Example sentences of "[art] man [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er was the man wearing any clothes ? |
| 2 | We all would , but the question is is John Major the man to grasp that mettle ? |
| 3 | There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy . |
| 4 | Wives were less involved in the farm in France than in the other countries visited , perhaps because the farms were almost all full-time units and the average size was small enough to allow the man to do much of the work on his own . |
| 5 | And the man to do that was John Bloomm , whose Rolls Razor company brought automated washing within the reach of ordinary people and made him a tycoon worth millions . |
| 6 | Lugh was the man to do this of course . |
| 7 | The man looked half mad with fear and spoke with difficulty . |
| 8 | The man recited all the way and they were nearly late , with no time to stop for lunch . |
| 9 | When the man saw this , he began to walk more quickly , then to run , as if triggered by some vulnerability in Nicola that he had n't found before . |
| 10 | The man had all the markings of a weirdo . |
| 11 | God knew the man had little enough from his family , and she had always liked Edith herself . |
| 12 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |
| 13 | You prefer the man singing that , than singing |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think there 's much doubt about that , ’ said Mr Malik — ‘ the man conquered half the Near East ! ’ |
| 15 | Kiernan , always a popular visitor here , and winner of last year 's Dublin marathon , looks to be the man to beat this year also . |
| 16 | Under the white man 's law the man makes all decisions , and has to be guardian so-called , over his wife . |
| 17 | Stephen had no clear idea , no idea at all really , as to what he would do when he and the man encountered each other . |
| 18 | " But the man needs another £25 . " |
| 19 | Liverpool 's tactical and technical limitations were exposed by the newly-crowned Russian champions , and while it is easy to be wise after the event , Rosenthal could just have been the man to produce that little something out of the ordinary if he had been used from the start against Spartak . |
| 20 | Prosecution is thus reserved for the cases in which some unfair advantage has been taken of the girl , particularly where the girl is under 13 ( when lack of proper understanding is assumed ) , where the man is considerably older than the girl , where the man held some position of trust in relation to the girl , and where there is some element of deception involved . |
| 21 | The man considered this for a moment before replying . |
| 22 | The man threw several logs onto it , and then tapped the door shut , shielding his face from the heat of the flames . |
| 23 | The man threw more sticks and it jumped again , ecstatic , diving and swimming , in and out . |
| 24 | What is it the man has that 's so darned appealing ? |
| 25 | The man has more economic power , more physical power , a higher status . |
| 26 | Dammit , why did the man have this effect on her ? |
| 27 | ( 20 ) Jesus said in effect , " Why should the man have this deformity one day longer than he need ? |
| 28 | Did the man have any pyjamas on ? |
| 29 | But whereas he had come to the conclusion by the beginning of 1936 that Mussolini was probably not the man to play this game , he remained cautiously optimistic that Hitler might be . |
| 30 | In the countryside , matters were no better ; the smaller shops in the villages and towns often produced insufficient income to support a family , so that the wife or daughter often looked after it while the man pursued another occupation . |