Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atkins and the other man who had been with him during the doorstep confrontation on Boxing Night were waiting . |
| 2 | There was the man who had been with him and taken the briefcase from the hotel room and who in the morning would go back to the Golani Brigade stationed on the Lebanese border and who would be chided by his fellow officers for having taken leave while the military workload was intense . |
| 3 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 4 | They had been followed into the hall by the young man who had been with Dom João on the quay , and Sara felt that other eyes were watching from half-open doors . |
| 5 | Another incident in the same Shop involved a man who had been on a Government course on turning . |
| 6 | It was the slumber of a man who had been at his cups for some considerable time . |
| 7 | I was accorded a degree of respect appropriate to a man who had been under arms , which was as well as , after rumours of my predilections spread through the warehouse , there were not many willing to share with me . |
| 8 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 9 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 10 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 11 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
| 12 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |
| 13 | At the beginning of the fourth month , a young man who had been in only a few days attacked Carter with a knife . |
| 14 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 15 | One man who has been with science for many years now — and his experience certainly tells — is Mick Rhodes , whose new series of QED began last week . |
| 16 | A MAN who has been at the centre of planning in North East Wales for more than 30 years will retire this month from public office , and turn his attention to private consultancy . |
| 17 | The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences . |
| 18 | In the next cell there is a wild-looking man who has been in prison for 8 years , and whose long , unkempt hair has gone white . |
| 19 | The man who emerged was in his late fifties with short grey hair and round , wire-framed glasses . |
| 20 | In fact , you 're a girl who 's going places — once you 've untied yourself from this man who 's been like a millstone around your neck for the last four years . |
| 21 | But it 's the nasty business of disposing of stock , and having to fire men who 've been with me for years . |
| 22 | Workers at a nuclear research plant are being assured they 're NOT in danger of developing prostate cancer , despite a new report claiming an increased risk for men who 've been in contact with radioactive material . |
| 23 | Some of them were loyal and trusted men who had been with the Prince for years and , as well as relying heavily upon them , he liked them . |
| 24 | He had the notion that she was mocking him , and the anger he had felt earlier returned in a different form , a determination to excel , to beat other men who had been with her . |
| 25 | He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night . |
| 26 | He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others . |
| 27 | She wondered about the other men who had been on the plane , and what theirs felt like . |
| 28 | One contrast , however , was that of the thirty-two cardinals created by Innocent nearly 50 per cent were masters ( men who had been at universities ) . |
| 29 | When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together . |
| 30 | Billy Smallbury , one of the men who had been in the cart , climbed up with a bucket of water , to throw water on Gabriel and keep the flames off him . |