Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] man ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood , then walked across the room , touching the old man 's arm briefly , sympathetically . |
| 2 | FOLLOWING in father 's footsteps , but not quite matching the old man 's gait , is a fact of life in horses as well as humans . |
| 3 | He puzzled over that , but he kept remembering the older man 's face , and the sadness in it , and the awful fact that he had n't retaliated in any way . |
| 4 | Until this exchange the violent turn in Chant 's eye had never unsettled Estabrook , but it did now , preventing him as it did from meeting the other man 's gaze directly . |
| 5 | Jack was inspecting the young man 's chest dispassionately , watching the ragged rise and fall of the ribs as he dragged in a breath between screams , and he shook his head thoughtfully . |
| 6 | Meanwhile she decided to hold Spittals at bay by investigating the dead man 's link with the Polish community in London . |
| 7 | Kirov 's arm snaked out , grasping the young man 's elbow . |
| 8 | A sudden flurry of shots rang out from the direction of the cainca , confirming the older man 's prediction , and without further argument the two boys turned and followed him into the jungle at a run . |
| 9 | IT lifted my sorrow when I saw that the Mirror finally shamed the blundering DSS into paying a disabled man 's benefit increase after a nine-month delay . |
| 10 | She was grasping a large man 's umbrella . |
| 11 | Wiping the old man 's mouth on a facecloth , Trent helped him to his feet . |
| 12 | The young nurse brought Michael a chair and he sat beside Joe , holding the old man 's hand and stroking it every now and again . |
| 13 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 14 | How long did it take you to work up to getting a full man 's wage ? |
| 15 | ‘ Me , ’ says a pretty , dark-haired girl wearing an outsize man 's shirt like an artist 's smock over her jeans and sweater . |
| 16 | We 're supposed to be boosting the Old Man 's morale . |
| 17 | As he got to know Minton well , Tindle could not help admiring the older man 's flair for living and the way his response was never dense or dead . |
| 18 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 19 | What better revenge than to disgrace him by rigging a scandal involving the dead man 's daughter , a married woman ? |
| 20 | ‘ Incidentally , taking the old man 's philosophy to its logical end , I presume that one would be expected to destroy an enemy machine even if one knew that , say , the pilot were injured or out of ammunition , and therefore unable to fight back . ’ |
| 21 | Here he sat , recuperating a dead man 's reading , timing his exploration by the library clock and the faint constriction of his belly . |
| 22 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |
| 23 | ‘ Spoiling an old man 's pleasure , Canon ? ’ |
| 24 | Haverford , exercising an old man 's privilege , was sitting next to the driver . |
| 25 | Carew , sensing the other man 's agitation and fearing he was going to say something rash , gave a warning glance . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm just making the great man 's supper . |
| 27 | His father , annoyed that he had n't followed family tradition and become a solicitor , had made the hoary old joke about marrying a rich man 's daughter . |
| 28 | Guido spoke quietly , his eyes never leaving the other man 's face . |
| 29 | Several pages later the central voice sabotages this transaction of symbolic worth by crossing the American man 's substitution of ‘ place ’ for ‘ pace ’ with a creative mis-translation : |
| 30 | ‘ Benton , ’ said his companion , grabbing the other man 's arm . |