Example sentences of "man [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 2 | In fact she had been feeling tired and queasy for the past few days ; and that night , when the leading man laid her on the sofa , suddenly turned her head and , without letting the audience see , vomited quietly down the sofa back . |
| 3 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
| 4 | ‘ A man met us at the door and said his wife Sheila Brown was still in the bungalow . |
| 5 | The man drew it to the attention of a companion and , together , they lifted the strut of wood clear . |
| 6 | Ten years ago , when Davey Boy was a mere unknown moving to America and desperate to make a name for himself , the Hit Man helped him on the ladder to success . |
| 7 | The man told me on the telly that is the best so |
| 8 | A MAN punches you in the face . |
| 9 | So Swindon have a new man to lead them into the Premier League . |
| 10 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 11 | The foredeck man snubbed it on the cleat . |
| 12 | Bus conductor , , tickets please , tick what 's a matter , mate ? well you know and the man threw me off the train and listen , he goes come on gov , give me the letter I 'll read it . |
| 13 | the man threw me off the bus and he goes all right then , let me read it . |
| 14 | When the front door slammed behind them , and the young man joined them on the step , she asked , ‘ What about the Hall ? |
| 15 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 16 | ‘ Isobel will get a man to do it in the spring . ’ |
| 17 | Gallagher struggled ; a man cuffed him across the mouth as one would a bucking horse . |
| 18 | Gathering her courage together , she descended from the gig and waited for the old man to precede her across the porch . |
| 19 | The young man followed him into the hall , carefully wiping his feet on the mat . |
| 20 | The man followed her into the Misselbrook and Weston grocer 's store in Springvale near Winchester . |
| 21 | Detectives say a man followed her into the toilets and raped her . |
| 22 | The teenager was walking through the grounds of Hospital yesterday evening , when a man pulled her to the ground and threatened her . |
| 23 | When the captain came back , the man pulled me behind the door . |
| 24 | But erm , the next one went can I have an ice-cream please ? and the the man hit him over the with the head with a baseball bat and he died . |
| 25 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |
| 26 | I could n't see why the man kept it in the shop if it was n't for sale . |
| 27 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 28 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 29 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 30 | Good League results led even the club 's sternest critic to believe that in Vic Noodle we had found the man to take us into the Football League . |