Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Do you know , years ago I asked a wise man who lived in a cave outside Alexandria why this happens ? |
| 2 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 3 | I asked the old man why |
| 4 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 5 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 6 | Three years ago I met a marvellous man , we married and had a daughter . |
| 7 | I met an old man by the sea , |
| 8 | ‘ I met an old man today , one of the down-and-outs , on my way back , ’ Stuart had said once at home , while his mother was getting ready to go out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I passed an old man cutting back the undergrowth with a rusty scythe . |
| 11 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 12 | I found a better man than Dudley , James . |
| 13 | On arrival I found a young man from the GLC equipped with a magic lantern , slides , wall plans and all other relevant data . |
| 14 | Father , on my way back , on the path from the ferry and through the wood , I found a dead man . |
| 15 | I found the young man In the kitchen . |
| 16 | When I arrived at the shelter , I found the right man . |
| 17 | I caught the old man 's hand , and cried , ‘ Now is the time ! |
| 18 | I seen a blind man once — he 'd got a stick so he could tap the pavement so he did n't fall down no holes . |
| 19 | ‘ I assumed the poor man already knew , you see . |
| 20 | Yes , I told the old man at the gate — a sure method of propagating the lie — I was off to Hydra for the week-end . |
| 21 | I recalled an old man I had seen that afternoon , standing by a well . |
| 22 | I noted the young man beside me now resting the clipboard on his briefcase was Alejandro , a teacher of Spanish . |
| 23 | It was only then that I noticed the small man seated in the armchair next to mine . |
| 24 | I imagined the fat man 's wife , a fat woman , making her way alone through the palm trees , tearing a strip from her dress and tying it to the shrine . |
| 25 | At sixteen I discovered an old man who exhibited silent films in villages . |
| 26 | Whether I pay or go free , whatever the cost , I will not let it be said I killed a decent man to keep him from accusing me . |
| 27 | I heard a wise man say , |
| 28 | I heard the fat man who had a room beneath me retching violently to spit his all . |
| 29 | I had dropped my bag as I hit the first man , but that did n't matter . |
| 30 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |