Example sentences of "man [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pictures of a man were flashed upon the screen in rapid succession . |
| 2 | At one wedding the bridegroom and best man were standing on the wrong place , with the best man prompting a tongue-tied groom in a stage whisper . |
| 3 | Again there might be uncertainty when a man was rising in the world ; Edward Watson of Lyddington had a personal estate of £200 , and as a justice of the peace should be reckoned as esquire ; but in Rutland , at any rate , his income was small , a mere £8 per annum . |
| 4 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 5 | The 72-year-old ex-fibres man was honoured by the Queen in February , receiving the MBE at a Buckingham Palace investiture . |
| 6 | One man was charged following the incident . |
| 7 | One man was lost in the Mexican desert for eight days , having had only enough water with him for one day . |
| 8 | Man was made for the state , and not the state for the man . |
| 9 | A man was observed on the steps of one of the banks in Dublin 's College Green last week , waving a new cheque book and jeering at the pickets . |
| 10 | Abruptly she noticed that a man was hiding in the undergrowth and some recollection of the carefree days of her life before the siege must have stirred in her . |
| 11 | For example , in 1975 a man was appointed to the High Court at the relatively late age of 62 . |
| 12 | A soft-faced old man was framed by the double doors that opened on to a room of unparalleled luxury . |
| 13 | COMMUTERS watched in horror as a man was stabbed in the face on a train platform yesterday . |
| 14 | A MAN was stabbed in the stomach yesterday after chasing two suspected car thieves . |
| 15 | A TEENAGER is due to appear before Colchester magistrates today following a domestic dispute during which a man was stabbed in the chest . |
| 16 | One man was searched inside the lounge by police and led away . |
| 17 | An elderly man was kneeling on the pavement , sawing a slice from the bottom of his front door , to prevent it from jamming . |
| 18 | A man was searching in the filth for cigarette ends . |
| 19 | Ignored by the Academy , Little Big Man was acknowledged by The New York Critics and The National Society of Film Critics , who selected Chief Dan George as their Best Supporting Actor , and Harvard Lampoon presented the picture with their annual Twenty Cent Token ‘ to that film which does the most fashionable injustice to a minority class ’ . |
| 20 | Armed police staged a dawn raid on the Cranham Hall site in Little Waltham yesterday after a man was shot in the leg . |
| 21 | A man was shot in the leg and money was stolen . |
| 22 | The 32-year-old man was shot in the stomach after being robbed of just 26p . |
| 23 | The man was stooped over the sign in a ragged butler 's outfit with trousers that were too short , exposing his white ankles . |
| 24 | The 22-year old Larne man was devastating in the Baltic country ; indeed , most of his performances on the continent have been top notch . |
| 25 | Chapman 's appreciation of individual strengths and weaknesses meant that each man was played in the position that best suited and developed his talents . |
| 26 | Strangely enough , that young man was killed on the same motor bike within three months of that — killed within two or three hundred yards of the same spot . |
| 27 | One man was killed in the attack on the Europa Hotel . |
| 28 | Another man was killed in the ridiculous filming . |
| 29 | On Jan 25 one man was killed in the eastern town of Talvan during nationwide anti-war protests . |
| 30 | Twelve hours later on Feb. 3 a Protestant delivery man was killed by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) at Dungannon in County Tyrone . |