Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the gothic-arch pigeon hole , counting out change , she saw the man in boots , the man who had hung about at Faith 's funeral . |
| 2 | He was the Republicans ' defeated presidential candidate in 1960 , and the man who had stomped out of a press conference in 1962 when he failed to win the governorship of California , telling the reporters that they would n't ‘ have Nixon to kick around any more ’ . |
| 3 | A mechanic contracted to the RAC arrived within an hour , she claimed , but went to help a man who had broken down after her . |
| 4 | Taken aback , she could only stare in wide-eyed silence at the man who had materialised out of nowhere at her side . |
| 5 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 6 | She made it her rule that Belfast , the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army , casual atrocities never crossed her lips , not after his last trip away , because the man who had come back to her from Northern Ireland had been frightened of his own shadow . |
| 7 | He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows . |
| 8 | It is about a man who gets fed up with the New York rat race and forsakes advertising to buy a Gendamerie in Provence . |
| 9 | It was well for Breeze that all the holidays she had spent in St Petrock 's had accustomed her to invalids — but even so , she had never seen anybody who looked as ill as the old , old man who lay propped up on cushions in the corner facing the engine . |
| 10 | It certainly was a disgusting display from a man who has bowed out from the game very publicly . |
| 11 | Menzies asked a grey-haired man who stood bundled up in his plaid , tall and erect as though he was ready to take root . |
| 12 | He listened to Nigel Cramer for several minutes , nodded and gave his own orders to the dozen men who had clambered out of the second and third helicopters . |
| 13 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 14 | Many of the mourners were young men who had grown up with her sons . |
| 15 | Without raising his head , the Doctor threw the car into reverse , inadvertently hitting one of the Luger-toting men who had stepped out behind them . |
| 16 | Although Gundovald received open support from men who had fallen out with Guntram , or who had been left without a patron at Chilperic 's death , Theodore of Marseilles claimed that he had been ordered to receive Gundovald by Childebert 's magnates . |
| 17 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |