Example sentences of "man [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did that with the neeps so that when the man came along with a cart they could throw them , you see . |
| 2 | ‘ A young man came along on a bicycle and asked me if he could help but I refused his offer . |
| 3 | The door opened , and the man came in with a woman doctor . |
| 4 | As I entered , a man came out of a side room and I knew immediately he must be Long John . |
| 5 | As she waited at the only traffic lights in the main street , her attention was caught as a man came out from a hardware shop . |
| 6 | The man broke off with a shudder . |
| 7 | This man went out with a pouch and gathered up owl-pellets , which he labelled , and later , took apart with forceps , bathed in glass beakers of various cleansing fluids , ordering and rearranging the orts and fragments of the owl 's compressed package of bone , tooth and fur , in order to reconstitute the dead shrew or slow-worm which had run , died , and made its way through owl-gut . |
| 8 | A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river . |
| 9 | Just then a big man ran out of a beer shop , followed by a white dog . |
| 10 | The other car was ultimately forced to stop , and a young man ran off into a field . |
| 11 | A MIDDLESBROUGH man struck out with a hammer at a man who was attacking his 65-year-old friend , a court heard . |
| 12 | Well the man travelled round the man travelled round with a pony , riding a pony and the stallion walking alongside you see . |
| 13 | The old man sat up with a jerk , slopping scotch over his hands which I noticed were shaking . |
| 14 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
| 15 | All suitors he challenged to a race : the young man set out in a chariot with the girl , while the father sacrificed a ram on the altar of Zeus in the Altis . |