Example sentences of "[adj] man [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 2 | Then I came to Newgate Prison , where a drunk old man showed me the place where prisoners were hanged , and told me excitedly that four men would die there tomorrow . |
| 3 | ‘ That man gives me the sodding creeps , ’ Sam said as we disembarked . |
| 4 | One man saved them ; one man won them the game . |
| 5 | Armed men calling themselves the Death Commandos took some two dozen Supreme Court judges and others hostage in San Jose , the capital of Costa Rica . |
| 6 | ‘ Stapleton told me that he could not allow any other man to give me the money for my divorce , ’ Mrs Lyons said . |
| 7 | a new man handing me the menu . |