Example sentences of "[adj] man [vb past] [pn reflx] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The older men established themselves over by the fireplace . |
| 2 | A four-hour siege has ended peacefully after an armed man gave himself up to police . |
| 3 | How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ? |
| 4 | But the siege ended peacefully after two unarmed men gave themselves up . |
| 5 | Did you make sure that undesirable young man cleaned himself up before he saw Hayley ? ’ |
| 6 | Pursued by the press , both men hid themselves as well as they could . |