ; could I help him mend his ? |
| 39 | Married to the first man who asked you , and I bet you 've never even thought of being unfaithful , even with that hunk Martin hanging around . ’ |
| 40 | The reason it was suffering a decline was because its product was no longer meeting the aspirations of the young mums in this country , and while other companies were improving their product ranges Mothercare had become stuck in a groove , because the very competent man who ran it really did n't know how to go about improving the product . |
| 41 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 42 | He was always preaching there , he he he was the man who ran it . |
| 43 | All she could do was to give Adam the completed programs , and then keep as far away as possible from Lynx and the man who ran it . |
| 44 | Campus talks to the man who sent them , one of the University 's longest serving members of staff , Walter Abbott , who retires this year . |
| 45 | The man who sent you ? ’ |
| 46 | It was shaming enough to be so acutely aware of a man who despised her , and whom she hated , but to actually yield — |
| 47 | Enough to remind her of the consequences of submitting so easily to a man who despised her . |
| 48 | But if she let fitzAlan carry her off and marry her she would be completely powerless against a man who despised her . |
| 49 | How could she , even fleetingly , entertain such a thought for a man who despised her so deeply and so openly ? |
| 50 | More recently , the concept of ‘ going native ’ in the Washington bureaucracy , referring to the tendency of officials appointed ( directly or indirectly ) by the president to adopt the values of the bureaus to which they are appointed rather than those of the man who appointed them , is a further example of the importance of socialisation factors as a source of values . |
| 51 | He is a small but forceful creature who survived the untimely death of the man who manipulated him so brilliantly and went on to forge an equally close bond with a second partner . |
| 52 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 53 | When the Sergeant or Corporal entered , the man who saw them first would call out , ‘ Garde à vous ’ ( attention ) , to which the Sergeant would reply , ‘ Au repos ’ ( at ease ) . |
| 54 | Then we had a telephone call from a man who saw you in a hotel here . ’ |
| 55 | Jack Owen was a sturdy , pleasant-looking man who greeted her in friendly fashion , though there was a hint of embarrassment in his manner . |
| 56 | This empowered him to send bailiffs ( county court employees ) to the house of the man who owed him money and had made no reply to his allegations . |
| 57 | She stood up and grinned at the old man who owed her his life . |
| 58 | Montague , meanwhile , who was only a party to the takeover , appears to have come off better than the man who masterminded it . |
| 59 | He was beginning to look like a man who wished he smoked . |
| 60 | For seventeen , he was big and heavily built , but the man who carried him was so tall and held his weight so easily that there was no doubt who he was . |