Example sentences of "man 's [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeish instantly understood the man 's nightmare but realized he could give only qualified reassurance . |
| 2 | When he was half-way over , the Czechoslovak police guarding the back of the embassy grabbed the man 's belt and began hauling him down . |
| 3 | Elaborately carved vases , figures , and smaller versions of the great jade mountains found in Ch'ing palaces further contributed to a man 's standing and enhanced the aesthetic ambience of the higher reaches of Chinese administration . |
| 4 | Gregson met the other man 's gaze and pulled a small photograph from the inside pocket of his jacket . |
| 5 | It was something about the old man 's attitude that had made him cry . |
| 6 | He cut the bandages close to the man 's chin and began slowly unravelling them , pausing every now and then to lift the man 's head . |
| 7 | He placed them firmly on the man 's chest and pressed the buttons . |
| 8 | With a lot of effort she finally managed to close the left-hand door and bolt it into place , then pushed the arm against the dead man 's chest and forced the other door over , sliding the remains of a file through two loops where the handles had once been to keep it shut . |
| 9 | It was a man 's voice that said , |
| 10 | Any astrologer worth her salt would have predicted this man 's presence and told her to steer clear . |
| 11 | He grabbed the man 's hair and slammed his face against the wall . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , do that , ’ Joe suggested , and he walked over and put his hand behind the man 's head and pushed him face-first into the screen . |
| 13 | The FT-SE 100 Index was in no man 's land and closed with a marginal two-point gain at 2706.2 . |
| 14 | I grabbed the man 's shoulder and shouted at him " What did you say about a ball ? " |
| 15 | The boy hid his face in the other man 's shirt and allowed himself to be drawn away . |
| 16 | Her shots tore off one man 's ear and wounded another man in the buttocks as he fled from the pub . |
| 17 | Ellwood put his mouth close to the old man 's ear and whispered , showing his teeth . |
| 18 | A SKINHEAD bit off a man 's ear and spat it out on a pub floor after the victim criticised his pitbull terrier . |
| 19 | Kathleen put her arm round the man 's shoulders and led him in . |
| 20 | Juron held his knife to the dead man 's brow and began sawing the monomolecular edge through bone . |
| 21 | Curtis met the younger man 's eye and held it . |
| 22 | He had sensed her fear of yielding to a man 's passion and had reined in his desire immediately . |
| 23 | Harald put his hand on the older man 's arm and stopped talking . |
| 24 | He grabbed the man 's hand and stuffed the money into it . |
| 25 | Then he lifted his hand from the young man 's buttock and felt under his legs , squeezed his balls gently , then firmer , then hard . |
| 26 | He saw the excited , childish smile on the younger man 's face and knew the answer . |
| 27 | " I just do n't know why you turn me on at all , " Slater said , then peered closely at the other young man 's face and said pointedly , " Are you listening to me , Park ? " |
| 28 | She glared at the telephone dial as if it were the young man 's face and held the receiver away from her ear . |
| 29 | Muttering a prayer to render those impotent , Juron slid the monomolecular blade between the man 's lips and sliced the edge easily through the whip . |
| 30 | BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT : The art of phalloplasty , in which fat is removed from different parts of a man 's body and grafted on to his penis . |