Example sentences of "man were [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leader and the thin man were seated on a pile of saddles and saddle-bags with their backs against the wall . |
| 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 | Men were converging on the ring from all directions , walking with a swaying motion as their hooked boots engaged the ceiling rings . |
| 4 | Two Ulster Defence Regiment men were killed on the Killylea road in Armagh . |
| 5 | Between July 1988 , when it is now known the department knew of at least seven cases , and August 1989 , when Geoffrey Dear , the Chief Constable of the West Midlands , purged his CID department — moving 39 serving and former squad officers into administrative roles — at least two more men were convicted on the basis of disputed confession evidence . |
| 6 | Both men were cleared on the direction of Judge Angus Stroyan , QC , of attempted robbery . |
| 7 | Crowds of men were standing on the river-bank , pushing and jostling , craning their necks and shifting position , trying to get a view through the mass of bodies and out across the water . |
| 8 | The two men were standing on the balcony outside James 's flat when they saw smoke billowing out of the 75-year-old woman 's home below . |
| 9 | When fellow platoon-members wondered why they were there , fighting primitive jungle wars nobody at home seemed to care for when men were walking on the moon , North could not understand them . |
| 10 | But the damage was done ; von Zwehl 's men were established on the Left Bank , well behind the French first line . |
| 11 | Instead of landing on a sandy beach stretching some way inland , the men were trapped on a rocky shore north and south of the craggy headland of Ari Burnu . |
| 12 | The steersman pointed downriver to where men were working on a scaffolding which stretched out across the river . |
| 13 | The men were working on a maintenance gantry suspended beneath the bridge when the gantry collapsed throwing the men more than a hundred feet into the river below . |
| 14 | The men were working on the hard shoulder installing cables for emergency telephones when the lorry jacknifed . |
| 15 | 3 men were working on the gantry when it fell from beneath the Severn Bridge in September 1990 . |
| 16 | The three men were working on the bridge when a cradle supporting them collapsed ; nineteen year old Mark Seaton from Chepstow in Gwent says he knows he 's lucky but what he feels most is anger . |
| 17 | Well you could n't er the men were hired on the farms for for a term of six months you know . |
| 18 | It seemed that the men were welshing on the Equal Opportunities policy so as to make the paper more attractive to investors . |
| 19 | Men were lying on the dirty floor , a sailor was asleep on a table and two women were drinking at the bar . |
| 20 | Former Social Security Secretary Patrick Jenkin alluded to this when he cut the benefit to which homeless men were entitled on the grounds that people would be aggrieved by these itinerants getting " more actual cash in hand by being homeless ( sometimes by choice ) than by contributing toward the cost of a household and accepting the attendant responsibilities . |