Example sentences of "man [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So why has n't a man caught you ? ’ |
| 2 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
| 3 | Hearing that man made me glad I was 64 , which fact gave me a sporting chance of dying a natural death before the inevitable holocaust . |
| 4 | But supposing … the thought of another man made her give an incredulous little shake of the head . |
| 5 | How could it be that this one man made her feel like this ? |
| 6 | His liking for the man made him uncomfortably aware of the similarity in their jobs . |
| 7 | And Rob Thomas 's description of the man made him seem a fugitive , not a killer . |
| 8 | It was also clear that something about the young man made him intensely uncomfortable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is unacceptable , man made them and therefore has the right to modify or discard them . |
| 11 | She swears the man made it sound convincingly official , knew what to say . |
| 12 | But when he was a man grown he returned again to the city of Skadar , and the place where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 13 | A man called him the devil , some parents shouted ‘ We Want Joe ’ and the talk was all about condoms , AIDS and innocence . |
| 14 | Had the man overheard her talking to Kenny ? |
| 15 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 16 | How had this man found her ? |
| 17 | Greater unity would strengthen the weakest link in the chain , the village minister : ‘ When sneerers and wonderers ask [ him ] , ‘ Hath any man brought him ought to eat ? ’ it will soon be made clear that good men eat at the table of Divine plenteousness . ’ |
| 18 | The tall man fixed him with his cold eyes . |
| 19 | My men called her something else when they started going down with the ‘ clap ’ , but she was long gone by the time they found out . ’ |
| 20 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |