Example sentences of "man [pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stefan Kiszko , the man who was cleared of the murder of eleven-year-old Lesley Molseed has told how he was set upon by inmates when he first arrived in jail . |
| 2 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |
| 3 | The first of the new sketches shows a man who was seen at the docks the Saturday before with a woman who resembled Carol . |
| 4 | I told him I did not know his friend Bill and the breakfast was for a man who was staying at the inn . |
| 5 | He was a man who was used to the supernatural but he was amazed at the things that he saw ! |
| 6 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 7 | Would you continue to fight for the life of this man who was valued in the community and initially had a strong will to live , even if the odds seemed hopeless ? |
| 8 | There had been little damage to Galilee or Rashidiyeh in the exchange of fire but , not far from the entrance to the Palestinian camp , I was briefly introduced to a man who was described as the ‘ leader of joint PLO forces in Rashidiyeh . |
| 9 | The sound that had made O look up came from a man who was sitting on the floor , leaning against the wall of the tunnel , looking not much like a beggar , but just someone worn out ; perhaps he had collapsed there and was resting . |
| 10 | PC Donald Lucey approached a man who was sitting on the central reservation of the A Four-One-Nine at Calcutt near Swindon . |
| 11 | Brian was an intelligent , articulate and self-motivated man who was admitted to the intensive care unit ( ICU ) at Leicester Royal Infirmary with Guillain-Barré syndrome . |
| 12 | He saw that two men were now holding me , pushing me down and punching me and he recognized the man who was walking up the stairs . |
| 13 | The first was a short man who was walking along the street , and the second was a little girl who was running as fast as she could . |
| 14 | Police have spoken to a man who was found outside the cottage when the fire service arrived . |
| 15 | Police have spoken to a man who was found outside the cottage when the fire service arrived . |
| 16 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 17 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |
| 18 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 19 | This man he was spoken to the night afore and another one . |
| 20 | No doubt there were also older men who were farming in the township , but most farms were smallholdings and their occupants were usually described by their craft names . |
| 21 | In addition to this the men who were passing through the camp after the first year often had a different view of the war from those who had been there since before the fall of France . |
| 22 | The poem was n't written to give a realistic account of war but to glorify those men who were killed in the war , to give some comfort to their friends and relatives . |
| 23 | If the doctrine was broken and officials could explain their views freely in public , then ministers would have the much more formidable task of making their case against men who were seized of the key counterpoints and who knew that their arguments were accepted by many in the ministry . |
| 24 | We needed young men who were dragooned into the services in the fourteen/eighteen war and erm who never came back , and we needed a lot of them . |
| 25 | The construction of such a large building was welcomed by the people of Louth , especially as it would create jobs for many men who were returning from the war . |
| 26 | These ‘ Masters ’ were said to be the hidden wise men who were spread around the world with the aim of bringing in a New World Order . |
| 27 | As the horses were pulled to a halt , he jumped out of the coach and stood in front of the band of men who were trudging up the hill . |
| 28 | The two men who were fighting for the title met privately . |
| 29 | The only occupants of the room were a couple of young men who were sitting at the table , smoking Turkish cigarettes . |
| 30 | For instance , I was one of several born in Ipswich you see , and I had advantage over a lot of men who were released from the Guards to come here . |