Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunbar was not the only man who knew how to use archers , even if it went against the grain to leave too much to them . |
| 2 | France had no need of prudence , only of audacity and victor and of the small dark-haired man who knew how to make glory bright as the sun and as sweet as the violet . |
| 3 | But the real richness of life was concentrated here — brilliant conversation , warm mutual esteem , a man who had not known Baldwin or Halifax , and good claret warmed by discreet waiters on some radiator well out of sight . |
| 4 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 5 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | AN 82-year-old man who drove off to visit friends got lost for 13 hours — and finished up just 22 miles from home . |
| 7 | His father , King George V , was a tall , cold man who did not like children . |
| 8 | She knew Matthew Blake was the sort of man who did n't make mistakes often , but he was wrong this time . |
| 9 | I also have a girlfriend who went out for several years with a man who did n't wear underpants at all and only washed his jeans once a month . |