Example sentences of "man [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In May 1968 , a young man registered at the Las Vegas Sahara Hotel under the name of Dustin Hoffman . |
| 2 | He carried Wynne-Jones on his back ; the old man beat at the thorns with his stick , one arm held tightly around his son 's neck . |
| 3 | But here , in this dark , with the broken figures of his mother , her enchantments undone , and his sister , her winged limbs hobbled , and the unfamiliar worm-like red man curled at the entrance of their dwelling , Dulé was emptied of all feeling except a scarring , stabbing pity . |
| 4 | The display is now set to tour Scotland for the remainder of the centenary year , taking in several locations which have strong MacDiarmid associations — Langholm , where he was born ; Montrose where his masterpiece A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle was composed ; and Lanark , close to Brownsbank where he spent the later years of his life . |
| 5 | The man looks at the upstairs window of the house . |
| 6 | So , if your man baulks at the idea of trailing around the shops , then this is the competition for you and him . |
| 7 | I know I 've never seen a grown up ragger actually , they always go no man look at the chief on that |
| 8 | Great Missenden time ! ’ the man bellowed at the doorkeeper and pointed to his watch . |
| 9 | The man called at the house in Amesbury , Wilts , and said he was investigating allegations of sex abuse . |
| 10 | Dr Tariq saw the slackened jowl of the Colonel , he noted the way that the man dragged at the butt of his cigarette , his third , he watched the fidget of the man 's fingers . |
| 11 | My man waits at the end of it . |
| 12 | The incident happened on Thursday afternoon in Holborn Hill , Ormskirk , when a man knocked at the pensioner 's door offering to cut the hedge . |
| 13 | On occasions when he is developing thought about contemplative prayer as an experience where man feels his faculties of reason and will to be at rest , informed by a loving knowledge of God , or about this experience both restoring what man lost at the Fall and anticipating the life to come , he acknowledges that he has outstripped the immediate needs of his particular audience : " has no fully seen what it is , for is opened " ( 46.319a. – 119 ) . |
| 14 | It was n't just the fact that she was going to have to make her umpteenth phone call , asking the electrical repair man to call at the apartment yet again , which was so deeply depressing ; her own personal life — like that of the antiquated air-conditioning system — seemed to keep breaking down just when she was hopeful of a permanent repair . |
| 15 | The thin man looked at the sky . |
| 16 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 17 | The man looked at the clock in the room . |
| 18 | There was a long silence , during which neither man looked at the other . |
| 19 | The man stared at the ceiling . |
| 20 | He spoke into the bookie 's ear , while the man stared at the ground , as if that might aid his concentration . |
| 21 | His first job was to calculate when they should finish , how long they should take to plough the whole field , each man ploughing at the rate of three-quarters of an acre in one day . |
| 22 | As the men at the windlass rope heaved and a long timber started to rise up and swing , the wheel on the pulley squealed like an injured dog and the man stationed at the top of the wall took a stickful of thick grease from a pot , leaned out , and worked it into the axle . |
| 23 | Suppose this chap was Alexandra 's special friend , her Significant Other , as they called it in the States , would n't he get a bit peeved if some strange man appeared at the door asking for her ? |
| 24 | Then a sixth man appeared at the door , a small strangled cry came from Miranda . |
| 25 | The man appeared at the gate ; he looked shocked and shaken . |
| 26 | A man appeared at the end of the street , shouting and fluttering his white arms : his robe billowed like a sheet on a washing line . |
| 27 | Even as the Man hesitated at the door , one hand across it while he stared in surprise and alarm at the person caught by the young golden eagle , even at that moment Woil dived forward with a speed and aggression that no Man and no eagle would have expected of ‘ loyal Woil ’ . |
| 28 | The man smiled at the girl and must have passed some friendly remark , for she looked at him agreeably before returning to her inspection of the petticoats . |
| 29 | The man standing at the entrance was in his late twenties with greasy blond hair and a stained apron tied loosely' around his fat stomach . |
| 30 | Inside were a couple of benches , and several villagers were sitting patiently waiting for him , while an old man sat at the door smoking a smelly little pipe . |