Example sentences of "man was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see how completely unconcerned this brutal man was about the feelings of the members of his family . |
| 2 | ‘ Poor man was through the wars , was n't he ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Nobody else could see that the man was on a financial treadmill , that his expenses were so huge he had to spend 50 weeks a year on the road to afford two weeks in his castle in Normandy . ’ |
| 4 | A YOUNG man was on a life support machine last night after being attacked out of the blue in a town centre . |
| 5 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
| 6 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 7 | When her man was on the dole . |
| 8 | He hoped the man was on the right track and did his best to believe that he was . |
| 9 | What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed . |
| 10 | It was necessary to do this since the roof was both low and decorated with swags of imitation seaweed ; a tall man was at a disadvantage . |
| 11 | ‘ Then her own young man was at the front . |
| 12 | A dirty looking young man was at the wheel . |
| 13 | The man was at the far end of a line of slowly moving pack animals , and he had not noticed anything . |
| 14 | ‘ Thank you , Harald , ’ Carl whispered , when the man was at the front of the plane . |
| 15 | It was propped against the wall of a house , + a man was at the top of it , painting a wall with white paint . |
| 16 | The old man was like a raving lunatic , apparently . ’ |
| 17 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 18 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 19 | In the 1920s a local man was in a terrible state of nerves and he too visited the bridge with the one thought in his mind . |
| 20 | The other man was in a Focker Triplane , a Tripehound . |
| 21 | The little man was in a crumpled heap against the wall , but at least he was groaning . |
| 22 | Everyone who subsequently learned of this action condemned it as utterly stupid and irresponsible , but perhaps such criticism may be tempered by the fact that the man was in a deep state of shock . |
| 23 | Neither Bayer nor MAN was in the same desperate straits as AEG ; but even in the electricals firm 's case capital spending fell sharply as a percentage of sales only in 1982 . |
| 24 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 25 | The man was in the control loop ( Hick and Bates , 1950 ) . |
| 26 | The man was in the field . |
| 27 | The bearded man was in the Captain 's cabin , and the young man in the black shirt was watching the other passengers . |
| 28 | The man was in the act of turning a page , and , in so doing , he momentarily exposed its front cover , which Harry had , till now , only seen at a distance . |
| 29 | You said the man was from the Iranian Embassy 's commercial section ? ’ |
| 30 | Man was among the last of a wide range of Eurasian mammals to trek overland through the forests and tundra of Beringia , now the Bering Strait region , during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene . |