Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young mother says she 's living in fear for her life after a threatening phone call from the man who kidnapped her at gunpoint . |
| 2 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 3 | The XU man who met him was sympathetic , but could not help much . |
| 4 | As she approached County Hall on New Street , she was grabbed from behind by a man who dragged her down an alley . |
| 5 | How could she feel such deep emotions for a man who riled her so easily ? |
| 6 | " As I understand it from Purvis , Madam Marchioness is wallowing in despair because she loved a man who chucked her out . |
| 7 | The taxi driver was a sharp-looking middle-aged man who told me that he was the landlord of the Dove bar in town . |
| 8 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 9 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 10 | ‘ [ The defendant ] is a violent man who told me of his past and of his having shot and killed at least three other men . |
| 11 | The man who told me about them is not afraid because he can do more harm to them than they can inflict on him . ’ |
| 12 | The man who told her he was Jesus Christ , second time around . |
| 13 | He will merely be remembered as the man who told us , as the Minister of Energy during the four-day week in the last days of the Heath government , to clean our teeth in the dark , for heaven 's sake . |
| 14 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
| 15 | The man who told it , an old groom on the estate , was a traditional storyteller . |
| 16 | As Joanna 's family and friends celebrated her safe homecoming , the young man who knew her only from her gym classes said a silent prayer of thanks . |
| 17 | Rune drove well , with the confidence of a man who knew he had nothing to prove about the potential of either himself or his car , Gina conceded as she tried to relax , the soft background music taking the edge off her immediate anxieties about Suzie 's whereabouts and safety . |
| 18 | Even more dangerous , he was a man who knew he could woo . |
| 19 | Today we meet young comedienne Lois Waters and her dad Denny , and tomorrow Chris Boardman talks about the man who spurred him on to Olympic fame . |
| 20 | The man who taught me English could recite Burns by the hour . ’ |
| 21 | His mentor , the man who taught him at university , is married to a woman who is half-Jewish , and their son has worked for Hess for years as his adviser . |
| 22 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 23 | After suggesting the reason for his presence was revenge , he asked , ‘ Has Anna said anything to you about the man who attacked her ? ’ |
| 24 | A TEENAGE horsewoman fought off a man who attacked her on Wimbledon Common yesterday almost a year after young mother Rachel Nickell was stabbed to death in the same area . |
| 25 | DOG SAVES WOMAN : Alsatian saved 27-year-old woman ower by biting man who attacked her with a knife . |
| 26 | And the man who attacked you should feel shame , not you . |
| 27 | It was a ghostly hand holding a lighted candle , and the luckless man who beheld it knew that it was a portent of his death . |
| 28 | It 's a story about God , and about one man who followed Him . |
| 29 | It was the same man who followed me from the doctor 's surgery . |
| 30 | He is the man who followed us in London ! |