Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spike Milligan is a man whom time forgot . |
| 2 | A Mormon FBI man who dropped to his knees at the roadside began to pray . |
| 3 | They could not understand a man who chose privacy rather than the comfort of comradeship and shared pleasures ; who read books on mathematics and astronomy rather than drink in the mess with his fellow-officers . |
| 4 | Obviously a man who chose his words with care . |
| 5 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 6 | A young mother says she 's living in fear for her life after a threatening phone call from the man who kidnapped her at gunpoint . |
| 7 | Steve Biko , a brave and remarkable man who met a tragic death in the course of a patriotic struggle : this is the very stuff of opera . |
| 8 | The XU man who met him was sympathetic , but could not help much . |
| 9 | And in the second incident , they 're also hunting a man who robbed a woman at gunpoint last night . |
| 10 | DETECTIVES hunting a man who robbed a Darlington building society are hoping to have the incident featured on the TV programme Crimewatch . |
| 11 | Neil , a driver/porter , puts his self defence training into practice helping the police arrest a knife-wielding man who robbed Haddows off-licence in Grangemouth of £200 . |
| 12 | I saw one young boy , of thirteen I would say , have his leg broken by one agent — a brute of a man who grinned when the lad cried out . |
| 13 | Sometimes , as the wind blew round the house , I imagined I heard his voice outside , and I thought with horror of the young man who ate boys ' hearts . |
| 14 | Instinct and an adolescence spent in observation rather than practice told her this was the kind of man who ate little girls like Suzie for breakfast . |
| 15 | GRAHAM GOOCH , the man who dragged English Test cricket out of its stupor , smiles from the dust jacket , his face symbolically dripping sweat . |
| 16 | As she approached County Hall on New Street , she was grabbed from behind by a man who dragged her down an alley . |
| 17 | The man who cost Portsmouth just £450 when they bought him out of the army netted his second hat-trick of the season on Saturday and in turn became leading scorer in the First Division . |
| 18 | The need for confidentiality means that even he — a man who likes to tell it how it really is — clams up about the twilight of his career . |
| 19 | He wo n't do it without help from his manager , a man who likes to present himself as a disciplinarian but who appears powerless to prevent his players misbehaving on the field . |
| 20 | But at Knowsley SSD staff will be pleased to learn their new director , who started this week , is a man who likes gradual , evolutionary change rather than sweeping transformation . |
| 21 | He is a man who likes to please . |
| 22 | You 're not the sort of man who likes to get into trouble , are you ? ’ |
| 23 | This is the man who likes to say yes ! |
| 24 | Or take the man who threatens a woman that unless she submits to intercourse , he will drive to the next town 50 miles away , buy a gun and return and shoot her and her children . |
| 25 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 26 | And the man who wins will probably be the man who sorts out the NSR 's quirky handling . |
| 27 | Collins says of Wilkinson : ‘ Any man who wins two championships in three years must be good — he certainly ca n't be bad ! ’ |
| 28 | How could she feel such deep emotions for a man who riled her so easily ? |
| 29 | It is the type of attitude you would expect from a man who cites Buck Shelford as his role model and who learned his trade in the best of all academies . |
| 30 | " As I understand it from Purvis , Madam Marchioness is wallowing in despair because she loved a man who chucked her out . |