Example sentences of "see a man [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have n't seen a man for a week . ’ |
| 2 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 3 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 4 | A woman had also seen a man in a boat sailing away from the beach . |
| 5 | ‘ Captain , I can see a man on the ice . ’ |
| 6 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 7 | Got ta see a man about a job . |
| 8 | Suddenly , she sees a man near an upstairs window . |
| 9 | He had to see a man about a gallery . ’ |
| 10 | On our last afternoon we went back to Tromsø to see a man about a dog . |
| 11 | Trippy had already gone — to see a man about a dog , down Tottenham Court Road , he said — and Bunny had found the other two Mother Christmasses . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got to see a man about a job , ’ she said . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why I 've got to see a man about a job . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm simply waiting to see a man about a sailboard , then I shall go home . ’ |
| 15 | Not knowing what else to say , she looked back towards the stage area in time to see a man with a fiddle emerge from a side-room , and all conversation magically hushed . |
| 16 | Startled , she turned to see a man with a gun walking out of the folly and then , to her relief , a dog at his heels . |
| 17 | I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing |
| 18 | Points were awarded for where information was repeated ; for example , for the sentence ‘ I saw a man with a telescope ’ , the reading where the prepositional phrase attaches to the verb would score more highly because ‘ telescope ’ was defined as a thing for seeing or looking with . |
| 19 | Sometime during the next day he saw a man in a harness being lowered by cable towards Corti ; heard a shout : ‘ I have him ! ’ |
| 20 | White blurs passed around us and coloured pills stuck in my throat but , from time to time , I saw a man in a room on my own and he always asked me how I was feeling . |
| 21 | A woman points one way but I see a man with a bulge in his coat and I leap on him . |
| 22 | ‘ Got ta go see a man about a dog at the week-end . |
| 23 | See a man about a dog . |