Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S Monique Javer took advantage of an erratic performance by Dominique Monami , of Belgium , to reach the second round of the Suntory Japan Open yesterday , while Mark Petchey qualified for the top-class men 's event , in which Stefan Edberg is defending his title , by defeating South Africa 's Byron Talbot 6-7 , 6-1 , 6-4 . |
| 2 | All saw the shudder that rippled through the big man like a wave ; the way his chin jutted forward and his face contorted in agony as he steeled himself to strike . |
| 3 | He shouted towards a black man who was walking slowly along the dock . |
| 4 | As he moved towards the two men , Harry savoured the moments of secret observation that preceded their awareness of his presence . |
| 5 | No one could doubt that William Joyce behaved like a young man who was English and proud of it . |
| 6 | He inherited little from his father , but his wife , Suzan , was daughter of a wealthy lawyer , George Bennett , and after the latter 's death the Le Fanus moved into the dead man 's house in Merrion Square , Dublin . |
| 7 | As he was running past a pub in the main street , he accidentally bumped into a tall man in black coming out . |
| 8 | Screams of pain and ecstasy rose from the wounded man . |
| 9 | Amazingly she found herself treated to a brief smile as Niall , hair concealed beneath the operating cap , glanced briefly in her direction before he bent over the unconscious man once more . |
| 10 | Alexei knelt beside the second man , examining him . |
| 11 | She knelt beside the young man as he lay slumped against the wheel of Sybil 's car . |
| 12 | Magee ignored the crimson puddles and knelt beside the dying man again , this time rolling him over onto his back . |
| 13 | In the grounds of the Elgin Cathedral , I mentioned to a passing man , a local , with whom I had fallen into conversation , ‘ Dr Johnson had a meal here , that was so bad he could n't eat it . ’ |
| 14 | A bitter smile crossed his face as his eyes ranged over the top men in the giant corporation . |
| 15 | She referred to the bestial man who fathered her as ‘ him ’ and never ‘ father ’ . |
| 16 | He concentrated on the little man instead , pictured breaking Gleeson into pieces , imagined him crumbling like polystyrene , or starved of air , deflating — ‘ Inside , Gleeson , ’ ordered one of the screws . |
| 17 | The opera was to be half a triumphant progress of a great queen through history ( and how appropriate that it should contain , in Act Two , a Royal Progress ) , and half a story of an old woman disappointed by a selfish man . |
| 18 | I knelt by the broken man . |
| 19 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 20 | He studied as a young man in Paris , where he became a canon of the Augustinian house of St Victor . |
| 21 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 22 | Bodie got out of the car and strolled past the two men , standing quite close to them and browsing in the window of the shop before which they stood . |
| 23 | He seemed like an ancient man . |
| 24 | But perhaps Joan 's greatest success came with a young man in the neuro-psychiatric unit who had been reduced to a pitiful existence as a result of a terrible motorcycle accident . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen him before , when he came with a blind man . ’ |
| 26 | That was indeed an honour after all THEY played with the great man himself . |
| 27 | He saw how Wolfe 's leg muscles flexed impotently as he tried to scrabble to his feet ; how he squirmed in the two men 's grip , trying to get away . |
| 28 | Angry whispers came from the other men . |
| 29 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 30 | A terrible laugh came from the younger man . |