Example sentences of "man [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One man had climbed on to the roof of his car . |
| 7 | A man had climbed out of the car . |
| 8 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 9 | Eight of the men came running out of the trees and heaved at the sides of the lorry . |
| 10 | The two men started to dig down among the scattered bones to find other signs of interest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 13 | The men had gone back to the bunk shelf and their feet swung , threatening and powerful , beside his face . |
| 14 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 15 | These men had come out of the tubes of a submarine , probably a Delta class . |
| 16 | Two men had driven up to the gate in a van containing a 70 kg bomb which they then detonated . |
| 17 | As she passed Veronica 's house , she noticed that one of the men had got out of the green Maestro and was making his way round the back of the building . |