Example sentences of "with the [adj] man " in BNC.

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1 She lay in the sun on the grass with the dark man .
2 She rose , crossed the room and sat with the dark man on the floor .
3 One episode ends with the proud man broken , humiliated and in tears .
4 The odd , lugubrious figure sitting on a stool at the bar was now completely hidden from view along with the half-caste man yanking the arm of the one-armed bandit a few yards away .
5 George was impressed with the new man 's knowledge of sheep , appreciating how quickly he spotted a sick or lame sheep and how neatly he and Meg could cut it out from the herd for attention .
6 They 'll all be with the new man by now . ’
7 Blissett cynically and deliberately brought his elbow into con-tact with the other man . ’
8 Michele was smiling slightly , but Paul wore a scowl , and it was apparent to Luce that , faced with the other man 's cool sophistication , he felt ill at ease , out of his depth .
9 He made off , with the other man , in a silver metro type car with distinctive red stripes .
10 The other man nose first was sliding down towards him , and ended up nose-to-nose with the other man ,
11 Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her .
12 But when she repeats the movement in her dance with the Young Man , it appears in a different context , that of awakening love .
13 They have lent forms and skills even to the great serpent who beguiled Eve , who swallowed Jonah and who wrestled in the wilderness with the young man from Nazareth .
14 ‘ Where do you live ? ’ she asked , feeling a little less nervous about talking with the young man .
15 Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry .
16 Connor went off to draw a couple of pints behind the bar , as Ruth shook hands with the young man .
17 Your thoughts , understandably , are with the young man who is shortly returning from America .
18 Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like .
19 On my next visit to Southampton I tried in vain for a chat with the young man who had just won a match for Hampshire and deserved to bask in a discreet amount of praise .
20 ‘ I had a very enlightening conversation about the whole subject with the young man who 's staying with you at the moment . ’
21 In some ways , too , the relationship smacks of a Platonic love-affair — in the fullest sense of that word , with the young man learning wisdom at the feet of the older .
22 With the young man who had his arm round you in the boat ? ’
23 Somehow she again made contact with the young man .
24 I formed a real friendship with the transvestite man who owned the house where I lived .
25 Jimmy went back to his conversation with the tattooed man , his thumb now resting casually in Sean 's belt loop .
26 Cardiff retained eye contact with the blond man as he drew level .
27 Her fury with the diabolical man nearly went into orbit , though , when , once more pinning his dark-eyed look on her , he drawled , ‘ Just hanging on to him while he 's good for the rent , is that it ? ’ and , having made up his mind to that , seemed not to require an answer .
28 With the black man .
29 Unable to show his client or the Home Secretary or any of the other protagonists , Edgeworth is left with Boswell alone in his lodgings and is obliged to spin out the evening with the great man 's reflections on extraneous matters - principally the size of his member and a certain actress 's ‘ snow-white boobies of the most generous proportions ’ .
30 And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing .
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