Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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1 | Instead of waiting a matter of seconds for the lights to change , the hapless riders either remain in the saddle , take a chance when they see a gap in the traffic , or get off and wait for the green man . |
2 | Go and speak to the old man of the woods . |
3 | put the name of your man onto a postcard and send it to us at Central South … in Abingdon where our post code is 0X 14 1SA … prizes if you guess or vote for the right man … two season tickets for the manor and five United shirts … |
4 | put the name of your man onto a postcard and send it to us at Central South … in Abingdon where our post code is 0X 14 1SA … prizes if you guess or vote for the right man … two season tickets for the manor and five United shirts … |
5 | The teacher asks the children what they know about the old man . |
6 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
7 | P. E. ‘ Bucks ’ was the ordinary police talk for the working man or yobbo — the unruly kind of person that hung round street corners . |
8 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |
9 | Concentrate on the second man at the Abbey : call him Person Y. Where are we ? ’ |
10 | DREAM WIN FOR THE QUIET MAN |
11 | He watched attentively , noting every frown , every look of puzzlement , every last betraying blink or twitch in the old man 's face , anxious to gauge the depth of his feelings . |
12 | Roxburgh has enjoyed the hype and banter like the next man , but yesterday the job in hand concentrated his mind . |
13 | ‘ It 'll be the crumbs that fall from the rich man 's table , ’ she said gaily . |
14 | fight to the last man They started firing first . |
15 | ‘ Hark at the hard man ! |
16 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |
17 | Specifically I dream about the old man 's parchment hands with their cheroot fingers , endlessly rolling the container in his hand , this movement polishing and burnishing it , an insistent but unexplained movement of the sort that happens in dreams . |