Example sentences of "man [vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local man offers to ferry me across the fjord and I am soon on the way to Holt . |
| 2 | In Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 Lord Reid said : Whenever a man agrees to do something over a period he thereby puts it wholly or partly out of his power to " exercise any trade or business he pleases " during that period . |
| 3 | If you say a man has killed his wife , you are damaging his-reputation and he is entitled to damages which could be considerable . |
| 4 | Now that Essex Man has demonstrated his backing for one winning team , the Conservatives , the men of Essex will be keen to show that they , too , deserve the people 's support for a second term at the head of the Championship table . |
| 5 | If a man has lost his employment and his wife , he has been charged with drunk driving and his blood tests show damaged liver function , one hardly needs to ask questions on his alcohol consumption and the answers are unlikely to be fully truthful in any case . |
| 6 | but you see the , the sad thing of this is , if you 've got a , a little family and then you ca n't , because the man has lost his job , you 're turned out of your house even if you 've paid five or six years on it |
| 7 | Racing Santander FC , who will stage the match as a benefit for the Spanish PFA , said yesterday : ‘ An England security man has checked our ground but nothing has been decided about segregation or tickets . ’ |
| 8 | Once man has satisfied his basic needs , and has reached a state of equilibrium of contentment , the world opens for him and becomes a cornucopia of delight . |
| 9 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 10 | And we indeed , justly , for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong . |
| 11 | The great man has done it again . |
| 12 | When we got outside I said to Shanti , ‘ That nice man has said you can be our little girl for ever . ’ |
| 13 | These are questions that man has asked himself since time began . |
| 14 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 15 | ‘ They say some man has given me a disease . |
| 16 | To live as a white man on land a white man has given you . |
| 17 | The court has decided this ; this man has libelled me . |
| 18 | Alexander firmly believed that man has to delay his instantaneous response to the many stimuli that he is bombarded with each day if he is ever to cope with his rapidly changing environment . |
| 19 | You have a chance maybe to undo some of the damage that man has caused our family . |
| 20 | What have we come to in this country when a man has to prove his innocence against some fluid , movable charge ? " |
| 21 | A MAN has found his long lost sister after a 41-year search — only to discover she is now a he after a sex change . |
| 22 | Nicknames have been used for as long as man has identified himself . |
| 23 | However , as the Worcester Post Man has changed its title to the Worcester Journal , the Mercury could claim to be the oldest surviving newspaper with the same name . |
| 24 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 25 | Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more . |
| 26 | In keeping with Sandie Macleod 's fighting on behalf of the clans , the Laird himself , although straitened by low incomes from his estates , had never racked his rents and as a consequence , says Boswell , ‘ so far is he from distressing his people , that , in the present rage for emigration , not a man has left his estate . ’ |
| 27 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 28 | But rather than simply treading water , the big man has put his stock in the new material — which is more relevant than nostalgic . |
| 29 | ‘ This man has offered his house , Khan . ’ |
| 30 | erm , and now the tax man has hammered us so hard |