Example sentences of "man had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he had passed some inconsequential remark , but when the couple had walked on , Miss Senga informed me that the man had relayed a message from Master Patrick . |
| 2 | If it had been anyone else who had probed into her private feelings , Alice might have been angry , but this man had become a kind of father-figure to her these past years , and despite the motives Jules might attribute to him , she truly believed her employer had her well-being at heart . |
| 3 | The man had become a myth and acquired the definite article . |
| 4 | Within two years a fine-looking , commanding man had become a shadow of his former self . |
| 5 | The man had eaten a wolf before he died , all other animals having fled the winter . |
| 6 | If a first baiter knew his job , as soon as a man had ploughed a stetch he 'd drop his stick across the furrows . |
| 7 | While I ca n't give a cause of death at this stage , I can say the dead man had suffered a number of lacerations about his face and body and a stab wound to his side . |
| 8 | A man had shot a woman , buried her body in the sands , had been caught and hung for his crime . |
| 9 | Mr Ashton told yesterday 's hearing that neither man had served a day of his sentence as both had been out of the jurisdiction . |
| 10 | The blond man had nodded a greeting to her , and Carol had been aware of his appraising gaze . |
| 11 | The taller man had worked a knife-blade into the drawer . |
| 12 | He said a man had taken a lunge at him and he had fallen to the ground . |
| 13 | It was bad , the old man had got a secondary in his lung . |
| 14 | The man had enjoyed a blip of peyote earlier in the day , and there was a mild , dreamy look on his face , a look of effortless tolerance ; but his hand was steady . |
| 15 | Giving details of the situation at Konjevic Polje , Maj Waters said one armoured vehicle with five men had escorted a convoy to Konjevic Polje on Thursday to help in the evacuation of 75 wounded people . |
| 16 | Up to 30 armed men had commandeered a bus and were driving it towards Zanderij airport near the Surinamese capital , Paramaribo , according to Mr Haakmat . |
| 17 | On Monday , the Suriname News Agency reported that a group of men had commandeered a bus carrying aluminum workers 60 miles south of Paramaribo . |
| 18 | The three men had established a routine of playing cards between breakfast and lunch , draughts between lunch and dinner and chess between dinner and lights out . |
| 19 | For days the officers and men had rehearsed a farewell concert . |
| 20 | Two years ago one of the lorry men had found a baby on the council dump , dead and rolled up in newspaper . |
| 21 | Beside the Cross one of the men had torn a paper into little bits and scattered them , to a groaning catcall from the crowd . |