Example sentences of "man [was/were] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A man was observed on the steps of one of the banks in Dublin 's College Green last week , waving a new cheque book and jeering at the pickets . |
| 3 | An elderly man was kneeling on the pavement , sawing a slice from the bottom of his front door , to prevent it from jamming . |
| 4 | Strangely enough , that young man was killed on the same motor bike within three months of that — killed within two or three hundred yards of the same spot . |
| 5 | A MAN was slashed on the face while attempting to foil three men breaking into a garage in the village of New Lanark . |
| 6 | A woman escaped uninjured but another man was burned on the hand and taken to Broadford Hospital , Skye . |
| 7 | Yesterday morning one man was arrested on the picket line . |
| 8 | A man was standing on the path looking at her . |
| 9 | A third man was standing on the far side of the car . |
| 10 | As the train halted , the man was standing on the platform , obviously waiting to board the train for the return journey . |
| 11 | The man was standing on the grass verge watching her . |
| 12 | It happened on the M-4 east of Swindon while the man was working on the hard shoulder . |
| 13 | A man was sitting on the ground outside his house . |
| 14 | A man was sitting on the ice , and near him was a broken sledge . |
| 15 | The spokeswoman added : ‘ The man was found on the front doorstep and the body of his wife was on the floor of the living room . |