Example sentences of "man was in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The other man was in a Focker Triplane , a Tripehound . |
| 5 | The little man was in a crumpled heap against the wall , but at least he was groaning . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The man was in the control loop ( Hick and Bates , 1950 ) . |
| 10 | The man was in the field . |
| 11 | The bearded man was in the Captain 's cabin , and the young man in the black shirt was watching the other passengers . |
| 12 | 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 . |