Example sentences of "man who [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well can you explain please as the man who devised these charges and assessed them and work them out how by some process of reason anybody reading that sentence gets the clue that when it says management charges will rise at a rate below the level of inflation , it refers to one pound fifty nine , how can you understand that ? |
| 2 | Vancouver had its share of unusual ‘ characters ’ one of these being ‘ Professor ’ Francis , a tall rather unkempt and unshaven man who spent many hours in the CBC studio lobby watching the rehearsals or broadcasts through the plate glass windows . |
| 3 | ‘ Are n't you the young man who spent some weeks with the research unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases ? ’ |
| 4 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 5 | WHEN police swooped on the Pan Africanist Congress on May 25th , arresting 70 of its members , including seven members of its national executive , the man who suffered most embarrassment was Roelf Meyer . |
| 6 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
| 7 | Unlike Dönitz , he was a highly cultivated man who had much charm , spoke fluent , conversational English and was quite at home with the microphone . |
| 8 | This from a man who had little interest in the event when he went up to Magdalene College last autumn to study transport and marketing — and the Boat Race is a triumph of both these days . |
| 9 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |
| 10 | I stood outside my community , like the man who took many steps on Sabbath ’ ; ( concluding ) ‘ I will never be free from this tyranny . ’ |
| 11 | Dad Tam : " You promise me you will never tell anybody " til " am deed that I stood for the man who made that statue . " |
| 12 | These are likenesses of the man who committed those attacks . |
| 13 | Both his Chancellors — the two most important figures in the Conservative Party — thought of him , not as a man of promise , but as a man who deserved some reward by virtue of his service . |
| 14 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 15 | ‘ If you know the man who owned this house , you had better come inside , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The man who played that part was Norman Lumsden , and I bumped into him when he was in Belfast last Friday to present the awards at an Action MS reception , sponsored by British Telecom . |
| 17 | The man who offered this piece of advice turned out to be Lord Cole , who was chairman of Unilever at the time and went on to be chairman of Rolls-Royce and several other major companies . |
| 18 | It was , in fact , the professional warrener , the man who became each estate 's killing machine , who perfected the various sporting methods that exist today and who honed them to their maximum effectiveness . |
| 19 | Unknown to the man who won more downhills than any other racer in history , the local ski patrol spent most of the night clearing snow by hand from the third tee and green at the local golf course in Copper Creek , the highest 18-hole golf course in North America , so that he could play golf on his birthday . |
| 20 | ‘ It is absolutely crystal clear that he is the man who did these things , ’ said Mr Brown . |
| 21 | The local man who promoted this match was George Dingley , an entrepreneur and referee , who , with Wilson and Lynch , developed great enthusiasm for boxing among people on the Clyde . |
| 22 | As long as at least 6,000 valid ostraka were handed in , the man who gained most votes was forced to leave Attica for 10 years , though not in dishonour ( he was still allowed , for example , to draw income from his properties , and he returned a free citizen when his time was up ) . |
| 23 | He 's the man who built this house then gambled it away . |
| 24 | By the time of Pompey , the distinction between the powers granted to an office and the authority of the man who held that office had begun to blur . |
| 25 | Her father was kindness itself , but he was the sort of man who gave little credit to anyone who had fallen from grace . |
| 26 | In many ways Garner was the model professional , totally dedicated and loyal to his teams , an intelligent man who gave much thought to his game . |
| 27 | With special attention to the man who created that colossus — Franklin D. Hauser . ’ |