Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 2 | I asked the old man why |
| 3 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 4 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I found the young man In the kitchen . |
| 7 | When I arrived at the shelter , I found the right man . |
| 8 | I caught the old man 's hand , and cried , ‘ Now is the time ! |
| 9 | ‘ I assumed the poor man already knew , you see . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I noted the young man beside me now resting the clipboard on his briefcase was Alejandro , a teacher of Spanish . |
| 12 | It was only then that I noticed the small man seated in the armchair next to mine . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I heard the fat man who had a room beneath me retching violently to spit his all . |
| 15 | I had dropped my bag as I hit the first man , but that did n't matter . |
| 16 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |
| 17 | I rang the Big Man up the next day after I had talked to him and said : ‘ When 's the next meeting ? ’ . |
| 18 | In this instance , I knew the young man 's father would have to dig deep into his box before the marriage was finally consummated and the bride brought home . |
| 19 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |
| 20 | I saw the young man lived in Penn … . ’ 'Such dreadful things happen in families nowadays , ’ she said ( I liked ‘ nowadays ’ ) . |
| 21 | ‘ When I got home last night and found the yard door bolted I thought the old man had deliberately locked me out but the police reckon that whoever killed father was with him then — while I was banging on the door , trying to get in . ’ |
| 22 | I gave the old man a tip , and soon Mrs M. and I were speeding back to Ballina . |
| 23 | I remembered the old man in the military coat and knew I would have felt safer with a handful of dry knucklebones in my pocket . |
| 24 | I glimpsed the other man getting up and tried to break and run . |
| 25 | Later I learned the old man was Gabby Hayes and the film starred Roy Rogers . |
| 26 | I did the last man , Clinger . |
| 27 | I greeted the first man to approach the car in my broken French and to my surprise , he asked if I would prefer to continue the conversation in English . |
| 28 | I hoped the white men were n't telling him to eliminate all witnesses because I do n't believe it would have needed much persuasion . |
| 29 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 30 | The Italian insurrection was a dismal failure , one which caused the young man not only political disappointment but personal tragedy , for his elder brother died as a result of illness contracted during the rising . |