Example sentences of "a man [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police who 're still searching for Carol Clark 's missing denim clothing , also want to trace a blonde woman and a man seen on the canal towpath at midnight on Saturday . |
| 2 | Oh there 's a er er There is that there 's a cairn there was A man lost on the hill of Kilray and there was a cairn put there . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me , Um Yusef , they say a man walked on the moon . |
| 4 | There is a man seated on the right hand of God the Father , there interceding for you and for me . |
| 5 | A man lay on the grass , his eyes closed . |
| 6 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 7 | When should a man walk on the outside the pavement ? |
| 8 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 9 | The worst atrocities took place in the corridors running off the hall where he had been horrified to see " a man lying on the floor , obviously powerless and done for , being mercilessly kicked and horribly handled by a group of Blackshirts " . |
| 10 | She says she heard a loud gunshot and saw a man lying on the ground . |
| 11 | He ran to the back door , found a man lying on the floor and dragged him out . |
| 12 | There was a photo of a man dangling on the end of a hundred metres of rope , demonstrating SRT — single rope technique . |
| 13 | A man lies on the sidewalk outside Tiffany 's , passers-by just stepping over him . |
| 14 | If a man lies on the ball and is given a good rucking he will think twice about doing it next time . |
| 15 | Three 's a B-movie actor being attacked by a giant lobster and a man landing on the moon . |
| 16 | A man stood on the porch , his hands in the pocket of his beige mackintosh . |
| 17 | A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay . |
| 18 | Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet . |
| 19 | We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . |
| 20 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 21 | I was near it when I saw a man sitting on the ground , half asleep . |
| 22 | Creggan might have stayed longer but that he became aware of a man silhouetted on the skyline . |