Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow that triggered the Doctor , and he interrupted the old man . |
| 2 | Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man . |
| 3 | But a kid who got out not through sport but through The Word , and who would n't forget this blessing , even when he became the Big Man . |
| 4 | ‘ Is this true ? ’ he asked the other man . |
| 5 | He asked the young men from the agents who showed him round if the pipes were lagged and whether the soil was chalk or clay ; he could n't think of any other questions . |
| 6 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 7 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 8 | He got the old man to come , old the same old bugger . |
| 9 | He owned the Green Man , but more importantly , was an organizer for Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA , in London . |
| 10 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 11 | He found the young man witty , intelligent and obviously devoted to Alice . |
| 12 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 13 | Tenderly he stroked the dead man 's face . |
| 14 | He helped the old man climb into the saddle . |
| 15 | He let the young man go and was relieved that the telephone rang before the Substitute could speak . |
| 16 | He let the young man out through the front door . |
| 17 | With skill borne of long practice he let the old man talk but guided his talk in the way he wanted it to go , then he started to ask questions . |
| 18 | He grasped the little man 's arms desperately and they lay looking into each other 's faces . |
| 19 | He approached the fallen man , either to arrest him or make sure he was dead , whereupon Elliot came to life and stabbed Bothwell three times . |
| 20 | Viktor stood while he blessed the dying man and anointed him . |
| 21 | He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense . |
| 22 | In case Laing was unfamiliar with it , he told the young man what he now knew to be true . |
| 23 | ‘ I have some very good news for you , my dear fellow , ’ he told the young man . |
| 24 | He told the young man to wait in the hall . |
| 25 | Maybe JTR helped pick up the pieces or did he watch the poor man 's agony from afar ? |
| 26 | The smugness in his voice was here too , in the studied way he licked upper and lower lips with his tongue before he spoke , and tapped the fingertips of each hand together as he judged the broken man at his feet . |
| 27 | Paige had never seen him before , but Travis 's face broke into a smile as he recognised the young man . |
| 28 | ‘ Excellent , ’ he assured the young man . |
| 29 | Imagine his surprise then , when , looking more closely , he identified the other man as . |
| 30 | Still suffused with a sense of equality to the challenge that confronted him , he slipped deftly into the image he believed the other man would have of him . |