Example sentences of "a man [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er William doyen of the broadcasting standards council and a man whose seems to er I do n't know I do n't know whether he courts bad publicity or he but anyway . |
| 2 | But we at Bizzerk have finally unmasked the mastermind behind Various — Mr — Mr Reg ‘ K-Telestar ’ Nobb , 37 , a man we met in a Soho pub . |
| 3 | But we at Bizzerk have finally unmasked the mastermind behind Various — Mr — Mr Reg ‘ K-Telestar ’ Nobb , 37 , a man we met in a Soho pub . |
| 4 | ‘ An hour ago , a man we know as a Parisian gangster was killed by one of our sentries . |
| 5 | TWO PEOPLE were charged last night with terror offences in London while police hunting the killers of a soldier in Derby named a man they wanted for questioning . |
| 6 | Detectives are tonight still questioning a man they arrested on Saturday night . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's a man I met during the course of my work . ’ |
| 8 | There was a man I worked with — I done seven seasons along with him : and there was n't so much as an angry word or dammit passed between us . |
| 9 | We discussed a man I nursed for him about seven years ago in a London nursing home . |
| 10 | Afterwards we have a pint in the welcoming pub , where there 's a poem on the wall about telling a man who boozes by the company he chooses . |
| 11 | ‘ A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea . |
| 12 | Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty . |
| 13 | All in all , this was a man who delighted in proving how clever he was and sometimes , as a corollary , in suggesting how dim and credulous other people were . |
| 14 | I managed to get a fairly good seat , and it was my fortune to sit next to a man who delighted in explaining the nuances of the case to a foreigner . |
| 15 | In my youth there was a man who lived in our block of buildings who was a champion boxer while in the Army in India and he was always known as being doolally tap . |
| 16 | We could not , as we said , challenge a man who believed in Cortés 's divinity , or who , in some manner or form ‘ experienced ’ Cortés within him . |
| 17 | Not , she told herself , that she was used to it , but having just married a man who had to be a millionaire several times over … |
| 18 | But Shakespeare 's manipulation ultimately disrupts Harsnett 's design : ‘ In Shakespeare , the realization that demonic possession is a theatrical imposture leads not to a clarification — the clear-eyed satisfaction of a man who refuses to be gulled — but to a deeper uncertainty , a loss of moorings , in the face of evil . ’ |
| 19 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 20 | A man who stabbed to death his lover 's ex-husband in a court waiting room has had his sentence halved . |
| 21 | Should we take the remark as more than the reflex perversity of a man who dreamed of Egypt while in Normandy , and of Normandy while in Egypt ? |
| 22 | The priest who is thought of as a man who goes into poor areas and preaches and helps the needy and the poor as Saint Francis did , is showing rich tourists paintings . |
| 23 | In July 1990 British researchers investigating the origins of AIDS reported that tests on a man who died of an unexplained disease in 1959 showed that he had carried the HIV virus . |
| 24 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 25 | The widow of a man who died from asbestosis has begun another court battle with British Rail over compensation . |
| 26 | The German state prosecutor 's office announced on April 8 that tests conducted on the bones of a man who died in Brazil in 1979 confirmed that the body ( discovered in 1985 — see p. 33759 ) was that of Josef Mengele , the so-called " Angel of Death " held responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War . |
| 27 | A misadventure verdict 's been recorded on a man who died in hospital after being admitted with broken ribs . |
| 28 | A 25-year-old unemployed Londonderry man was today charged with the manslaughter of a man who died in a car accident near Limavady on Tuesday night . |
| 29 | A MAN who died in police custody in Darlington was yesterday named as 37-year-old John Gannon . |
| 30 | The daughters of a man who died after breathing asbestos dust are suing his employers British Rail for a hundred thousand pounds . |