Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [conj] [art] man " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In eighteen oh six , erm a law was passed which said that all property of a woman went over to the man on their marriage , including herself , so the woman was no longer an individual , she was just the property of the man and she could be disciplined and punished if the man felt like it . |
| 2 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 3 | I checked on the school , and found that the man who had owned it went away with his wife when the school closed . |
| 4 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 5 | On December 21st Brenda was called by the head of FRCR , and informed that a man named Mr Sharma had contacted her , demanding his dogs back . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 7 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |
| 8 | He saw the indiscreet movement of the CI5 man across the road , and guessed that the man 's attention had been distracted after the long night 's watch , and he had missed the car 's departure . |
| 9 | These vans keep coming and going and the man on the cleaning machine is having another go at cleaning the floor . |
| 10 | The Ulster Volunteer Force admitted responsibility for the shooting and claimed that the man was an active Irish Republican Army member who had been involved with the killing of four Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers at Downpatrick , Co Down , in April 1990 . |
| 11 | ‘ Hello Jack , ’ said Doyle , and watched as the man looked anxiously beyond the two CI5 men , then over the neighbouring fence . |
| 12 | And she had dragged herself to her feet again and watched as the man called Duvall had sadistically begun to kill the boy who had protected her . |
| 13 | All Nigel has time to do is slap on the magic sponge and decide whether the man can carry on . |
| 14 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |
| 15 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 16 | Peat cutting became a major industry in the Lancashire mosses in the nineteenth century , and on maps of Wicken Fen and Hatfield Chase , you will find ‘ Poor Piece ’ , which was where the local cottagers could cut peat for themselves , subject to regulations prescribing a limited season for peat cutting and insisting that a man may extract as much peat as he can , provided he does not employ assistance . |
| 17 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |
| 18 | Davide haggled ; he got him five per cent , and knew that the man would be able to claw back some more , as well as keep some of the harvest . |
| 19 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 20 | Charlie was already up , washed and dressed when a man with two stripes on his sleeve marched in . |
| 21 | Maxim pressed the entryphone bell for Winkelmann and waited until a man 's voice rasped : ‘ Bitte ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 23 | I think we should cover Dull , and see whether the man there has had his wits cleared by the smell of fresh shite under his nose . ’ |