Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregson met the other man 's gaze and pulled a small photograph from the inside pocket of his jacket . |
| 2 | She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father . |
| 3 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't think we can do it , ’ whispered the bald man . |
| 5 | Others drifted on , passed the squeeze-box man and the charity collectors , to the girl in black brogues and red ribbons wailing of lost love and wicked soldiers . |
| 6 | Even Riven laughed with the rest as they piled into the inn Finnan had told them of , and Ratagan wished the landlord good day in a roar that made the poor man cower . |
| 7 | And I sha n't come back until I remember what the great Daybog said , " This news made the old man very sad , for he loved Yanek the best of his three grandsons . |
| 8 | He owned the Green Man , but more importantly , was an organizer for Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA , in London . |
| 9 | Chesterton , always a favourite author , was a Christian ; it was at this period that Lewis read The Everlasting Man , and it made a profound impression on him . |
| 10 | She drew in a great sharp breath which shook her shoulders , then wiped the old man 's chin with a cloth . |
| 11 | Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man . |
| 12 | Justin , who would appear to have lost some of his old charisma , became the straight man of the act — always mending things . |
| 13 | But a kid who got out not through sport but through The Word , and who would n't forget this blessing , even when he became the Big Man . |
| 14 | Mayer ? ’ the rescuer asked the injured man . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you mind if I sit down ? ’ asked the young man in effete , accented English . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's very bad , is it ? ’ her mother asked the young man in a worried voice . |
| 17 | ‘ Did Horemheb send you ? ’ asked the young man , finally . |
| 18 | ‘ They give you much trouble normally ? ’ asked the young man . |
| 19 | ‘ And are you ? ’ asked the blond man , who was watching Perdita jump the boards and execute a particularly dazzling back shot . |
| 20 | ‘ Is this true ? ’ he asked the other man . |
| 21 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 22 | I asked the old man why |
| 23 | ‘ What do you mean ? ’ asked the old man , curious in spite of himself . |
| 24 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 25 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 26 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 27 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 28 | ‘ What are they doing now ? ’ asked the old man . |
| 29 | ‘ Eh ? ’ asked the little man . |
| 30 | ‘ You mean Bartocci may lose the other two cases as well ? ’ asked the crumpled man . |