Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | venerable old Jew whose noble nature and gratitude to Fledgeby for releasing him from debts owed to Fledgeby 's father cause him to serve the young man devotedly as agent for Pubsey & Co . |
| 2 | The judge publicly rebuked the jury , and wrote to the Governor , J. West Ridgeway , asking him to pardon the convicted men . |
| 3 | ‘ Never leave home without one , ’ she said with a grim laugh , and helped him drag the unconscious man on to the floor . |
| 4 | Go and see the reaction of the people who witnessed him cure the blind man Blind Bartiamaus or Bethsiedum Go and check out what the woman who with a haemorrhage had to say about him . |
| 5 | It must be killing him to have the Old Man expecting him to play barman to me ! |
| 6 | CARING schoolmates of leukaemia victim Mark Lowry are going bald to stop him feeling the odd man out . |
| 7 | Somehow that triggered the Doctor , and he interrupted the old man . |
| 8 | Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man . |
| 9 | But a kid who got out not through sport but through The Word , and who would n't forget this blessing , even when he became the Big Man . |
| 10 | ‘ Is this true ? ’ he asked the other man . |
| 11 | He asked the young men from the agents who showed him round if the pipes were lagged and whether the soil was chalk or clay ; he could n't think of any other questions . |
| 12 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 13 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 14 | He got the old man to come , old the same old bugger . |
| 15 | He owned the Green Man , but more importantly , was an organizer for Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA , in London . |
| 16 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 17 | He found the young man witty , intelligent and obviously devoted to Alice . |
| 18 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 19 | Tenderly he stroked the dead man 's face . |
| 20 | He helped the old man climb into the saddle . |
| 21 | He let the young man go and was relieved that the telephone rang before the Substitute could speak . |
| 22 | He let the young man out through the front door . |
| 23 | With skill borne of long practice he let the old man talk but guided his talk in the way he wanted it to go , then he started to ask questions . |
| 24 | He grasped the little man 's arms desperately and they lay looking into each other 's faces . |
| 25 | He approached the fallen man , either to arrest him or make sure he was dead , whereupon Elliot came to life and stabbed Bothwell three times . |
| 26 | Viktor stood while he blessed the dying man and anointed him . |
| 27 | He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense . |
| 28 | In case Laing was unfamiliar with it , he told the young man what he now knew to be true . |
| 29 | ‘ I have some very good news for you , my dear fellow , ’ he told the young man . |
| 30 | He told the young man to wait in the hall . |