Example sentences of "man [prep] a [noun] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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1 | He was standing beside a burly man in a duffel coat whom he introduced to her as ‘ Jack Pringle , a local doctor . ’ |
2 | There were demonstrators in monkey suits and even a man in a devil costume who served chilli to spectators . |
3 | Oddly enough there were apparently no supervisors : just a young man in a glass booth who occasionally changed the printer ribbons on the computers . |
4 | Nice gestures both , I reflected bitterly , and both typical gestures of any young man in a hospital bed who temporarily imagines himself in love with one of his nurses as a form of occupational therapy . |
5 | He was like the man in a traffic jam who curses all the other cars for taking his road , but he did n't see it that way . |
6 | The ship 's engines ceased and the crew began throwing down ropes to a white man in a pith helmet who had emerged from one of the quayside offices . |