Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , ‘ Let me go , Syl ’ , because I felt ridiculous , crushed between this man and the garden hedge . |
| 2 | He said of holy relics : ‘ England is almost the only country in the world where there is not some favourite religious spot where absurd lies , little bits of cloth , feathers , splinters , rusty nails and other invaluable relics are treasured up and in defence of which the whole population are willing to turn out and perish as one man . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 4 | If she was seriously letting herself fall for this man 's serpentine charm , then all she could think was that the glandular fever had affected her brain cells as well as her blood cells . |
| 5 | THE family of Magheraberry life prisoner Bobby Corry have asked us to point out that they did not attend his wedding on Thursday to fellow prisoner Anna Moore and his brother did not act as best man as suggested in our report . |
| 6 | I could not understand how anyone could act as this man did towards another human being suffering as I then was . |
| 7 | What did he know about this man , Myles Burke ? |
| 8 | ‘ So what do you know about this man who 's trying to kill me ? ’ |
| 9 | What did she know about this man , really ? |
| 10 | Roma Downey : Tipped for Quiet Man remake By Eddie McIlwaine |
| 11 | What did she know of this man who was now her husband , and what was to become of them , two strangers who had begun to be familiar with each other 's bodies but knew nothing of the thoughts and emotions that lay within . |
| 12 | ‘ You did all that could be expected of any man , ’ said the abbot firmly . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the season of goodwill to all mankind but its looks like this man had had enough of womankind , ’ added PC Weal who ordered them a taxi . |
| 14 | But the real skill in producing it lies with one man , ‘ Sniffer In Chief ’ Frank Newlands . |
| 15 | My dear chap , a different path lies before each man and no one of us can tell what road he may chance to follow . ’ |
| 16 | Cancer case starts in doomed man 's home |
| 17 | It would have won round any man but Angel Clare . |
| 18 | When the Rump was restored in May , he appeared before it to urge that the government ‘ may not be too long trusted in any man 's hands : that it may not be perpetuated to men ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Once they have decided that they are committed to one man , they seem to want to acknowledge this publicly and to receive public approval in return . |
| 20 | He was looking at her this time , directly into her eyes , and in the twilight she felt her pulses begin to race , and she thought , Oh , my God , I 'm really attracted to this man . |
| 21 | The kiss was a fierce , stormy possession , making her head swim and bringing with it the realisation that it would take no effort at all to become seriously attracted to this man ! |
| 22 | And if she could find herself being attracted to another man so soon … even so slightly attracted … |
| 23 | She had never responded to any man in her whole life as she did to Felipe . |
| 24 | I 'll just , I 'll have to work till later man . |
| 25 | They 're happy , it does n't matter There 's some women and , you know , there 's quite a few , I mean , there 's never ever looked at another man , do you know what I mean , and not being funny , |
| 26 | The youth was approached by another man as he walked along High Row and then beaten to the ground . |
| 27 | ‘ We are asking anyone who is approached by this man to get in touch with the RUC . ’ |
| 28 | As a result , many stations are now programmed by one man and a computer . |
| 29 | We do not mean a freedom that can be enjoyed by one man or one set of men at the cost of a loss of freedom to others . |
| 30 | The CIRV de-rigs and folds away into two packages weighing only sixty kilograms which can be packed into an air-droppable container and carried by one man . |