Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was taken under the paternal wing of MGM who launched him in 1942 in tiny roles in prestige films like Mrs Miniver and Random Harvest , finally allowing him his first major role in 1945 in Son of Lassie , and to blossom as a leading man opposite leading ladies such as Judy Garland ( Easter Parade ) , June Allyson ( Two Sisters from Boston ) , and Elizabeth Taylor ( Little Women ) . |
| 2 | Rosalind , disguised as a young man ( Ganymede ) speaks to Phoebe , who clearly considers her to be an attractive male . |
| 3 | The angel , disguised as an old man , went from door to door begging for food and drink . |
| 4 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 5 | It is interesting here to note that it is paralleled by one from Islam of how Allah sent the angel Gabriel to search for a pious man in a certain place . |
| 6 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 7 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 8 | Another person we thought of using as a front man was Midge Ure — who I went on to work with straight after The Pistols , in The Rich Kids . |
| 9 | Then the icy touch of the water reminded her that she had planned to cool the hock in it for Finn and the bastard was n't here ; and for a moment her towel served as a handkerchief as she mourned , and then , since she considered it degrading to weep for a faithless man , she dried her eyes and her ears and under her chin and returned with springing step to the cottage . |
| 10 | All saw the shudder that rippled through the big man like a wave ; the way his chin jutted forward and his face contorted in agony as he steeled himself to strike . |
| 11 | The cast list printed in the wordbook , however , specifies a Grand Dance not of 24 persons but of ‘ 24 Chineses ’ ; while in the manuscript score , copied separately at the reverse end of the book , is the big movement — the longest instrumental number in the entire show — headed ‘ Chaconne : Dance for a Chinese man and woman ’ . |
| 12 | Very well … and what do you think about the new man ? ’ |
| 13 | She inched towards him , daring him to move before she had shaken off the latest man to accost her . |
| 14 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 15 | After returning to Soho , Murdock was put in charge of the mechanical department and was regarded as the right-hand man of Boulton & Watt . |
| 16 | Kirtana was regarded as the poorest man in the village — but he was fiercely proud and once he had lost his land still refused to work on someone else 's . |
| 17 | Faith is treated as the odd man out , the misfit , the black sheep . |
| 18 | Picture someone being treated as an odd man out — in a family , in an office or at a party . |
| 19 | ’ Do I qualify as a nice man who lets you get on with your work in your own way and as far as possible on your own initiative ? ’ |
| 20 | Could you fall for a younger man ? |
| 21 | He was usually depicted as a young man with a Phrygian cap and short tunic , thrusting a sword into the neck of a bull and thus demonstrating his triumph over the forces of evil . |
| 22 | Particularly beautiful is the lunette of Christ as the Good Shepherd depicted as a young man seated with His sheep around Him . |
| 23 | In a famous Victorian poem , the fly was depicted as a little man with ‘ rainbows on his wings , a black and brown gown laced around his waist ’ . |
| 24 | Having seen all of this , Stoker , they say , told Irving he wished not only to administer Irving 's theatrical affairs , but to write for the great man . |
| 25 | The RAC Rally 's 16,000 miles of rutted and gravel tracks are far removed from McGuigan 's deafening fight nights in the mid-1980s , when he was applauded as the only man who could walk down the Falls and Shankhill Roads and be welcomed in both . |
| 26 | ‘ And you want to know about the old man 's will ? ’ |
| 27 | Although sometimes appearing as a short man covered in hair , it is most often identified as a wild young bogey-horse , or a cross between a horse and a bull displaying two long , sharp horns . |
| 28 | This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself . |
| 29 | Beth still saw it as her duty to provide for the old man , though he rarely ate anything she prepared . |
| 30 | He shouted towards a black man who was walking slowly along the dock . |