Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 2 | Two striking bodies were swimming after the big man , lifting themselves rhythmically out of the water with the butterfly stroke . |
| 3 | However I managed to find Mr Jaggers ' office , noticing that other people were waiting for the great man too . |
| 4 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he answered , standing , looking across to where the captain was kneeling over the fallen man . |
| 5 | The police Sergeant was kneeling beside the wounded man , pressing a pad against his side to stop the flow of blood . |
| 6 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 7 | AFTER JOHN 'S death in 1925 one New York newspaper ran an article describing how the Tiller business was progressing without the great man . |
| 8 | Wycliffe , in the big black leather armchair by the empty grate , wondered if he was sitting in the old man 's chair . |
| 9 | The Führer was talking to the other man in a low voice and totally ignored them as he passed and descended the stairs at the other end of the passage . |
| 10 | I was silent too , because I was thinking about the old man . |