Example sentences of "man who have [be] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one hotel they found a man who had been mugged twice , young people who had been threatened with a knife and a newly-wed husband who had had his wedding ring pulled off his fingers by local thieves . |
| 2 | I once knew a man who had been brought up beside a Patrick 's Well in County Limerick . |
| 3 | The clothes he wore , the cut of his hair , even the subtly elegant watch on his wrist , everything about him seemed to indicate a man who had been brought up to take wealth for granted . |
| 4 | Thus , at Montrose , Boswell took a sharp likeness , in which we see the other side of the opinionated , often pompous , astonishingly patronising Johnson , the man with a statement on everything , the clumping , farting , knob-faced denouncer ; Johnson was also a thoughtful man of good manners and pensiveness , a quiet , reflective , astute man who had been knocked around . |
| 5 | When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there . |
| 6 | Although David Cecil was and always had been a devout Christian , he became the favourite candidate of those who resented the ‘ clerical candidate ’ , the man who had been put up by Lewis , just because he was a Christian . |
| 7 | His eyes were hollow , dark rimmed with fatigue and worry ; his skin was unnaturally pale , the skin of a man who has been kept too long from the light . |