Example sentences of "[adj] man [verb] on the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 An old man sat on the bench by the War Memorial .
3 I like that one that 's in Beeston of the old man sitting on the bench there .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 It makes him a hard man to place on the political spectrum , as he is in some respects an avowed admirer of Thatcher .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The mousy man sat on the suitcase panting dismally .
11 This man may be the only man left on the earth .
12 He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 THE UVF has admitted murdering the 49-year-old Roman Catholic man shot on the Newtownards Road yesterday morning .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 As the young man perched on the edge of the sofa , she took the bull by the horns .
20 " 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 .
21 A black and white photo of a young man appeared on the screen .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 An answer came unexpectedly from a middle-aged man leaning on the rail nearby .
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