Example sentences of "[vb past] of [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 2 | At the end of one recent service , a message from a clairvoyant told of three men suffering from chest pains ; not three but four sufferers stepped up to the altar to be healed . |
| 3 | Once disbanded , then opened up again with two officers , it now consisted of eight men and all of them overworked . |
| 4 | The sample consisted of nine men and 16 women and represented eight professions and 17 types of impairment ; two people had dual qualifications . |
| 5 | Every delegation sent out by the strikers to talk to workers at other factories consisted of two men and two women . |
| 6 | The patient population consisted of 85 men ( 76% ) and 27 women ( 24% ) , with a mean age of 63 years ( range 30–96 years ) . |
| 7 | The study population consisted of 11 men and 16 women who were not pregnant with a mean age of 41 ( range 21 to 70 ) . |
| 8 | The finals consisted of 8 men 's and ladies ' veterans events from 40 to 65 years and over . |
| 9 | The team consisted of listed men , officers , air , ground people , all with one aim in mind , the success of our nations . |
| 10 | A Roman legion consisted of 6000 men . |
| 11 | Increasingly familiar became the tone of letters home like the following : ‘ Of my section , which consisted of 19 men , only 3 are left … |
| 12 | The Dieulafoy group consisted of 22 men ( 78.6% ) and six women ( 21.4% ) . |
| 13 | The force , as finally assembled , consisted of 231 men , 45 jeeps and an unspecified number of 3-tonners , probably around 40 . |
| 14 | In an address on Virgil which he gave in September of this year , he talked of certain men , like Aeneas , who are elected to a special destiny . |
| 15 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |
| 16 | He sang of big men made small by love , prison cells and cattle towns , soft women and hard liquor . |
| 17 | Mr Gray said he knew of one man who had been threatened with court action for not paying his water rates when he did not receive a reminder . |
| 18 | I knew of another man who dealt in them . |