Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [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 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 . |
| 3 | Screams of pain and ecstasy rose from the wounded man . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Alexei knelt beside the second man , examining him . |
| 6 | She knelt beside the young man as he lay slumped against the wheel of Sybil 's car . |
| 7 | Magee ignored the crimson puddles and knelt beside the dying man again , this time rolling him over onto his back . |
| 8 | She referred to the bestial man who fathered her as ‘ him ’ and never ‘ father ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I knelt by the broken man . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That was indeed an honour after all THEY played with the great man himself . |
| 13 | A terrible laugh came from the younger man . |
| 14 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Maxim ducked behind the first man who was hauling back his breath in short gasps . |
| 17 | Jackson spoke softly , still looking out of the window , his head turned from the other man . |
| 18 | The icy fear which showed in the older man 's eyes cut through Vologsky 's mild concern like a knife , chilling him to the bone . |
| 19 | But he could n't , so he climbed to the disabled man 's perch , and began a sensitive , confident probe , and discovered quite soon how far the man had progressed , and finished the work , fast and easily . |
| 20 | In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them . |
| 21 | He turned to the young man who had woken him . |
| 22 | He turned to the taller man . |
| 23 | He turned to the paralysed man … |
| 24 | He asked the victim where he worked , then left him to expire as he raced to the drowned man 's place of employment . |
| 25 | Perhaps what told him was the attention they paid to the drunk man who weaved his way , shouting and stumbling , down the car . |
| 26 | " … over backwards to accommodate you , but it really does look , I 'm afraid , as though this incident with the canal and the cat has to be just about the last straw , ah Steve , I understand from Mr Ashton here — " Smith nodded at the older man , who pursed his lips and nodded back , " — that Mr ah … |
| 27 | When you lived with the old man . |
| 28 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 29 | Or did the white men vanish from the tribe 's memory as completely as the tribe vanished for the white man ? |
| 30 | The door swung open again and a blond man as muscled as the first and cleanshaven in white T-shirt and faded jeans paused casually at the kerb , looked right then left and walked after the bearded man . |