Example sentences of "the man [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man was stooped over the sign in a ragged butler 's outfit with trousers that were too short , exposing his white ankles . |
| 2 | It is understood the allegations relate to the 1981-1983 period , when the man was detained at the home , run by the De La Salle Brothers . |
| 3 | Rain was seeing again the solicitous side of Maurin , the man who could talk kindly to Durance when the man was devastated at the death of his friend . |
| 4 | The man was sitting behind the single wooden desk that was , in addition to three chairs , the only furniture in the room . |
| 5 | The spokeswoman added : ‘ The man was found on the front doorstep and the body of his wife was on the floor of the living room . |
| 6 | the man was going for the engagement ring did do er high street |
| 7 | " The man was lying in the mud , and the doctor could n't do much in the way of examination on the spot . |
| 8 | Together with moves towards greater urbanization ; more complex economic systems ; shifts in societal and familial structure ( in particular the movement away from the earlier extended family unit to the nucleated one ) , there developed the situation whereby the woman 's role was placed firmly and almost exclusively in the private sphere of activity as wife , mother and homemaker ( a removal encouraged by the purity laws ) , whilst that of the man was located in the public sphere as worker and family supporter , and active participant in social , political and religious affairs ( see , for example , Prov. |
| 9 | The man was bending over the trough , sloshing handfuls of water everywhere . |
| 10 | Alexei thought , but did not voice the opinion , that possibly the man was suffering from the effects of too much wine . |
| 11 | The man was urinating against the alley wall . |
| 12 | The man was standing beside the stream , arms folded , gazing down at the water . |
| 13 | As the train halted , the man was standing on the platform , obviously waiting to board the train for the return journey . |
| 14 | The man was standing on the grass verge watching her . |
| 15 | It happened on the M-4 east of Swindon while the man was working on the hard shoulder . |
| 16 | The man was taken to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 17 | The spokesman said the man was taken to the Darlington Memorial Hospital , where his condition was not believed to be serious . |
| 18 | The man was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for treatment . |
| 19 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 20 | The tall grass on the other side of the river was still wet with dew and before they had gone fifty yards all the men were drenched to the waist . |
| 21 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 22 | The men were shot in the head . |
| 23 | Two of the men were shot in the back and a third in the hand . |
| 24 | Two of the men were shot in the back and a third in the hand . |
| 25 | The men were treated at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . |
| 26 | The men were unloaded in the reception area at Long Kesh Detention Camp and placed in cubicles . |
| 27 | The Crown 's case was that the men were found by the police in a public lavatory behaving indecently towards each other . |
| 28 | Well you could n't er the men were hired on the farms for for a term of six months you know . |
| 29 | David Owen , prosecuting , said the men were fighting outside the Volunteer pub in Park Road , Toxteth . |
| 30 | The men were working on the hard shoulder installing cables for emergency telephones when the lorry jacknifed . |