Example sentences of "man who take " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 2 | Now it is the age of fulfilled man who takes in all the Trinity and becomes one with them . |
| 3 | Apple Blossom Afternoon is the funny and moving story of an ordinary man who takes a gamble with extraordinary results . |
| 4 | What I do n't want is a man who takes me out for a meal , buys a bottle of cheap plonk and expects payment in the form of instant sex , either in the back of his car , or if he gets really lucky , in my flat . |
| 5 | But sometimes , in porn , it is the dominant man who takes his domination to the extreme and kills the woman : in Norman Mailer 's The American Dream , the woman — the slave — dies . |
| 6 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 7 | If you follow football you will already know that a substitute is a man who takes the place of another player . |
| 8 | ‘ The man who takes offence at it is a fool indeed . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Ledingham is married to a man who takes care of everything . |
| 10 | He 's not a man who takes kindly to being henpecked . |
| 11 | A pain in the neck for the man who takes her — Oh my daughter ! |
| 12 | The sort of man who takes an old woman for everything she has . |
| 13 | I stood outside my community , like the man who took many steps on Sabbath ’ ; ( concluding ) ‘ I will never be free from this tyranny . ’ |
| 14 | World champion for 10 years between 1975 and 1985 , he has , since losing the title , been doggedly pursuing the man who took it from him , Garry Kasparov . |
| 15 | Despite his flair and populism , he was a cautious man who took great comfort from the fact that his son had not become a footballer but was securely settled in the middle class as a solicitor . |
| 16 | THE man who took office as President of Panama early yesterday morning was popularly elected last spring but had to wait more than six months before being thrust into power by the United States . |
| 17 | Otherwise , despite the rubble around him , he will have emerged from the war as an Arab hero , the man who took on and defied the Zionists , westerners and other infidels , and who will inevitably try to do it all again . |
| 18 | Is this the man who took the little orphaned son of the brigand Dhoondiah Waugh into his household after he was found hiding on the battlefield amongst the baggage of his defeated father ? |
| 19 | DAVID FRENCH is the man who took over the Marriage Guidance Council , renamed it Relate and persuaded the Princess of Wales to become its patron , thus demonstrating that he was both tough and persuasive . |
| 20 | Gordon Welchman in The Hut Six Story tells an amusing yarn about the man who took over the administration of the ‘ highly intelligent female staff ’ of the Decoding Room and the Registration Room , and whom I grew to know quite well : |
| 21 | Frank Bainbridge , the same man who took the calves to market , once again organized the necessary procedure . |
| 22 | Moreover there were functions which only the lord himself could carry out , particularly in matters of justice , for as a baron of Scotland , Ramsay had the power of pit and gallows , conferring on him the right and duty to adjudicate in most issues not reserved to the crown , a grave responsibility for a man who took his obligations seriously , and one in which his brother could not replace him . |
| 23 | There will be at least two of them , but even if they know each other they wo n't know anybody else except the one man who took them on and will eventually pay them . |
| 24 | Think of Woody Guthrie and you 're back in the presidential alley once more , for America 's folk hero was named after Woodrow Wilson , the man who took the USA into World War I after attempting to keep his country neutral , a 1916 song claiming ‘ He Kept Us Out The War ’ , though a later ragtime hit contained the lyric : ‘ We 're going to celebrate the end of the war in ragtime — be sure that Woodrow Wilson leads the band . ’ |
| 25 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 26 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 27 | James Boughey was another military man who took her out to restaurants and the theatre and Diana visited Simon Berry and Adam Russell at their rented house on the Blenheim estate when they were undergraduates at Oxford . |
| 28 | But above all he is the man who took on Chanel , the greatest fashion legend of the twentieth century . |
| 29 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |
| 30 | The doctor who attended Sarah went into the forces and the elderly man who took his place discharged her as fit for work . |