Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He shouted towards a black man who was walking slowly along the dock . |
| 3 | No one could doubt that William Joyce behaved like a young man who was English and proud of it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As he was running past a pub in the main street , he accidentally bumped into a tall man in black coming out . |
| 6 | Screams of pain and ecstasy rose from the wounded man . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Alexei knelt beside the second man , examining him . |
| 9 | She knelt beside the young man as he lay slumped against the wheel of Sybil 's car . |
| 10 | Magee ignored the crimson puddles and knelt beside the dying man again , this time rolling him over onto his back . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | She referred to the bestial man who fathered her as ‘ him ’ and never ‘ father ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I knelt by the broken man . |
| 16 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 17 | He studied as a young man in Paris , where he became a canon of the Augustinian house of St Victor . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He seemed like an ancient man . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've seen him before , when he came with a blind man . ’ |
| 22 | That was indeed an honour after all THEY played with the great man himself . |
| 23 | A terrible laugh came from the younger man . |
| 24 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 25 | At last she came across a white man , nonchalantly lighting his cigarette from a twelve-inch flame shooting out of a gas jet , who was prepared to answer her question . |
| 26 | Cadfael kneeled behind the dead man 's shoulders , and looked closely at the indented wound , in which white points of bone showed in the centre of the encrusted blood . |
| 27 | The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man . |
| 28 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 29 | Suddenly , the barrel shook as a heavy man sat down and rested his shoulders against it . |
| 30 | Maxim ducked behind the first man who was hauling back his breath in short gasps . |