Example sentences of "man who [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Those who walked the perimeter path went behind him , and no one spoke to the man who gazed at the wall that held him .
2 His findings include a confession from a man who shot at the UN plane minutes before it crashed .
3 A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money .
4 Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car .
5 When he did , the prim man who worked at the counter often inspected them and said , ‘ I doubt if this will come out , sir , but we 'll do our best . ’
6 I SAID to the man who stood at the gate of the year , ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown ’ .
7 He stood in the damp boots that leaked the snow wet to his socks , and he hated the man who sat at the desk .
8 The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life .
9 They possessed a faint whiff of humour , those men who sat at the ankles of Iosif .
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