Example sentences of "man [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that the man dashed out of the room and Mrs Wormwood , sighing deeply , went to the telephone to call the beauty parlour . |
| 2 | Another night a man rushed out of the bar and head-butted a double-decker bus . |
| 3 | He looked at Nigel Steen and saw the glint of tears in his eyes as the young man rushed out of the door . |
| 4 | A man stepped out of the distant trees , braced his legs apart , hunched slightly and pointed a pistol at him . |
| 5 | Culley used his imagination to refine what he saw , and a handsome man stepped out of the half-light . |
| 6 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |
| 7 | This walk is along part of the Ridgeway National Trail , its highlight the incredible Cerne Giant — an 180ft outline of a naked man carved out of the hillside . |
| 8 | OMAGH TOWN had a man sent off for the third game in a row as they were outclassed at Shamrock Park . |
| 9 | One man held on to the lawyer 's sleeve . |
| 10 | John and Angela sat dazed and bewildered as men spilled out of the back of the caravan . |
| 11 | A small figure was seated beside the trainer and it was only when the two men got out of the car and walked briskly towards them that Kelly saw that it was Cy McCray . |
| 12 | At night , no question of sleep for the men worn out by the day 's shelling ( it was not unknown for men in the line to go without sleep for eleven days ) . |
| 13 | I was thinking particularly of my great-uncle George , the stories he had told , men pulled out of the sea half burned alive , the sudden explosions as another slow cargo vessel slid to the bottom , nobody stopping for survivors and the feeling of terror as the U-boats gradually picked the ships off until the one he was on was alone in the pattern . |
| 14 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 15 | He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail . |
| 16 | A liquidator of the best men thrown up by the Revolution , a torturer , a racialist on a Hitlerian scale , a defeatist when war was going badly , and a mind of insatiable vanity and paranoid suspicion was exposed . |
| 17 | Sadler navigated the party to within a mile of the town , and splitting into groups the men headed off into the darkness laden with their bombs . |