Example sentences of "[adj] man [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was usually some man waiting on the other side of the hole , like some sea creature waiting to grab its prey , and after I had settled on the seat , there would be a significant pause . |
| 2 | Following another violent incident police were called to the White Hart pub , Boreham , where officers found a 20-year old man lying on the floor with a knife still embedded in his back . |
| 3 | An old man sat on the bench by the War Memorial . |
| 4 | I like that one that 's in Beeston of the old man sitting on the bench there . |
| 5 | Sometimes , if the lights had been left on , and I was unable to sleep , I 'd look across to Tom and feel great sorrow to see that fine man lying on the floor in a bleak underground room , with a rough blanket over his legs and cockroaches crawling over him as he slept . |
| 6 | I remember the man with no legs , begging from his wheelchair and the younger man sitting on the pavement with his sad looking dog and a cardboard sign saying ‘ Hungry and Homeless ’ . |
| 7 | Long-serving Steve Lawson , a former Cleveland Park track record-holder , has been racing since 1974 but he has proved on numerous occasions that he 's a hard man to beat on the tricky Middlesbrough track . |
| 8 | It makes him a hard man to place on the political spectrum , as he is in some respects an avowed admirer of Thatcher . |
| 9 | Oz 's contribution was different , low on analysis , but high on shock content , complete with a naked black man and a naked white man embracing on the cover . |
| 10 | David , a 45-year-old married man employed on the production line of a car factory , was admitted to a general hospital after an overdose of 30 sleeping pills . |
| 11 | The film cuts from the Black man writing on the blackboard to the grotesque ‘ nigger minstrel'-style head of a Guy , which , as if it had been lynched and hung , falls ominously to its chest . |
| 12 | The mousy man sat on the suitcase panting dismally . |
| 13 | The smaller man writhed on the ground in authentic agony , screaming and calling for help as the two bigger men pounded him with their feet and fists — an expert job , I must say . |
| 14 | This man may be the only man left on the earth . |
| 15 | He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington . |
| 16 | I replied that I had watched my television all day when the first man stepped on the moon . |
| 17 | Neil Armstrong is a good example , as the first man to walk on the moon : ‘ One small step for man , one giant leap for mankind . ’ |
| 18 | It seems that a passer-by had spotted a naked man frolicking on the balcony — who happened to be in the room next door — and somewhere along the line a case of mistaken identity occurred . |
| 19 | The tall thin man paused on the top step , looking casually up and down the street — too many years on the street having taught him what to look for — but he saw nothing suspicious . |
| 20 | The big man beat on the door and shouted in the high nasal tone of the Caucasus , slammed his fist into the woodwork , demanded attention . |
| 21 | When my mother got off the train we walked across the road to the bus stop , only to find the same man jumping on the Kirkby bus . |
| 22 | THE UVF has admitted murdering the 49-year-old Roman Catholic man shot on the Newtownards Road yesterday morning . |
| 23 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 24 | The Dragoons with swords drawn , sitting stiff-backed on their restless mounts ; the noisy rebellious crowd ; the pale-faced young man standing on the platform , waiting to die . |
| 25 | As the young man perched on the edge of the sofa , she took the bull by the horns . |
| 26 | " Let's have him out , " I gasped , and as the young man pulled on the forelegs I supported the body , which slid and toppled on to the tarmac with a horrible limpness . |
| 27 | A black and white photo of a young man appeared on the screen . |
| 28 | The other instance : we are told on unimpeachable authority that a woman is looking forward to the birth of her daughter ; years later we read of a young man arriving on the scene . |
| 29 | Well er there was I did n't do so much of the normal grafting naturally , but I was always , if there was a new man came on the job they would always learns . |
| 30 | An answer came unexpectedly from a middle-aged man leaning on the rail nearby . |