Example sentences of "man be [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 It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought .
3 A fight breaks out and one man is struck on the head by a stick .
4 A man is standing on the bank of a treacherous river at the instant a child falls into the river , nearby .
5 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 .
6 An elderly man was kneeling on the pavement , sawing a slice from the bottom of his front door , to prevent it from jamming .
7 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 .
8 A MAN was slashed on the face while attempting to foil three men breaking into a garage in the village of New Lanark .
9 A woman escaped uninjured but another man was burned on the hand and taken to Broadford Hospital , Skye .
10 Yesterday morning one man was arrested on the picket line .
11 A man was standing on the path looking at her .
12 A third man was standing on the far side of the car .
13 As the train halted , the man was standing on the platform , obviously waiting to board the train for the return journey .
14 The man was standing on the grass verge watching her .
15 It happened on the M-4 east of Swindon while the man was working on the hard shoulder .
16 A man was sitting on the ground outside his house .
17 A man was sitting on the ice , and near him was a broken sledge .
18 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 .
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