Example sentences of "man have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true to say that man has lost much since the perfection of Adam . |
| 2 | But I 'll tell you this , that young man has done more for Wales already than we could dream of . ’ |
| 3 | OVER the last four decades , man has relied increasingly on powerful armoury of chemicals in the war against pests . |
| 4 | man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal . |
| 5 | Captain Kirk will end his boldly going where no man has gone before by becoming an intergalactic monk . |
| 6 | The man had run away with the fear and speed of an animal , graceful rather than awkward . |
| 7 | Liam found a letter , which the old man had written just after Liam 's mother 's own death the year before . |
| 8 | Twenty-five years after the war ended a man had gone in to the shop and been told that his treasure was studded with spinels instead of rubies . |
| 9 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 10 | The crowd of women and the big man had gone out into the street , but the thin man remained ; and he looked from the child towards the closed door before he , too , turned and went out . |
| 11 | Phat struck the motionless corpse of the coolie who had died beside Hoc a third time before he realized that the wretched man had passed forever beyond pain and productive labor . |
| 12 | More than one man had looked enviously at him . |
| 13 | If the man had held out for five seconds he would have been dead . |
| 14 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |
| 15 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 16 | He had walked in and taken over and the marvel man had come up with nothing . |
| 17 | He had found milk at the ā gri 's house and the old man had come back with him to see if he could be of any use . |
| 18 | They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them . |
| 19 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 20 | One man had climbed on to the roof of his car . |
| 21 | A man had climbed out of the car . |
| 22 | What ambivalence that man had brought out in me … |
| 23 | The target and the man had walked away up a tree-lined road . |
| 24 | Both men had moved up in the world recently and the evidence of their new wealth was all around them in the curtains , the carpets , the original paintings and the quality of the ornaments and effects . |
| 25 | The two men had collaborated before on the design of lightning protectors , and the Lodge–Muirhead Wireless Telegraphy Syndicate Ltd. was formed in 1901 . |
| 26 | After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it . |
| 27 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 28 | When she was satisfied that the men had gone back to their car , Mary hurried towards Smiling Meadow . |
| 29 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 30 | The men had gone back to the bunk shelf and their feet swung , threatening and powerful , beside his face . |