Example sentences of "man [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's a man I met during the course of my work . ’ |
| 2 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 3 | " The mother whose man I live of the house in suggested it , " said Edward . |
| 4 | ‘ About the man I hit on the head . ’ |
| 5 | The great man himself sits at an aircraft-carrier of a desk across the room from the entrance . |
| 6 | ALLEGATIONS of gross misappropriation of funds belonging to the sport by the former president of the International Judo Federation were made at the biannual congress yesterday while the man himself lay in a nearby hospital apparently suffering from a heart attack , writes Philip Nicksan from Belgrade . |
| 7 | Of medium height and build , indeterminate age , he wore horn-rim glasses and was the man you passed in the street without noticing him . |
| 8 | Reagan 's staff had the advantage of a candidate responsive to direction , a man who knew about the importance of good camera angles and could read from a teleprompter with the effortless ease of a trained , accomplished communicator . |
| 9 | Sitting quietly among his family was a man who knew of the ‘ old ’ Rendcomb only too well . |
| 10 | Harry 's weight swung him round but did not tear him from his hold , and it was the boy and not the man who hung for a long , palpitating moment suspended on the edge of the drop . |
| 11 | At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday a jury decided that a farm labourer , William Shepherd , 19 , of Cherrywood Drive , Beith , was the man who ran from the crowd to deliver the blow . |
| 12 | A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip . |
| 13 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 14 | In this way , although it could not have considered the fact , it was very like the man who waited in the shadows of its home territory . |
| 15 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 16 | Those who walked the perimeter path went behind him , and no one spoke to the man who gazed at the wall that held him . |
| 17 | There was no Madame Eglantine , only a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie , took the package and said he would hand it over to the lady next time she visited the place . |
| 18 | Her husband was a wealthy man who belonged to a family that owned a successful printing and publishing business , and the parties had enjoyed a comfortable life-style during the marriage . |
| 19 | This was not always so : in Senior ( 1899 ) a man who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar People refused to call a doctor to his child , who subsequently died ; he was held guilty of manslaughter on the ground that he had committed an unlawful act ( wilful neglect of the child ) which caused death . |
| 20 | He was convinced from the beginning that Ken was perfect for the role of the slightly dotty but romantic detective in the white raincoat , a man who existed on a diet of macaroons he produced from out of a black Gladstone bag . |
| 21 | In Brixton he interviewed yet another man who admitted to the murder but was swiftly cleared . |
| 22 | It 's nearly always a woman who talks about house plants ; it 's nearly always a man who talks about the real vegetable garden and has the gnarled fingers . |
| 23 | The man who listened into an alleged conversation between the Princess of Wales and a male friend says only parts of his tape have been made public , and that far more damaging sections may soon be revealed . |
| 24 | ‘ A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea . |
| 25 | The third example is a young man who falls into the rare category of those who pose a serious threat to public safety , a threat which in some instances exists for only weeks or months , although occasionally a person may remain potentially dangerous for some years . |
| 26 | His findings include a confession from a man who shot at the UN plane minutes before it crashed . |
| 27 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 28 | In July 1990 British researchers investigating the origins of AIDS reported that tests on a man who died of an unexplained disease in 1959 showed that he had carried the HIV virus . |
| 29 | By dissecting the brain of a 74-year-old man who died after a 14-year history of Alzheimer 's , DeLong and his co-workers showed a ‘ profound and selective loss ’ of Meynert cells , compared to brains of people who died without a history of dementia . |
| 30 | A 25-year-old unemployed Londonderry man was today charged with the manslaughter of a man who died in a car accident near Limavady on Tuesday night . |