Example sentences of "a man they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 2 | GAMBIAN police have named a man they want to question about the murder of a British conservation worker who was killed in a game reserve in December . |
| 3 | TWO PEOPLE were charged last night with terror offences in London while police hunting the killers of a soldier in Derby named a man they wanted for questioning . |
| 4 | ‘ What did he look like , this Friar ? ’ demanded a man they called Crane . |
| 5 | A man they have here in the tank |
| 6 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 7 | Those who attend will be there because Chris Eubank is a man they love to hate . |
| 8 | It is disturbing to think any of them are in a position of influence in the education field since to a man they seem only capable of talking in cliche-riddled sentences or civil service speak . |
| 9 | POLICE last night named a man they want to quiz in connection with the murder of Michael Huntington at a nurses ' home party 11 days ago . |
| 10 | Almost to a man they were against the new phenomenon of the movies and they made no effort to include them in their ‘ night-time ’ world . |
| 11 | Almost to a man they were cut down . |
| 12 | Their joints were swollen with rheumatism , their eyes were dimmed with years , to a man they were short of breath and their hands trembled ; one old gentleman believed himself to be again taking part in the French wars , another that he was encamped before Sebastopol . |
| 13 | Bonnie Prince Charlie had a price of thirty thousand pounds on his head when he was being ferried hither and yon across many isles and sea-lochs of the Hebrides , and yet , and yet — the people of the west , such as Flora Macdonald and Malcolm Macleod of Raasay , risked their lives for a man they must have known in their hearts was a lost cause . |
| 14 | This is a man they could n't put down — Arnold Schwarzenegger in ‘ The Terminator ’ … the guy in the white hat in ‘ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . ’ |
| 15 | There is a man they meet , an American who has lived here many years , they deal through him . |
| 16 | And yo when I look back an and er and think of even when I first started nursing a lot of the girls we used to get in , they thought if they kissed a man they were going to have a baby . |
| 17 | They just r r rammed their way and you had an man the they had a man they tell me I I 've never seen one But erm this was as far as I can make out er by the They had a man standing by you see with a a spanner and er gave it a quarter turn every time it hammered the the drill sort of hit the rock , went into the and hammered . |
| 18 | No , if they want to flush him out of hiding , there 's hardly a man they could use but Hotspur . ’ |
| 19 | They are particularly anxious to hear from a man they think may have witnessed one attack . |
| 20 | But it was not a man they had ever seen before . |
| 21 | One supports that I lay in the street looking and waiting for a a man they mention tonight and that man is a well known killer of British soldiers . |
| 22 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 23 | Police have released a photofit of a man they believe carried out an armed raid on an estate agents . |
| 24 | Detectives are tonight still questioning a man they arrested on Saturday night . |
| 25 | Police have taken the unusual step of naming and releasing the photograph of a man they wish to question in connection with an alleged double rape of a teenager . |
| 26 | Police have released a series of security photos of a man they believe has carried out more than twenty armed raids . |
| 27 | Police have released a series of security photos of a man they believe has robbed more than twenty building societies . |
| 28 | Police have released a video fit picture of a man they want to question in connection with three sex-attacks in Oxford . |
| 29 | But the people of Princes Risborough can now point to a permanent reminder of a man they have never forgotten . |
| 30 | DETECTIVES investigating a building society robbery will go on national television tonight to name a man they want to question . |