Example sentences of "man [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 2 | A woman and a man were packing a hamper , blankets and Wellingtons into the car . |
| 3 | Charges against another man were withdrawn . |
| 4 | Two young women and a man were shot dead in a mobile grocery shop in a predominantly Catholic estate on the outskirts of Craigavon in County Armagh on March 28 . |
| 5 | The Leader and the thin man were seated on a pile of saddles and saddle-bags with their backs against the wall . |
| 6 | And when the tailor and the little grey man were consuming the pie , whose warm smell filled the little house , the little grey man said , ‘ Otto was right , you are a good and honest man , and you care — for all the creatures in this place , leaving no one unattended and nothing undone . |
| 7 | The skipper and one other man were convicted of smuggling , each having to pay £1392 , and were gaoled for six months , with a further sentence of six months should the fines be unpaid within three months . |
| 8 | He walked his horse outside the tavern but left Godstowe just before the young woman and man were seen . |
| 9 | Pictures of a man were flashed upon the screen in rapid succession . |
| 10 | ‘ Ah , but , Alice , suppose this young man were to invite you to return to America with him ? |
| 11 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 12 | ‘ He and another man were putting some barrels into that wagon over there . |
| 13 | The matter was reported to the police , but the proceedings against the man were discontinued after he had been charged with kidnapping . |
| 14 | New chemicals synthesized by man were found sometimes to have effects on the mind . |
| 15 | On one such occasion , when the head keeper and a young man were leading Joicey to safety , Joicey turned to the youngster and inquired : ‘ Have you the Gaelic , lad , have you the Gaelic ? ’ |
| 16 | One or two offered sympathy and would have taken her along with them , but she stayed on with her head bowed until only Sarah and the fair-haired man were left . |
| 17 | Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 18 | Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 19 | A girl and a man were working it , faces transparent from fatigue . |
| 20 | The bones of Halling Man were removed and sent to Professor Arthur Keith the foremost archaeologist of his day who later as Sir Arthur Keith , was to write a whole chapter in his book The Antiquity of Man 1915 , on Halling Man . |
| 21 | It was a very cold morning , the sky bright and without a cloud , but Silver and his man were standing in a low mist . |
| 22 | At one wedding the bridegroom and best man were standing on the wrong place , with the best man prompting a tongue-tied groom in a stage whisper . |
| 23 | During the late 1920s and early 1930s when John Maynard Keynes ( 1883–1946 ) was working out a new economic system where government intervention would stabilise the negative effects of free enterprise — low investment , acute unemployment — individualist man and collectivist man were fighting it out for supremacy . |
| 24 | The Leader and the thin man were advancing cautiously on the remaining horses which were standing restless , uncertain and in need of quieting . |
| 25 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 26 | She and her mystery man were spotted outside her parents ' home in Fulham , west London . |
| 27 | And Man were playing . |
| 28 | John Evans , 112 , Britain 's oldest man was asked to give evidence at a public inquiry to help prove a footpath linking Fforest-fach and Gowerton in West Glamorgan , has always been public . |
| 29 | Graham Gauld , a public relations man was asked by a friend at SDA if he could help . |
| 30 | The tall man was racked with self-disgust . |