Example sentences of "man [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Warton warned me of reciprocal traffic — probably out of the Isle of Man bound for Blackpool . |
| 2 | What had happened ? the first man asked of Agnes . |
| 3 | When Liam had gone to see him , the old man asked about Nellie . |
| 4 | In the middle of the sex this man whispered in Boy 's ear , you 're just like him , you know , you 're just like him you are . |
| 5 | No doubt Palaeolithic man lived on coal deposits and Bronze Age man lived on iron deposits , but , until people appreciate the use of such materials , they are of no interest to them . |
| 6 | No doubt Palaeolithic man lived on coal deposits and Bronze Age man lived on iron deposits , but , until people appreciate the use of such materials , they are of no interest to them . |
| 7 | Once upon a time man lived by hunting and by gathering . |
| 8 | The man lived in Gateshead . |
| 9 | The coypu man lived in Nunes . |
| 10 | I saw the young man lived in Penn … . ’ 'Such dreadful things happen in families nowadays , ’ she said ( I liked ‘ nowadays ’ ) . |
| 11 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 12 | One man fainted with stomach pains and an elderly couple were taken ill . |
| 13 | ‘ First , are we to accept that a man waded through water up to his neck to tie a noose to hang himself ? |
| 14 | There was a muffled report , the man rose upon tiptoe but he did n't fall . |
| 15 | The man trembled with rage , leaning slightly forward because of the strain on his collar . |
| 16 | Rush usually has a high sense of occasion for landmarks but his 200th league goal for Liverpool came when the master hit man seemed to mistime Don Hutchison 's chip eight yards out . |
| 17 | A man arested in Blackpool is being questioned about the murder of a student in Cheltenham . |
| 18 | The young man squinted at Cornelius and then generally about the place . |
| 19 | Adam must be around somewhere — if she could just find him and have a quick word before her part in the proceedings began — as if in answer to her prayers , a small group of business-suited men began to disperse , and the figure of a fair-haired man came into view . |
| 20 | The chronology of the past is important , and we feel easier in our minds if our memories are ordered , even if this only means remembering whether the gas man came on Thursday or Friday . |
| 21 | ‘ In the middle of the proceedings a man came on stage and announced the death of the King , ’ recalls Mr Keenan . |
| 22 | Against Dublin Brolly was a revelation and though he had his critics in the past the Dungiven man came of age in Croke Park with one of the great individual performances . |
| 23 | Leslie 's mother and I visited the family of the corporal from Edinburgh ; and when the mother of a Manchester man came to Edinburgh to stay with friends some time later , we went to see her , too . |
| 24 | He remembers being there the night the great man came to Feethams to play for Southampton in a match to mark Darlington 's centenary . |
| 25 | A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt . |
| 26 | On 10 March 1736 the Revd James Clegg , a Nonconformist minister and apothecary from Chinley in the heart of the Peak District , noted in his diary : ‘ An ancient man came for advice and brought a water [ a urine sample ? ] from beyond Southwell in Nottinghamshire , on foot , about 36 miles ’ ; no doubt he returned the same way . |
| 27 | Then an old man came from Bolivia to Amantani . |
| 28 | ‘ Soon after that a different Man came by car and he put me in a carrier cage and took me into the darkness of a long journey , over bumpy roads , on to a ship , and into the most terrible place of all , an iron cage with obscured windows , which raced through the night clattering and clattering , a regular rhythm of metallic sound . |
| 29 | The little man roared with laughter and it evidently pleased him for he went about afterwards telling the Cabinet that ’ he had been caught telling the truth ’ . ’ |
| 30 | From the wings a slim young man strolled towards centre-stage . |