Example sentences of "[adj] man [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought Bobby Carter was a brave man to stand up to Billy , and him twice his size . ’ |
| 2 | Some man came up to me and asked , ‘ You wan na smoke ? ’ |
| 3 | Besides , Priscilla 's probably got some man lined up for you as dinner partner . ’ |
| 4 | That 's what she said and she said minding me own business and this she said and this man come up to her and he said have you got |
| 5 | ‘ About forty minutes before the train was due to arrive this man came up to me and asked if I 'd be interested in making five hundred francs . |
| 6 | Anyway , this man came up to where I was standing with my mother , and asked if I was for hire . |
| 7 | This man came up to and he heard this chains . |
| 8 | and this man came up to me father and he says , that is not the right grave , you 've been told . |
| 9 | This man went out with a pouch and gathered up owl-pellets , which he labelled , and later , took apart with forceps , bathed in glass beakers of various cleansing fluids , ordering and rearranging the orts and fragments of the owl 's compressed package of bone , tooth and fur , in order to reconstitute the dead shrew or slow-worm which had run , died , and made its way through owl-gut . |
| 10 | Got this man to come up with his screwdrivers and his this , that and the other . |
| 11 | The old man blinks up through milky , uncomprehending eyes as the father , leaning over the table on knuckled hands , spits out his loathing in a voice too low to be overheard . |
| 12 | Along the valley , the old man wanders off from his allotment into a small rickety shed . |
| 13 | Only the old man got through to Matthew , and even though David argued his stepfather was showing only kindness , and ‘ had the boy 's interests at heart ’ , Beth was not convinced . |
| 14 | Craning his neck , the old man looked up at his stepson . |
| 15 | Alexander assumed the throne of Montenegro in 1918 when the French government , in league with the Serbian , refused to allow the old man to go back to Montenegro after his wartime exile in France . |
| 16 | The weatherbeaten old man squinted up at the handsome young giant who stood grinning down at him . |
| 17 | Then in the lake an old man came up from under the water and took a great scoopful of water and drank deeply . |
| 18 | An old man came out of the baker 's and his young dog greeted him . |
| 19 | In the Forest of Fangorn Gimli the dwarf wants Legolas the elf ( both companions of Frodo ) to kill an old wandering man but Legolas takes pity on him and again the right decision is made , the old man turns out to be Gandalf whom they thought was dead . |
| 20 | Mostly , they drank beer , so much of it that one old man stumbled out into the night entirely on automatic pilot and a middle-aged , tired-looking woman with a wooden leg lapsed into a coma . |
| 21 | The old man sat up with a jerk , slopping scotch over his hands which I noticed were shaking . |
| 22 | The old man peered down at him . |
| 23 | The old man sank back into the chair , a look of satisfaction on his face . |
| 24 | But there 's many a missus as needs to be home when her old man comes in from work on a Thursday , if she 's to get her proper share of his pay-packet . |
| 25 | The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street . |
| 26 | A fair-haired man getting out of the passenger seat , front . |
| 27 | As Dr Warton entered the bedroom , he heard the dying man cry out to his medical attendant : |
| 28 | Each individual man starts out as an animal with a potential ( genetic predisposition ) for acquiring culture ; we become civilized human beings by virtue of our training ; our moral judgements derives from that training . |
| 29 | As they watched , a burly man came out of the farm and crossed to one of the three barns . |
| 30 | She can stick to aggression and abuse — tell the offending man to back off from teaching his granny to suck eggs . |