Example sentences of "man [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadness far the way he had felt about the old man blended with a sense that his childhood was irrecoverably lost , and the knowledge that the very past when it was in flight Lived , like the present , in continual death . |
| 2 | The lounge of the Grand Hotel was almost deserted , save for a tiny man perched on a bar stool , who seemed to spend much of his time muttering into his hand . |
| 3 | THE WIFE of a man wounded in an INLA murder bid in Belfast six days ago says he is ‘ absolutely devastated ’ to be targeted by terrorists for a second time . |
| 4 | Instead of arresting a man caught with a hooker in his car , the police in Florence impound the motor . |
| 5 | A sad , tragic man trapped by an accident of birth . |
| 6 | My motto became : ‘ I am really a man trapped in a womon 's body . ’ |
| 7 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 8 | A European director might have made a film explicitly depicting and condemning the chain-gang system and he almost certainly would have suggested that the system was a metaphor for life itself , but Hollywood had made a more accessible and universally popular film by showing an innocent man hounded by a combination of events and social forces of which the chain-gang was the most obviously dramatic . |
| 9 | The other man turned with a snarl to attack me , while the third grabbed the Jew . |
| 10 | Besides attesting to the now well supported view that de Man suffered from a kind of multiple personality disorder , the effect is astounding , since it allows for the formulation of key linguistic tenets upon which the radical reputation of deconstruction rests without de Man taking personal responsibility for that formulation . |
| 11 | She turned back to the man slumped in a chair in the cubicle . |
| 12 | The incident happened between 1.30 and 2.40 on Saturday afternoon ; police want to speak to a young man seen on a pedal cycle in the area at the time . |
| 13 | He was later told his name was similar to that of a man suspected of a rape in Stockport . |
| 14 | The very embodiment of horror and evil , he was slain by a Vampire and a humble mortal man possessed by a force anything but mortal in a way still sung of by minstrels and extolled by poets and playwrights . |
| 15 | AN east Belfast man injured in a gun attack at his Palmerston Park home on Monday night remains ‘ seriously ill but stable ’ . |
| 16 | The man shot outside a north Belfast school at breakfast time was James Henry Babbington , 52 , a Catholic . |
| 17 | A Reuter photographer , Corinne Dufka , who came face-to-face with the marauding crowds , heard a man armed with a US-made M-16 rifle yelling : ‘ All white people deserve to die . ’ |
| 18 | A Reuter photographer , Corinne Dufka , who came face-to-face with the marauding rioters , heard a man armed with a US-made M-16 rifle yelling : ‘ All white people deserve to die . ’ |
| 19 | An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris . |
| 20 | Juan Fernandez Krohn , aged 32 , was arrested after a man armed with a bayonet approached the Pope while he was saying prayers at Fatima on Wednesday night . |
| 21 | A potentially confusing indefinite referring expression , a man armed with a bayonet , apparently relates back to the period before he was identified as ‘ a dissident Spanish priest ’ . |
| 22 | A man armed with a handgun has stolen around a thousand pounds from an estate agents . |
| 23 | A MAN armed with a handgun burst into a building society yesterday , threatened staff and stole £2,000 . |
| 24 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 25 | It looks like a man wrapped in a shroud . |
| 26 | Thomas Albert Biggs , a born-deaf man employed as a coachman at Bristol , was out on bail on 13 charges of bicycle theft on 3rd June 1905 when he came upon a drama in the River Avon at a point where the river was over twenty feet deep and dangerous . |
| 27 | In 1990 , the European Court held that a 60-year-old man employed by an insurance company had been unlawfully discriminated against because when he had been made redundant his company pension scheme was deferred whereas a female member of the scheme could have drawn her pension immediately . |
| 28 | They did n't want any cops pulling them over and asking them what they were doing with a man tied to a chair in the back of their truck . |
| 29 | Man born of a woman has but a short time to live . |
| 30 | Its earliest inspiration was a young man born in a village on the banks of the Nile about 250 AD . |