Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [num] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his survey of all incidents involving a solitary offender recorded by the police as rapes or attempted rapes between 1972 and 1976 in six English counties , he found that 204 men were arrested for rape or attempted rape . |
| 2 | We passed under an arch of branches which still bore a few autumn leaves and stopped as one man , but the corporal was waving us on . |
| 3 | They sat chatting to his clerk , until his door opened and two men emerged . |
| 4 | The nearby door opened and two men came out on to the landing . |
| 5 | A moment later the door opened and five men in uniforms trooped in . |
| 6 | This happened because one man , Peron , had a dream . |
| 7 | Once the grips were taken , the wrenching and twisting , the buttocking and tripping and hyking , the turning and thrashing and throwing began until one man was floored , his grip broken . |
| 8 | TED 'S POSITION as eighth alternate meant that eight men who had qualified for the heats would have to drop out before he was summoned . |
| 9 | Nearly always one at least was missing , and that meant that seven men we all knew had got the chop . |
| 10 | He saw that two men were now holding me , pushing me down and punching me and he recognized the man who was walking up the stairs . |
| 11 | The coroner said he understood that one man had been arrested following inquiries and another man was still being sought . |
| 12 | Fatal crash : A 67 year old West Kirby woman died and two men were seriously injured in a road accident involving a car and a van at Burton Road , near the Marshland Road crossroads , Neston . |
| 13 | If in effect , Clasper said that three men must be employed to do two men 's work , then that was it . |
| 14 | Richmann glared back down the road at the settling dust , and seethed that two men with only a double-barrelled shotgun could get away from him . |
| 15 | British Rail Maintenance explained that 140 men and women had volunteered for redundancy . |
| 16 | A Sheffield manufacturer suggested that 6,000 men , women and children in his district similarly depended on the American market for their employment . |
| 17 | One of Jaci Stephen 's gems ( Spring Edition ) you omitted was the occasion she suggested that one man 's motive for daring to criticise her was a size limitation in the manhood department . |
| 18 | Omega 's captain and the submarine commander beside him lifted their hands in salute ; heads high , Taureg 's officers returned it as the at-ease submariners snapped as one man to attention . |