Example sentences of "[adj] man [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electronic man attending to the high singing voices from another star that compliment him , soothe him , accept his duty . |
| 2 | There was usually some man waiting on the other side of the hole , like some sea creature waiting to grab its prey , and after I had settled on the seat , there would be a significant pause . |
| 3 | And that at least is true , he thought , because if I were a crippled old man living on an early pension filtered through the Secret Vote — and thus controllable — I would n't want any whisper of indiscretion getting back to the Service . |
| 4 | ‘ Missed the tram , did ye ? ’ asked an old man leaning against the close mouth . |
| 5 | A plump old man sitting in a wooden scaffold on a marine building site sawed the top off an immense teak column to make it flush with the decking . |
| 6 | THERE are only 19 people left in Zeila — mostly old men sheltering from the glaring sun in the wreckage of this ancient port . |
| 7 | A pleasant , rather gentle middleaged man sitting in the quiet lounge of a London hotel , remembering how he learnt his trade . |
| 8 | He smiled at the huddles of aimless , olive-skinned men standing outside the couscous bars . |
| 9 | Perhaps the simplest of these is the expression , ‘ It is the law that … ’ , which we may find on the lips not only of judges , but of ordinary men living under a legal system , when they identify a given rule of the system … |
| 10 | It is best , perhaps , not to speculate whether the hostelry still exists in which he discovered ‘ … a low-spirited little man sitting at an empty ‘ bar ’ and hiding himself , as it were , from all mortal inspection behind the full sheet of a dirty provincial newspaper . |
| 11 | JOHN SAVAGE , an American actor whose roles include a white man living in a rough black neighbourhood in Spike Lee 's Do the Right Thing , was attacked in Soweto last week . |
| 12 | On the other hand , his determination to win became such that he frequently appeared to condone his fast men bowling in an intimidating fashion , which obviously led to criticism from press and public . |
| 13 | LINGERIE departments at Christmas are full of bewildered men searching for the perfect gift for their partner . |
| 14 | The first is a transcript taken from some ethnographic research which I carried out into the culture of racism amongst young white men living on a large council estate in South London . |
| 15 | Three men catching on the off side , a slip , gully and silly point . |
| 16 | A vehicle was heard in the alleyway , followed by the footsteps of either two or three men walking past the open door . |
| 17 | These examples are relevant in the present context as the equitable no conflict rule is formulated in terms of a " reasonable man looking at the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case " thinking that " there was a real sensible possibility of conflict " . |
| 18 | It was like a blind man walking down a familiar corridor . |
| 19 | The first was when I came across a picture of a heavily armoured man jousting with a naked woman , like knights at a tournament . |
| 20 | It was deserted except for one man lounging in a comfortable chair under the shade of a tree , an empty glass on a table at his side . |
| 21 | But more often there were not , and heavily laden men falling into the water-filled holes remained there until they drowned , unable to crawl up the greasy sides . |
| 22 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 23 | What then were the hurdles facing a young man aspiring to a scholarly career in the early sixteenth century ? |
| 24 | The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree . |
| 25 | As they neared the small shop they were nearly knocked to the ground by a young man fleeing from the same direction . |
| 26 | That young man sitting on an old man 's knee ; some people would think it improper . ’ ‘ |
| 27 | At this time A. A. Griffith ( 1893–1963 ) was a young man working at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough . |
| 28 | ‘ In the meantime , my dad had arrived at the house and spotted two men hanging around the ditched vehicle . |
| 29 | They had caught two men breaking into an antique shop a few miles away from Wellingham , a former private house at the side of the road . |
| 30 | When they reached it , they spied two men standing at the ready as they had expected : the passage through the palisade over the water was always manned by a guard or two . |