Example sentences of "she [vb past] the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father . |
| 2 | ‘ Because when Mamma was in Venice last year I think she met the same man . |
| 3 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
| 4 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 5 | It appears that she created the first men by patting yellow earth together . |
| 6 | She described the young man — what he was wearing , the colour of his eyes , the tattoo on his arm . |
| 7 | Of course , if she found the right man , and she loved him — Now why did she suddenly think of David Kent ? |
| 8 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |
| 9 | Annie was sitting beside Rachel 's pram , talking and laughing with the child , when she noticed the young man walking slowly along the paved path . |
| 10 | ‘ Fuck off , ’ she told the bad-luck men . |
| 11 | She recalled the young man she had met campaigning in the street that morning . |
| 12 | And now small and neat she overrode the big man behind his own — undoubtedly genuine eighteenth-century — desk as he opened his mouth to reply . |
| 13 | She followed the old man with her eyes . |
| 14 | She heard the two men come down the stairs and go into the kitchen . |
| 15 | She heard the dead man say Look for me by moonlight ; |
| 16 | Now come good watch they listened , she heard the robber moan , she heard the dead man say , look for me by moonlight , watch for me by moonlight , I 'll come to thee by moonlight , though hell shall bar the way . |
| 17 | She heard the red man approach , she saw the screen swell as his motions stirred the air outside . |
| 18 | She was going on as if she loved the fucking man , not just the fucking ! |
| 19 | " I do n't know why I came , I ca n't possibly tell them , " she thought as she watched the tiny man , perched up high as he circled meticulously round about on his chosen futureless employment , shouting : " Wor'-oss , Wor'-oss " to the dogs that followed him , as faithfully as seagulls follow a plough , when he made one of his grand and speedy turns . |
| 20 | Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan . |
| 21 | Doreen 's dark eyes glittered slightly as she watched the older man 's tall figure cross the room . |
| 22 | Kate 's eyes were hard and dry as she watched the bitter man sitting opposite her . |
| 23 | Shelley had been watching them , amused at this family banter , knowing that it was no business of hers to stay , now that she knew the old man was all right . |
| 24 | In her mind 's eye , she flayed the red man of his sparse pelt and hung it up to dry over a pole in her garden and then used it — as roofing for her animals ' hutch perhaps , or a tunic for herself . |
| 25 | She seized the astonished man by the shoulder and said to him , ‘ Never , ever say that again ! ’ . |
| 26 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
| 27 | She saw the young man hesitate , then veer away . |
| 28 | ‘ The tavern wench says she saw the young man and woman who were later found murdered in the forest . |
| 29 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 30 | Once more she saw the attractive man she had noticed in the High Street , and her colour rose as she recalled how she had hoped to meet him some day . |