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Example sentences of "man was [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1	Each man was given a large hunting knife and two smaller weapons known as okapi knives .
2	The man was given a 2 year probation order on condition he attends a clinic .
3	One way of evading restrictions was to find sinecure posts for good players ; one man was given the job of checking the advertising posters for the club , though the most common trick was for club directors , who were often substantial employers , to find part-time or simply bogus jobs for which payment was made .
4	Serious incidents had occurred in recent years and one man was serving a prison sentence after his conviction in 1991 for manslaughter , the report said .
5	It is no accident that the rise of science and technology and subsequently industrialisation and the process of wealth creation followed the acceptance of an explicitly Biblical view of the world in which manual work was not considered contemptible and in which man was delegated the task of managing the world 's resources for his benefit .
6	At the same time , another young man was managing the estates of one of Hungary 's other great landowners , the Countess Andrássy .
7	The man was brushing the London dust from his dark-suited legs , and she could n't see his face .
8	Ramakrishna tells a story of a devotee who was in tears while a holy man was expounding the Gita .
9	The Wensleydale-born man was elected the first president of the Society by those gathered in the watchmaker 's shop in 1835 and held that post until his death in 1858 .
10	‘ Thank you both , ’ Beth told them , at the same time stepping between the men and Cissie ; she did not like the way the younger man was regarding the girl .
11	With regard to the incident this morning , we do not know at this stage whether the injured man was operating a taxi or not .
12	It is perhaps dubious to argue that a prayer or worship becomes more efficacious if more people join in , but there is no doubt that man was created a social animal and ritual that is shared is ritual that becomes more meaningful .
13	Back at Reckweilerhof in time for dinner , an old man was leaving the restaurant with a couple who were probably his son and daughter-in-law .
14	Over the other end a man was reading the Völkischer Beobachter with the aid of a dictionary .
15	One woman was knitting , an old man was reading the Daily Minor .
16	To my dismay , the residents ' lounge was full of people and one man was addressing the company , whether they liked it or not , with an account of his mountaineering adventures .
17	He opened the door , took off his cap and threw it into the stall : ‘ If that 's welcome , ’ he said , ‘ so am I. ’ In a short time the horse came to the door : they put the bridle on him and shortly afterwards the Norfolk man was taking the horse to the smithy to be shod .
18	The man was tapping the barrel of a syringe .
19	By now my man was seeing the ball like a melon .
20	One young man was killed a few weeks before the Armistice .
21	Suddenly Lok understood that the man was holding the stick out to him but neither he nor Lok could reach across the river .
22	A man was buying a two-year sub-lease on some business premises .
23	The man was wearing a white coat and spectacles without any glass in them .
24	One large young man was wearing a T-shirt bearing the legend , ‘ We want ink in our Pen ’ .
25	The taller man was wearing a dark , leather jacket .
26	The taller man was wearing a dark , leather jacket .
27	The old man was wearing a plastic raincoat but was hatless .
28	The lower half of the Harvesters ' Vase priest is broken off , so we have no way of knowing how his lower half was clothed , but the seal impression shows that underneath the pleated skirt the man was wearing the sacral hide garment .
29	One man was wearing an old soldier 's cape .
30	The constable did investigate the incident and proudly told colleagues later how his discretion and instinct had proved correct : the man was telling the truth .