Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 2 | Each of the ‘ good ’ events can be considered as either adding to or modifying a unit of living physical matter contributing to the ultimate man , and by so doing , at the same time created a unit of ‘ goodness ’ contributing to the ever-growing power of the developing God . |
| 3 | The doctor explained , signing to the old man to look at Hector 's face . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're very kind , ’ said Conway , laughing at the old man . |
| 5 | He told William Mackay , the solicitor acting for the dead man 's family , that he discussed the shortage of drugs with other nurses . |
| 6 | Police are still looking for the other man . |
| 7 | What was he doing , prowling about the old man 's studio like a nosey neighbour ? |
| 8 | Two striking bodies were swimming after the big man , lifting themselves rhythmically out of the water with the butterfly stroke . |
| 9 | The charge stated that with intent to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Group , and while acting with the dead man , Sutherland set fire to the eight-roomed house at Pilton Drive North , Edinburgh . |
| 10 | It is claimed that with intent to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Group and while acting with the dead man , Sutherland set fire to the house at Pilton Drive North , Edinburgh . |
| 11 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 12 | Dustin spent hours watching and listening to the old man . |
| 13 | He suddenly wished his grandfather was alive ; how he would have enjoyed showing him all this , listening to the old man and reliving it as it must have been . |
| 14 | And , according to the black-haired man , there would be more to come … |
| 15 | According to the old man , the Phalangists first forced Tony and his young wife to watch the shooting of their baby . |
| 16 | He , the laibon , had heard Fahfakhs shouting at the accused man in the cells at Ewaso Narok police post before he was taken to the coast . |
| 17 | ‘ No more than usual in a prison this size , ’ the Governor answered without looking at the other man . |
| 18 | The modern trend in medicine — like the ancient biblical view — is to see human beings as whole people , recognizing that it is bad practice to treat separate parts of a person without looking at the total man or woman . |
| 19 | ‘ If you 're looking for a Messiah or a missionary , you 're looking at the wrong man , ’ says one of John Major 's close friends , irked by the relentless calls for leadership and vision . |
| 20 | ‘ Hello , ’ she said , looking at the old man . |
| 21 | She began to back out of the room , trying to focus on a picture hanging behind the old man on the wall above the mantelpiece , a weird dark picture in which an angel of vengeance flew across a purple sky lit by flashes of lightning , sword in hand , and below a man with blood streaming from his neck prayed for mercy . |
| 22 | ( And the prospective mothers-in-law must be aware that this is going through the young man 's mind , must n't they ? |
| 23 | She says she 's still waiting for the right man . ’ |
| 24 | However I managed to find Mr Jaggers ' office , noticing that other people were waiting for the great man too . |
| 25 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
| 26 | A dish of greens would be much better for you , ’ she said , raising her voice and turning towards the young man . |
| 27 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 28 | A harsh voice that Connelly recognized as belonging to the tall man with the dark , close-cropped hair . |
| 29 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 30 | It had always seemed so hard , that saying about the rich man and the kingdom of heaven . |