Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very happy to see how much this pleased the young man . |
| 2 | This caused the large man who was marking him to hit him back more overtly . |
| 3 | On returning to Valparaiso on 11 March 1819 , he obtained no credence — ‘ all ridiculed the poor man for his fanciful credulity and his deceptive vision . ’ |
| 4 | Twoflower was only too pleased to allow this , since that enabled the little man to appear in his own pictures . |
| 5 | Our group of four included the one man in the party , a 35-year-old barrister , a girl of 30-something , myself , and Helen , our guide — once a guest but now a member of the staff . |
| 6 | Most people when confronted by that kind of thing pretend it is not happening , hide themselves behind newspapers , show an unwarranted fascination in reading advertisements , but these four watched the drunk man 's progress , they seemed to monitor it . |
| 7 | Lehmann , watching , saw how that impressed the young men , but it was only half true . |