Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is natural that any suggestion of lack of … of affection for this child should so upset a man who is of the highest integrity — ’ |
| 2 | Their conversation was interrupted by the familiar sound of a girl 's badly-acted laughter from behind the bead curtain which led to the interior of the brothel , punctuated by the growling of a man who is under the illusion that he is cock of the dunghill . |
| 3 | It signals the transformation of the large , lucid Great Sinner into the man who is beyond definition and self-definition , beyond calling himself bored , and whose actions — whether he is biting an ear or enduring a punch in the face or hanging by a well-soaped rope — explain nothing and nobody . |
| 4 | And Hopkins grins like a man who is at last easy in his skin . |
| 5 | ‘ Tomorrow morning , ’ he said , ‘ I have to make my closing speech in defence of a man who is on a murder charge , and whom I know for certain to be innocent . |
| 6 | The law says nothing as to a woman who has sexual intercourse with a man who is in a similar situation . |
| 7 | The man who is in charge of that ( and who appears in action in BBC 's ‘ Vietnam — The country not the war ’ ) is Professor Vo Quy of Hanoi University . |
| 8 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 9 | That threw a man who is by nature unflappable : ‘ I do n't remember what I answered ’ , said Dean , ‘ but I know what I felt like saying : ‘ You tell me ’ . |
| 10 | He is a man who is by nature a Windsor , but who has tried hard to be a Mountbatten . |
| 11 | Scudamore 's friend and partner Nigel Twiston Davies … he does n't like cameras … does n't do interviews … a man of mystery … but a man who 's at one with his world … |
| 12 | True , a haircut , a smattering of designer stubble , the odd earring and a spot of UVA can make a difference , but basically it 's the inner man who 's on display . |
| 13 | It 's about a young man who 's in love with an older woman . |
| 14 | but I only went round Dor Dorman Longs because the man who 's in charge of the labourers who moved all the machinery about er I sort of went with him see I did n't |
| 15 | In a lighter vein — There was once a man who was at work kibble filling . |
| 16 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |
| 17 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 18 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 19 | She said something to the man who was with her , a thickset , dark-featured fellow , who stood with his hands in the pockets of his anorak frowning at the flood water . |
| 20 | But the RUC said last night : ‘ The victim of this foul murder was an entirely innocent man who was on his way to work . |
| 21 | Have you heard of the man who was on two diets ? |
| 22 | And the man who was on the boat with her must be suspect . ’ |
| 23 | A man who was on one of the tours asked me out . |
| 24 | I caught a glimpse of her , eyes red with fury , and I wondered if my last hour had come , but Bill , the man who was on guard , managed to push her back with the aid of a large plank , and she soon quietened down when we passed her babies back . ’ |
| 25 | Anna was raped and strangled by a man who was on bail awaiting trial for rape . |
| 26 | There is no precise moment or position at which one can say of a particular individual that the child has become an adult or that the man who was outside the house is now inside . |
| 27 | He had been a man in authority in his own country , and used to the arrogant assertion of power … and the unquestioning obedience of each and every man who was of lesser rank than him . |
| 28 | Rudd 's promotions were probably attempts to remunerate a man who was of more value to the Tudor state as a cartographer than as a cleric . |
| 29 | It was the signature of a man who was to all intents and purposes illiterate . |
| 30 | Johnson 's prowess was quickly recognised and , when the first representative match was staged between the Southern League and the Football League , on 11 April 1910 at Stamford Bridge ( Y-2 ) , it was our man who was between the posts for the Southern League . |