Example sentences of "[art] man [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man slept on the floor , and the water that had been spilt froze on the floor . |
| 2 | The man leaned on the topmost rung of the pig-pen , making it clear that Francis would have to approach . |
| 3 | The new threat came as bachelor James Gilbey — said to be the man recorded on the Di ‘ love tapes ’ — was reported to fear that a SECOND tape may exist . |
| 4 | The man sitting on the chintz sofa rose awkwardly to his feet . |
| 5 | Rostov asked one of the guards if the man sitting on the cart was the Khan , but the trooper only grinned insolently at him and replied in his own tongue . |
| 6 | He bowed again to the man sitting on the cart , then walked back across the clearing . |
| 7 | er , could you have erm the , agreed in front of you please and just look at C thirty that 's erm you can see the golf club in this one , at er the page thirty one and the man sitting on the lake at the top of thirty one , yes , I think we know the brochures , we 've got erm leisure pursuits like bowls , that sort of thing . |
| 8 | of the man left on the ground , |
| 9 | The man stayed on the other side , bent down and locked his hands behind her . |
| 10 | A movement caught his eye and he looked back at the man standing on the steps of the rear coach . |
| 11 | ‘ We do believe the information to be useful and we also believe it is a possibility that the man shown on the tape in Phil Wells . |
| 12 | It was there that she saw the man lying on the plastic strips of an off-white metal reclining chair beside the pool , which was undoubtedly smaller than it had looked in the photograph . |
| 13 | I saw P C pointing his shot gun in the direction of the man lying on the ground . |
| 14 | As Sowerberry began to measure the body for a coffin , the man knelt on the floor and cried out , ‘ She starved to death , I tell you ! |
| 15 | The men employed on the road were to be given notice that they would be required to work from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. , each being allowed one hour for breakfast and one hour for dinner . |
| 16 | The men lay on the bunks , all but one . |
| 17 | This entailed a dual arrangement : an ordained regular abbot ( i.e. a monk , one who followed a regula , or rule ) ran the community 's liturgical work and day-to-day upkeep from the inside , while , from the outside , a lay aristocrat assumed control of the community 's landed endowment along with responsibility both for the military service owed to the king from the men beneficed on the monastery 's lands , and often for hospitality at the monastery for the king and his entourage . |
| 18 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 19 | Confident that their management would have been monitoring progress closely , the men depended on the judgement of their supervisors . |
| 20 | The dogs ran quickly , and the men sat on the empty sledges . |
| 21 | " A woman worker " wrote to the Despatch in late August , claiming that " persistent attempts are being made by the men to work on the motives of selfishness and self-interest of the women " . |
| 22 | Faces blackened with grease paint , a cosmetic replaced in later years by burnt cork or mud daubs , the men crouched on the boat 's decks , going inshore at three points . |
| 23 | He was one of the men working on the MacQuillan case . |
| 24 | She said she was going to take them to the men working on the road . ’ |
| 25 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 26 | The problem was that equal pay was entangled with a restructuring of the work process in the Edinburgh printing trade : increasingly there was a division of labour , with certain men , and almost all the women , directed to straight typesetting , while a few of the men concentrated on the finishing processes . |
| 27 | Police who 're still searching for Carol Clark 's missing denim clothing , also want to trace a blonde woman and a man seen on the canal towpath at midnight on Saturday . |
| 28 | Oh there 's a er er There is that there 's a cairn there was A man lost on the hill of Kilray and there was a cairn put there . |
| 29 | ‘ Tell me , Um Yusef , they say a man walked on the moon . |
| 30 | There is a man seated on the right hand of God the Father , there interceding for you and for me . |