Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives searched the area with a helicopter and tracker dogs but failed to catch the man . |
| 2 | A full search of the hospital and grounds failed to find the man . |
| 3 | I got to know the man behind the voices that people heard . |
| 4 | Clothing found on the strand along with a stray dog , helped to identify the men , said a Garda spokesman . |
| 5 | Clothing found on the strand along with a stray dog , helped to identify the men , said a Garda spokesman . |
| 6 | I always tried to understand the man and I never had any problems with him . |
| 7 | You tried to stay the man that you had been , |
| 8 | The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal both sent representatives , as did the Scottish emergency services who tried to rescue the men of flight XV 193 . |
| 9 | Sometimes Marcus thought of him as wearing glasses and sometimes he seemed to remember the man 's face naked . |
| 10 | John 's manner was off-putting to the faint-hearted , but as I slowly got to know him , realised his lack of physical and social grace covered an ultra-soft centre , and I came to love the man . |
| 11 | But police failed to trace the man . |
| 12 | The naughty monkeys screeched their high-pitched calls as the Pack Council met to discuss the man cub 's future . |
| 13 | Rescue services arrived to find the men had abandoned their boat which was sinking and were stranded on rocks cut off by a rising tide . |
| 14 | But enough light came from the landing on to which the door opened to silhouette the man standing there . |
| 15 | Elaine turned to face the man who had spoken . |
| 16 | I forgot to tell the men to thatch them . |
| 17 | Then there was silence and then Melanie began to smell the men . |
| 18 | Acting attorney general Stuart Gerson and FBI director William Sessions declined to identify the man held , named by a TV station as Salama Mohammed , 26 . |
| 19 | Above all he knew little more about Matthew Glynn than might reasonably appear in his obituary , but he needed to know the man well enough to see him going about his daily life against the background of his home and shop and in the context of his family , friends , and acquaintances . |
| 20 | This week , the government decided to award the men payments , and the move is a coup for Mr Robinson and the firefighters , as they had no legal requirement to redundancy pay . |
| 21 | I also decided to hunt the man on my own . |
| 22 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 23 | With their bare hands , they fought to save the man who had an ear ripped off in the attack . |
| 24 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 25 | ‘ Your lordship desired to meet the man who can carry messages freely into Wales , and out again . |
| 26 | Tremayne and Mackie went to meet the men in uniform , to tell them , I supposed , what to expect . |
| 27 | With visibility down to 15 yards , rescue teams struggled to reach the man , but a doctor pronounced him dead . |
| 28 | She even managed to convince the man that she 'd been sent by Roman to inspect the goods . |
| 29 | Anna linked her arm with Merrill 's as they went to rejoin the men . |
| 30 | In the end he preferred to leave the man alone with his wife rather than risk losing his latest conquest to him . |