Example sentences of "man who [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an interview about 10 years ago but they chose the man who would n't upset anyone — Ron Greenwood . |
| 2 | MARTY ROEBUCK might look like a man who would n't say ‘ boo ’ to a goose , but his slight frame hides a huge heart . |
| 3 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 4 | He was a man who would n't take no for an answer . |
| 5 | A man who would not love his father 's grave is worse than a wild animal . |
| 6 | In his reasoning he referred to Augustine 's assertion that God could make a perfect man who would not wish to sin . |
| 7 | And the reason he remains friends with his ex-wives and lovers is that he 's a man 's man , essentially , he 's not the sort of man who would not have women friends around him unless they had , in some way , been involved with him . |
| 8 | And he would be a man who would not try to trample on her . |
| 9 | On Wednesday , Paddy Ashdown played the tough talker , the straight man who wo n't soften the harsh realities — though those realities immediately turn out to be the same smooth bribes offered by every other politician . |
| 10 | He was like a schoolboy , never mind that I was behaving like a schoolgirl , I can not stand a man who ca n't cope with me … |
| 11 | I 'M SURE the rest of Britain is wondering like me how a man who ca n't manage his own personal finances is running the country 's economy . |
| 12 | ‘ Dr Mortimer is clearly a man who will not waste our time . ’ |
| 13 | When Grimes steps into the witness box , the veiled string texture and weary cross-rhythms in the bass tell us before he has opened his mouth that here is a man who will not fit into conventional social patterns . |
| 14 | Another advertisement figured in the speech by Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , who parodied a British Medical Association poster which asked : ‘ What do you call a man who will not take medical advice … |
| 15 | The minister asked the conference : ‘ What do you call a man who will not take medical advice … healthy . ’ |
| 16 | It is the man who will not submit to God who is most compulsively aware of his reality . |
| 17 | But a young man who will not risk his life even once is both a fool and a coward . ’ |
| 18 | The story began last summer when a 42-year-old man who could n't talk and could barely move his fingers was admitted to the medical center . |
| 19 | With exquisite logic , Sonic Boom is on the panel , a man who could n't stop talking , I 'm sure , if he could be bothered to open his mouth in the first place . |
| 20 | Amiss directed ferocious attention towards his tray , giving a spirited impression of a man who could n't eat and listen at the same time . |
| 21 | Jimmy Smith polled ten per cent … surprisingly he was beaten by Steve Coppell … but the top two were way ahead … second big Billy Hamilton the ex United striker … and top by a long way the man who could n't live at the Manor with the Maxwells … |
| 22 | He still told jokes , but they were the jokes of a man who could n't see anything funny any more , the jokes of a man with one eye on the door . |
| 23 | At the time she 'd put that pass down to a reflex action of a man who could n't let any opportunity pass him by , but now she was beginning to have doubts that he was as shallow as she 'd first thought . |
| 24 | Quite how a man who could not bear to hurt a living thing after seeing the damage his childhood air-rifle did to a starling could serve as defence secretary is something of an enigma . |
| 25 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 26 | This last project is an embarrassingly inappropriate tribute to a man who could not identify any plants , trees or birds that he saw on his journeys except by such vapid statements as ‘ big and little birds of all sorts ’ , ‘ trees very green ’ , and ‘ many trees very different from ours . ’ |
| 27 | To my surprise this man who could not swim a stroke had covered a quarter of a mile towards Malta , judging by the fluorescine trail . ’ |
| 28 | Bush , the man who could not handle domestic politics , could not cope with his Republican Party in the budget , had displayed not the slightest interest in the worsening problems of poverty in the United States , could be freed to play war . |
| 29 | Other travellers thought he was half mad or a man who could not forget some terrible crime . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , knowledge seeped out ; not least because both the Iran and contra operations , however much compartmented and closely held , were run by a man who could not resist talking about them . |