Example sentences of "man [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lahr wrote the story , Ken insisted on a line in which the man asked him to ‘ give me a fuck ’ being removed . |
| 2 | This was how the man repaid him … ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Your servant was the last man to see him alive . |
| 5 | The old man led him through a gate on the opposite side of the yard from the stable-block . |
| 6 | Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST . |
| 7 | So the old man let him go , but with a heavy heart . |
| 8 | When 10-year-old Robert left his school gates , a man approached him saying that he was a family friend and that his mother had asked him to pick Robert up from school . |
| 9 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 10 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 11 | But he sat there three hours on the motorway waiting for the bloody A A man to find him and , apparently he did n't find it , could n't find him sa cos he rang back he said , look there 's no one come yet ! |
| 12 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 13 | Ten years ago , when Davey Boy was a mere unknown moving to America and desperate to make a name for himself , the Hit Man helped him on the ladder to success . |
| 14 | The man told him in sarcastic tones that he could have his £9 back at any time if he brought in the young lady in the photograph . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're jumpy , my friend , ’ the big man told him . |
| 16 | So the man told him to be down there the same time next night and he returned . |
| 17 | A security man working at the centre said the injured man told him one of the gunmen put a sub-machine gun to his head , but that it had failed to go off . |
| 18 | ‘ I have , ’ the young man told him , and , although he smiled , Ashley knew he was in deadly earnest . |
| 19 | He talked about getting married — of course he did not know the man recognised him , although it is not far from Rostock , where he lived then . |
| 20 | His liking for the man made him uncomfortably aware of the similarity in their jobs . |
| 21 | And Rob Thomas 's description of the man made him seem a fugitive , not a killer . |
| 22 | It was also clear that something about the young man made him intensely uncomfortable . |
| 23 | Corbett felt as if he was in a nightmare ; the very smallness of the man made him a false opponent , almost cutting off Corbett 's blood lust and desire to protect himself . |
| 24 | The man ignored him , his attention on Midnight . |
| 25 | The man ignored him and carried on talking to Michael . |
| 26 | Timothy addressed him , gesturing , but the old man ignored him . |
| 27 | It follows that it is reasonable to assume that a unit of goodness can exist in the mind of man to aid him in understanding the origin of his God , just as the scientific unit aids human thought directed towards physical activity . |
| 28 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 29 | The man reassuring him is , or has the authority of , the omniscient and omnipotent novelist . |
| 30 | The gigantic man turned him slowly , against the tide of people pressing to the epicentre , and planted him squarely on his feet . |