Example sentences of "man [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her sister rang to say he fitted the description of a wanted man given on BBC TV 's Crimewatch UK , he told her : ‘ Do n't be silly ’ . |
| 2 | Man remanded on Dart murder charge |
| 3 | Cookstown man remanded on bail |
| 4 | Man remanded on murder charge |
| 5 | Charmed in spite of his suspicion that all this was nothing more than an elaborate strategy to get the best strawberries , the young man leaned on his fork . |
| 6 | The man leaned on the topmost rung of the pig-pen , making it clear that Francis would have to approach . |
| 7 | Man quizzed on Lesley killing |
| 8 | The lounge of the Grand Hotel was almost deserted , save for a tiny man perched on a bar stool , who seemed to spend much of his time muttering into his hand . |
| 9 | As the young man perched on the edge of the sofa , she took the bull by the horns . |
| 10 | Man committed on rape charge |
| 11 | ( t was cautious and non-committal and sounded unlike a man resolved on martial law and a mass arrest of strike leaders . |
| 12 | " Why had this man turned on me ? he would ask . |
| 13 | William Wybarn of Ticehurst ( goods £1 10 ) took on Bayham forge in 1525 , and Thomas Oxenbrege of Northiam ( £52 ) demised the Darfold Wood furnace in Mountfield and a forge at Etchingham in 1535 to a Thomas Walsh , who was perhaps the man taxed on £5 per annum in Danehill Sheffield hundred . |
| 14 | He matches the description of a man seen on Wimbledon Common shortly after the attack . |
| 15 | Police who 're still searching for Carol Clark 's missing denim clothing , also want to trace a blonde woman and a man seen on the canal towpath at midnight on Saturday . |
| 16 | The incident happened between 1.30 and 2.40 on Saturday afternoon ; police want to speak to a young man seen on a pedal cycle in the area at the time . |
| 17 | THE UVF has admitted murdering the 49-year-old Roman Catholic man shot on the Newtownards Road yesterday morning . |
| 18 | Man held : A man featured on Crimewatch was yesterday being questioned by police in connection with a robbery at the National and Provincial Building Society , Bondgate , Darlington last December . |
| 19 | ‘ We do believe the information to be useful and we also believe it is a possibility that the man shown on the tape in Phil Wells . |
| 20 | Vienna at this time has been immortalised in Carol Reed 's brilliant 1949 film The Third Man based on Graham Greene 's novel in which a drug trafficker , played by Orson Welles , manages to elude the police by crossing from one zone of the city to another via the network of underground sewers . |
| 21 | David , a 45-year-old married man employed on the production line of a car factory , was admitted to a general hospital after an overdose of 30 sleeping pills . |
| 22 | Nor was every man assessed on landed income an owner , for some used to take leases so as to be able to sublet them for profit . |
| 23 | The young man pulled on his hood . |
| 24 | " Let's have him out , " I gasped , and as the young man pulled on the forelegs I supported the body , which slid and toppled on to the tarmac with a horrible limpness . |
| 25 | The man pulled on a balaclava and ran past the girl into bushes at the end of the bridge . |
| 26 | The man rested on his oars . |
| 27 | Legal interest centres on a HIV-infected man charged on several counts for wilfully transmitting the virus to his sex partners . |
| 28 | I replied that I had watched my television all day when the first man stepped on the moon . |
| 29 | He caught the eye of the man seated on Matilda 's left and nodded curt acknowledgement . |
| 30 | There is a man seated on the right hand of God the Father , there interceding for you and for me . |