Example sentences of "a man had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody in ‘ our town ’ feels indignant about the insult to the respected old gentleman , and a proposal gets off the ground to give a subscription dinner in his honour ; but finally ‘ we ’ think better of it , ‘ perhaps realizing at last that a man had , after all , been pulled by the nose , so there really was n't any cause for a celebration . ’ |
| 2 | And then in his soul would succeed a sort of despair , because this passion for a man had recurred in him . |
| 3 | Generous to a fault , and if he was n't always strictly above-board-well , a man had to live . |
| 4 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 5 | Lineage solidarity was perhaps the reason people told an idealized history , one consisting of the rights and duties a man had and met , rather than the devices he had to resort to , to survive . |
| 6 | If a man had a ‘ call ’ to a chapel he could become a minister without any denominational approval and with no educational qualifications required . |
| 7 | A man had shot a woman , buried her body in the sands , had been caught and hung for his crime . |
| 8 | As Mr. Micawber said ‘ If a man had twenty pounds a year for his income , and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence , he would be happy , but if he spent twenty pounds one , he would be miserable ’ . |
| 9 | There was a similar reaction after several bodies went missing from Britain 's biggest cemetery in Surrey in April 1988 , even after a man had been arrested and charged for decapitating a disinterred corpse . |
| 10 | Nobody applied the term ‘ silly season ’ to the news that a man had got into Buckingham Palace and had a chat with the Queen , sitting on the edge of her bed . |
| 11 | I could n't hold the car on the clutch and I rolled back down the hill , getting very embarrassed , especially when a man had to help me push the car up the hill again ! |
| 12 | James Halden was hastening towards the Bagnigge Wells Road when he heard the cry that a man had fallen in the furnace at Smith 's . |
| 13 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |
| 14 | If she heard on the News that a man had been murdered here , she might have thought it was me . |
| 15 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 16 | Edouard , if a man had to be responsible for every little by-blow , where would it end ? |
| 17 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 18 | And on Christmas Day night Harriet and a man had been locked in passionate embrace behind those windows and she , Meredith , had glimpsed them . |
| 19 | He tried to imagine how she might be thinking : the sudden joy that the impossible had happened , that a man had returned from the dead . |
| 20 | A man had brought in the suitcases and stood them in the middle of the floor . |
| 21 | In other incidents a man had the tops of his fingers sliced off , another broke a wrist and a third suffered a heart attack . |
| 22 | The limbless barrel of a man had been removed from his bronze flowerpot , freed from the loam of lead . |
| 23 | The door was open , and the crumpled figure of a man had toppled from the passenger seat into the road . |
| 24 | A man had died through him , that 's what she said . ’ |
| 25 | A man had climbed out of the car . |
| 26 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 27 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | The woman columnist at the Star argued that the judge as a man had no real understanding of what the girls had suffered and had unjustifiably let the youths off lightly with seven-year and three-year prison sentences . |
| 30 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |