Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry 's weight swung him round but did not tear him from his hold , and it was the boy and not the man who hung for a long , palpitating moment suspended on the edge of the drop . |
| 2 | This was not always so : in Senior ( 1899 ) a man who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar People refused to call a doctor to his child , who subsequently died ; he was held guilty of manslaughter on the ground that he had committed an unlawful act ( wilful neglect of the child ) which caused death . |
| 3 | By dissecting the brain of a 74-year-old man who died after a 14-year history of Alzheimer 's , DeLong and his co-workers showed a ‘ profound and selective loss ’ of Meynert cells , compared to brains of people who died without a history of dementia . |
| 4 | A MAN who went on a violent rampage , breaking bottles and glasses in a pub and attacking a woman and a police officer , claimed his drinks had been spiked with drugs . |
| 5 | On one wall was a portrait of a man who looked like a young Gary Cooper , hair waved and slicked back , jaw jutting in heroic pose . |
| 6 | This time Fred was playing a small soberly-dressed man who looked like a civil servant . |
| 7 | A helicopter was sent for him and shortly afterwards it clattered down on the tarmac , Bakhtiar , a thin , nervous but very elegant man who looked like a French aristocrat , with a trim moustache and superbly cut clothes , entered the pavilion and bowed before the king . |
| 8 | The packaging of information related to a particular referent can , in the written language , be very concentrated , as in the following news item : A man who turned into a human torch ten days ago after snoozing in his locked car while smoking his pipe has died in hospital . |
| 9 | A MAN who staggered from a wrecked block of flats in blazing clothes was being operated on in hospital last night . |