Example sentences of "man who have [been] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Alejandro Bendana from the Foreign Ministry , a man who had been skilfully avoiding my calls for days . |
| 2 | It was a melody she had always loved ; now , in this packed cellar , played by this golden-skinned Dane who both intrigued and irritated her , it took on an even deeper significance , melting her bones , flowing through her , drawing her senses towards the man who had been yesterday 's stranger . |
| 3 | We come closer to contemporary retirement with the second Roberts grandfather , a man who had been much less successful at work , and after failing as a shopkeeper had nearly failed as a farmer until his son took over . |
| 4 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 5 | ‘ Where there 's money to be made you can bet there 's someone making it , ’ said an old man who 'd been silently working his spindle since the conversation began . |
| 6 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 7 | They were both amazed to find that because of the war scare young men who had been quite content to go out with them on their terms suddenly wanted to start serious courting . |
| 8 | This is why men who have been deeply hurt in an extra marital affair often have a compulsion when it ends to tell all to their wives in a great burst of weeping . |