Example sentences of "see the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Mr. Smith said he had been able to see the man 's face . |
| 2 | He stopped short , surprised to see the man . |
| 3 | To see the man I must put my faith in . |
| 4 | There may be some temptation for the child to fail deliberately in order to see the man hang , now that many computers have high resolution graphics ! |
| 5 | After a while she explained that she was in love with someone else — not hopelessly ineligible , but not nearly as suitable as my father- and her parents had refused to allow her to see the man . |
| 6 | I projected the child 's face into his own vanished future and attempted to see the man he would have become , the man I intend to find . ’ |
| 7 | He shrugged it off , not convinced that his concern was necessary because she was unlikely to see the man that evening and in the morning there could be an arrest . |
| 8 | Louisa gasped with delight to see the man and his reflection travel together so fluently . |
| 9 | He wanted to turn the lamp up , to see the man 's eyes better . |
| 10 | Stuart turned to speak and was just in time to see the man snatch the plastic bin from the young assistant and run back towards the door . |
| 11 | ‘ You wanted to see the Man , did n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | He explained that he had fought tooth and nail to be allowed to see the men in custody since the time of the arrests . |
| 13 | I 've got to see the men and then go up to Dublin . |
| 14 | In the frosty quiet he heard the sound of an engine too suave to belong to a resident , and peered over the parapet to see the men getting out of the car below . |
| 15 | She felt a sensation of floating , since the poison which had claimed her had blocked all physical feeling , and she could not move her head to see the men who were carrying her . |
| 16 | But Tildy was happy to work with no thanks , she was happy to see the men with Aileen , she was happy to know that the men loved Aileen . |
| 17 | Watching him speak , and seeing the man he was , I realized the distress that allowed him to reveal his feelings to me . |
| 18 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 19 | As for Philip , the prospect of seeing the man who was supposed to marry his sister go off on crusade for an indefinite period seems to have been too much for him . |
| 20 | Seeing the Man approach Creggan pulled away and with one final lunge of his beak at the flesh hopped back and up on to the branch across his cage . |
| 21 | Even if he had been aware of the presence , the darkness would have prevented him seeing the man who watched his flat . |
| 22 | ‘ But I did feel a bit funny afterwards because it was so early and I did n't remember seeing the man around the house before . |
| 23 | As far as she could remember , she had never seen the man before , he was no friend of Faith 's . |
| 24 | Rozanov had not seen the man , in any form , nor had he been aware of speaking those words . |
| 25 | Had he not seen the man before ? |
| 26 | I had nowhere on our journey to and from the horse car seen the man with the gaunt face . |
| 27 | No , he was imagining things , he had n't seen the man all that clearly in the fog . |
| 28 | ‘ All you 've said so far is that some kid thinks he 's seen the man we want . |
| 29 | Mait had never seen the man before , but it was obvious that since no one other than himself had used the device since he had built it , this must be the man in question . |
| 30 | If she had seen the man I loved she would have thought him a figure of fantasy too . |