Example sentences of "man [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the attitude that women are on their own only until they find a man to support them is a prevalent one . |
| 2 | The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off . |
| 3 | Miss Julie Stott , 27 , from Eccles , Manchester , was walking back to her hotel with a friend , Mr Peter Ellis , 27 , when a man attacked them from a passing car . |
| 4 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 5 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
| 6 | Everyone sang out loudly and then the young man led them straight into ‘ After the Ball is Over ’ . |
| 7 | Blessings from a holy man bring them round . |
| 8 | You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it . |
| 9 | But people who knew the man say they think the council did n't do enough to find out if he was in need of help . |
| 10 | While standing at the corner with some of the boys , a tall , well-built , red-haired man approached them , and said : |
| 11 | He was walking with a group of scouts from Warrington down Northgate Street in Chester when the man approached them . |
| 12 | She showed her warrant card and when she explained that they had come to see Nicola 's husband , the man invited them in . |
| 13 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 14 | Whitlock peeled off several notes from the roll and the man snatched them from his fingers and stuffed them into his pocket . |
| 15 | Women are dominated completely by men , who by the grace of God are deemed superior ; therefore , women will give testimony according to what the last man told them ; |
| 16 | But police say both youths ran off after the man told them he did n't believe the gun was real . |
| 17 | This is unacceptable , man made them and therefore has the right to modify or discard them . |
| 18 | Certainly the old man will have said he saw a man robbing them . |
| 19 | If there are those in our party who approach this subject in a niggling , grudging spirit , who would have to have forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another , if they be a majority , in God 's name let them choose a man to lead them . |
| 20 | So Swindon have a new man to lead them into the Premier League . |
| 21 | A lot of the burrows are lying empty , you know : rats live in one part , but the man kills them as well , when he can . |
| 22 | This can work very well in many instances , for it is not only means a supply of fresh vegetables , but a friendly link with the family of the man growing them . |
| 23 | Hitchcock could be the man to help them achieve that , despite a threat from Russian keeper , Dimitri Kharin , due to arrive from CSKA Moscow in the near future . |
| 24 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 25 | A third man joined them as they sought new sticks . |
| 26 | When the front door slammed behind them , and the young man joined them on the step , she asked , ‘ What about the Hall ? |
| 27 | The man faced them , startled ; he unbuckled his belt and held it swinging in his hand . |
| 28 | Oh the man takes them all back now over down the . |
| 29 | I looked at the buttons next to the fruit stall because what I usually do I go and get the fruit and vegetables , if Jim 's on the right shift he takes them home , otherwise I buy them while it 's quieter , the man keeps them for me , I go straight across the leisure centre to soft clay cos it 's only open on Wednesdays and then on the way back one of them walks |
| 30 | To understand roads we need to begin with the premise that all roads are very , old indeed and that what we need to study is their changing importance through time as man adapted them to his requirements . |