Example sentences of "man [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the passage she encountered the man who always smelt of meat on the turn . |
| 2 | Few , however , could have imagined that the man who once served as chairman of Clitheroe Young Conservatives would be asked to don the cocked hat and plumes of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda . |
| 3 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 4 | I 've met old men who never went to sea . |
| 5 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |