Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Very well … and what do you think about the new man ? ’ |
| 5 | She inched towards him , daring him to move before she had shaken off the latest man to accost her . |
| 6 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 7 | After returning to Soho , Murdock was put in charge of the mechanical department and was regarded as the right-hand man of Boulton & Watt . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Faith is treated as the odd man out , the misfit , the black sheep . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ And you want to know about the old man 's will ? ’ |
| 13 | Beth still saw it as her duty to provide for the old man , though he rarely ate anything she prepared . |
| 14 | He inherited little from his father , but his wife , Suzan , was daughter of a wealthy lawyer , George Bennett , and after the latter 's death the Le Fanus moved into the dead man 's house in Merrion Square , Dublin . |
| 15 | Screams of pain and ecstasy rose from the wounded man . |
| 16 | In fact , Joshua 's retirement to the safety of his estate had freed Dowd to wander until the old man 's demise , when he was drawn back to offer his services to Joshua 's son Nathaniel , only revealing his true nature once he 'd made himself indispensable , for fear he was trapped between his bounden duty and the zeal of a Christian . |
| 17 | In his absence the task would fall to the best man . |
| 18 | Amazingly she found herself treated to a brief smile as Niall , hair concealed beneath the operating cap , glanced briefly in her direction before he bent over the unconscious man once more . |
| 19 | Each of the ‘ good ’ events can be considered as either adding to or modifying a unit of living physical matter contributing to the ultimate man , and by so doing , at the same time created a unit of ‘ goodness ’ contributing to the ever-growing power of the developing God . |
| 20 | He came to stoop over the trussed man , tested his bonds with a fierce and agonising tug . |
| 21 | Alexei knelt beside the second man , examining him . |
| 22 | She knelt beside the young man as he lay slumped against the wheel of Sybil 's car . |
| 23 | Magee ignored the crimson puddles and knelt beside the dying man again , this time rolling him over onto his back . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm afraid you really have come to the wrong man . |
| 25 | She referred to the bestial man who fathered her as ‘ him ’ and never ‘ father ’ . |
| 26 | He concentrated on the little man instead , pictured breaking Gleeson into pieces , imagined him crumbling like polystyrene , or starved of air , deflating — ‘ Inside , Gleeson , ’ ordered one of the screws . |
| 27 | The doctor explained , signing to the old man to look at Hector 's face . |
| 28 | Equally , to yawn is to act bored , to admit and even to flaunt kinship with Svidligailov , and the evil-omened word listless ( vyali ) that dogs Stavrogin , though he never uses it himself , corresponds to the other man 's terminal boredom . |
| 29 | He is not against the National Curriculum , and accepts O-levels needed updating , but feels the new system does little to indicate to the ordinary man in the street what is going on . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're very kind , ’ said Conway , laughing at the old man . |