Example sentences of "[art] [adj] man [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the valley , the old man wanders off from his allotment into a small rickety shed . |
| 2 | She can stick to aggression and abuse — tell the offending man to back off from teaching his granny to suck eggs . |
| 3 | The beefy man climbed down from behind his counter and led Joe to the back of the shop , where he unlocked a door . |
| 4 | Of a sudden , the Harlequin man sprang up from behind the dune beyond . |
| 5 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 6 | I saw a red-haired man jump down from one of the branches as if he , too , was sickening of the scene and was preparing to leave . |
| 7 | ‘ Finding her like what ? ’ asked Vernon , but at that moment a young man rushed in from the street . |
| 8 | Then a young man jumped out from behind a tree . |
| 9 | Then in the lake an old man came up from under the water and took a great scoopful of water and drank deeply . |