Example sentences of "he [verb] to the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ he goes to the holy man with a document which he gives him to read , and which he does read , and which Stavrogin next proposes to publish . |
| 2 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |
| 3 | He turned to the young man who had woken him . |
| 4 | He turned to the taller man . |
| 5 | He turned to the paralysed man … |
| 6 | But he could n't , so he climbed to the disabled man 's perch , and began a sensitive , confident probe , and discovered quite soon how far the man had progressed , and finished the work , fast and easily . |
| 7 | He asked the victim where he worked , then left him to expire as he raced to the drowned man 's place of employment . |
| 8 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 9 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 10 | The bruiser got up again and bought a large measure of whisky , which he gave to the bearded man , who made short work of it . |
| 11 | So he said to the little man , ‘ I will take the pretty glass key . ’ |
| 12 | When Jesus saw their faith , he said to the paralysed man … 11b . |