Example sentences of "[art] man [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man wrote to the Home Office to enquire why laws against discrimination on the grounds of sex , race and religion did not also apply to age . |
| 2 | The man wrote to the young man 's parents that their son ‘ strikes me as someone who stands in his own light ’ . |
| 3 | He 's the man to watch for the moment — until we can point the finger at somebody else . ’ |
| 4 | But when the Cup ties came round , Chapman made another , more dramatic decision — he dropped Alex James , the man intended as the team 's dynamo , and sent him home for a complete rest . |
| 5 | From the window of the Pincushion Room he watched the man pottering about the edge of the lake . |
| 6 | The man ran from the room , and Anna put her arms round her daughter . |
| 7 | Each time this sound came the man ran from the tent with his knives and spears , but he came back , huddled and weeping . |
| 8 | The man burst into the kitchen carrying a great mound of kindling which he dumped in a pile by the door . |
| 9 | The man burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter to snatch £90 in cash . |
| 10 | The designer , Martin Storey , of Artwork , the man credited with the discovery of Trowark 's manuscripts , may be spinning a good yarn about their origins , but the jumpers are genuinely a fine mix of fable and cable . |
| 11 | the man shouting across the square at him . |
| 12 | THE man exposed by the Daily Mirror for selling monkeys that end up in research laboratories quit his job at a top safari park yesterday . |
| 13 | The man fell against the altar , trying to remove the mask from his face . |
| 14 | James in particular , the man earmarked as the lynchpin in the tactical plan , was not living up to expectations . |
| 15 | The swig merely prickled the swimmer 's gums — beach reconnaissance teams usually spoke of ‘ the swimmer ’ as the man who went ashore and ‘ the paddler ’ as the man staying with the canoe . |
| 16 | And it says that wherever we see a firing squad , we are always on the side of the man tied to the post . |
| 17 | The man got onto the ship , and talked and laughed quietly with his friends . |
| 18 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
| 19 | The man endued with the Holy Spirit is more than a match for the unclean spirits which are such a feature in Mark 's account . |
| 20 | The alarm was sounded after a member of public spotted the man drifting in the tiny dinghy just after 7.30pm . |
| 21 | The alarm was sounded after a member of the public spotted the man drifting in the tiny dinghy just after 7.30pm . |
| 22 | Gary Herman of the Muswell estate agents Tatlers is the man charged with the delicate task of selling the top flat at 23 Cranley Gardens — a cosy , one-bedroomed apartment with sloping ceilings and magnolia-painted plaster . |
| 23 | The man slept on the floor , and the water that had been spilt froze on the floor . |
| 24 | The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour . |
| 25 | Yacoub connected the device , but the man died in the early hours of |
| 26 | His eyes searched her face , impersonal and assessing now , the man replaced by the physician . |
| 27 | According to William , the man and the woman took all their clothes off and climbed into the bath so the woman was sitting with her back to the man , and the man peed into the water . |
| 28 | It seemed that the man hiding in the bushes by the gate existed only in the mind of Mrs Browning , although she was quite genuinely afraid . |
| 29 | On his release from prison in 1985 , Gusty Spence , the leader of the Shankill UVF and the man convicted of the Malvern St murder , was asked about Paisley 's role and he was frankly dismissive : ‘ I have no time for Paisley 's type of religious fervour or his politics but he had no involvement in re-forming the UVF though he stirred up a lot of tension at that time for his own ends . ’ |
| 30 | So the man gets off the train . |