Example sentences of "man was [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed . |
| 2 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 3 | When her man was on the dole . |
| 4 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
| 5 | It was propped against the wall of a house , + a man was at the top of it , painting a wall with white paint . |
| 6 | ‘ Then her own young man was at the front . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you , Harald , ’ Carl whispered , when the man was at the front of the plane . |
| 8 | A dirty looking young man was at the wheel . |
| 9 | The man was in the field . |
| 10 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 11 | The man was in the act of turning a page , and , in so doing , he momentarily exposed its front cover , which Harry had , till now , only seen at a distance . |
| 12 | The man was in the control loop ( Hick and Bates , 1950 ) . |
| 13 | The bearded man was in the Captain 's cabin , and the young man in the black shirt was watching the other passengers . |