Example sentences of "[art] [adj] man [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a creak of splintering wood as the tall man prized off the lid of the crate . |
| 2 | ‘ Bring one out , ’ he said , watching as the tall man struggled with it , finally dropping it on to the deck . |
| 3 | Lucy glanced to where the tall man stood at the window , his back turned towards them , apparently deep in thought , because he made no reply . |
| 4 | The tall man spoke with the harsh accent of Ulster . |
| 5 | The tall man screamed with pain , slumping forward , Newman 's hand came down , nails jabbing into the back of the half-withdrawn hand . |
| 6 | Chapman 's search for the right man ended in 1929 when Preston put on transfer at £9,000 their ‘ Wembley Wizard ’ Alex James , the Scottish international who had been the bane of England at Wembley the year before , when Scotland won 5–1 . |
| 7 | Although Ian Wright will be included and is likely to get another chance , Taylor has yet to be convinced he is the right man to play alongside the Blackburn striker . |
| 8 | The arguments had not stood the test of time too well , but it ended pithily enough : ‘ What the working man wants from the war is work . ’ |
| 9 | The four-eyed man looked at his book . |
| 10 | ‘ If he counts until tomorrow night your boy wo n't get up , Ray , ’ said the tubby man sitting on Plummer 's left . |
| 11 | ‘ If you think I 'm falling into that trap you really have picked the wrong man to tangle with . |
| 12 | Only you chose the wrong man to play with . |
| 13 | Much more likely he boasted about the fact that he had the top man working for him . ’ |
| 14 | Certainly , while he is alive , Shaposhnikov the cappy man refuses to be parted from his headgear ; he grabs it when he determines to leave , and he drops it when he is persuaded to stay . |
| 15 | What if the ageing man has in fact lost such capacity ? |
| 16 | In spite of the cold ( the temperature was about 30 F below zero ) our tracking of the wanted man continued throughout that night , and he was captured , as he slept , by Doherty in an unused farm building the following day . |
| 17 | The old man hobbled into the circle of light , turning his cloth cap in his hands . |
| 18 | Down there , the old man potters with his cabbages . |
| 19 | ‘ The Doctor ’ , as the old man referred to him on her subsequent visits alone , ‘ the Doctor said as 'ow ‘ e were all for veg , like Mr Chadwick . ’ |
| 20 | Sadness far the way he had felt about the old man blended with a sense that his childhood was irrecoverably lost , and the knowledge that the very past when it was in flight Lived , like the present , in continual death . |
| 21 | The old man stared at him a moment , then nodded . |
| 22 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 23 | Appropriately , when the old man died in 1985 , it was of cirrhosis of the liver . |
| 24 | Duncan understood why the old man felt like that , but he was Duncan 's father and he would always be loyal to him . |
| 25 | The following extracts from it , written before Edward had met Helen Noble but after he had left St. Paul 's catches the effect the old man had upon the young would-be writer : |
| 26 | ‘ It belonged to your father , ’ the old man said at last . |
| 27 | The old man ambled to one end of the yard and returned with an armful of clean straw . |
| 28 | The boxer romped down the drive after me as I was leaving and the old man looked at him with undisguised admiration . |
| 29 | The old man looked after me well . |
| 30 | As he drank his morning tea , the old man lived in his memories . |