Example sentences of "man [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The man told me on the telly that is the best so |
4 | While Jackson and Dixon were performing regularly in the English rings , a black man distinguished himself on the track . |
5 | The foredeck man snubbed it on the cleat . |
6 | When the front door slammed behind them , and the young man joined them on the step , she asked , ‘ What about the Hall ? |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |