Example sentences of "man [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such poem is by Wordsworth , where he repeats the old legend that if anyone approaches the Isle of Man to do it harm , a mist springs up and hides the Island . |
| 2 | A women needs a man to support her . |
| 3 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 4 | Secondly , the attitude that women are on their own only until they find a man to support them is a prevalent one . |
| 5 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 6 | The young man passed it up , the little circlet of gold glistening between the tips of his thick hard fingers . |
| 7 | When Lahr wrote the story , Ken insisted on a line in which the man asked him to ‘ give me a fuck ’ being removed . |
| 8 | One day while out visiting with Father John a man asked me how things were in my country . |
| 9 | ‘ Why are Catholic churches here not so good as Church of Ireland ones ? ’ the man asked me . |
| 10 | When I came to be searched , an earnest young man asked me : ‘ Please could you leave the paper on one side and pick it up afterwards ? ’ |
| 11 | Of course , the old man asked me for my reasons . |
| 12 | He made a commitment , between himself and God , — ( ‘ No man asked me to do it ’ ) — to take up his father 's goal , ‘ a hate-free , fear-free , greed-free Africa , peopled by free men and women . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Man asked me a question , did n't he ? |
| 14 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 15 | And they talked to her , most politely : the Martin man asked her when she was doing her Finals , and she told him , and he asked her what she was going to do then , and she said that she thought she would do a teacher 's training course . |
| 16 | He had no intention absolutely none — of letting any man make her suffer . |
| 17 | Yet how on earth could one man make her feel so threatened ? |
| 18 | The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 'd never let a man knock me about , ’ she said with passion . |
| 20 | So , and she knew about the office , and I knew about the office and knew everything they were wanting me to know but a man got it from outside so |
| 21 | This was how the man repaid him … ’ |
| 22 | I mean , if a man cries he 's considered a wimp ! |
| 23 | I did not want the man to see me until I had looked closely at him . |
| 24 | He held his head defiantly lifted , as if he wished no man to see him in dejection ; somehow I felt the gesture very characteristic , and was able for the first time to recognize his arrogance . |
| 25 | ‘ Your servant was the last man to see him alive . |
| 26 | But it takes the eye of an honest man to see it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Sometimes I think I could make any man fancy me , ’ she told Chat magazine . |
| 28 | And biting back … the Whitesnake man plays it again . |
| 29 | Mr Brewer , said : ‘ I think the man attacked her to try to get the keys to the house . |
| 30 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |