Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She answered an advert in a lonely hearts column and started an affair with this man who had stated in the ad that he was a good looking 43-year-old bachelor , comfortably off , with car . |
| 2 | She had danced with a man who had danced with a girl , who had danced with the Prince of Wales . |
| 3 | There is no serious challenge to this account and the impression remains that he was not a ‘ madman ’ but a normal man who had met a hitch-hiker who unusually ‘ spurned sex ’ . |
| 4 | At first the information lack had been due to an instinctive veering away from the man who had caused her so much hurt and distress , but now it was more a matter of her rarely spending money on a paper and not having a television . |
| 5 | The man who had raised Irish rally engineering to a higher plain and produced more winning cars than anyone before , headed for Europe with some regrets . |
| 6 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 7 | Behind the gothic-arch pigeon hole , counting out change , she saw the man in boots , the man who had hung about at Faith 's funeral . |
| 8 | Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized . |
| 9 | His fortunes had changed , however , when a man who had befriended her father , Joe Maitland , took him on to manage his warehouse in Dockhead . |
| 10 | The film includes an extraordinary moment when she orders the punishment of a man who had threatened to rape her so that he might never threaten women again |
| 11 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 12 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 13 | For the man who had written the song ‘ My little island girl ’ Lawrence 's blend of the sophisticated with savage sexuality was particularly disturbing . |
| 14 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 15 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 16 | That letter had unnerved her and now she could not face speaking to the man who had written it . |
| 17 | There was a right and wrong way of doing things , and her Libran soul demanded the right way for the man who had lost his life saving theirs . |
| 18 | Was this the same man who had lost all control with her last night ? |
| 19 | Laker was a highly charismatic individual ; a self-made man who had built his airplane business on a visionary self-determination and zeal , a refusal to take no for an answer — all qualities which Branson fancied he could sympathise with . |
| 20 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 21 | Hawk nodded to his father , the man who had tutored him as a Dreamwalker , and was not acknowledged . |
| 22 | ‘ How do you do ? ’ said Julia , realising that she was shaking hands with the man who had sent David to fight with the Italian partisans . |
| 23 | Their fear of the man who had sent them to find her . |
| 24 | The tribunal rules that Barclays discriminated against her by making her retire at 60 , when a man who had joined the bank at the same time could work until 65 . |
| 25 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |
| 26 | He had always preferred to leave that to Nik Powell , or the man who had joined Virgin as financial director on Powell 's departure , Terry Baughan . |
| 27 | Cornelius , the man who had suggested the ill-fated drive to Burford , the man who had stayed behind when the others started back to Oxford , sat before Harry , twenty years on , with a smile on his face that mixed candid reminiscence and flagrant duplicity . |
| 28 | But it was only when he laughed that Boldwood recognized the man who had destroyed his hope and happiness once and was about to do it again . |
| 29 | He was not the man who had destroyed his sister 's life . |
| 30 | Even with the whitewash skeleton painted on to him , Benny had no difficulty recognizing the serpentine man who had kidnapped her from the museum . |