Example sentences of "man [vb past] for the " in BNC.

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1 When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend .
2 A nurse has said she was accosted by a man soon after the killing on the M-fifty , while the man jailed for the murder was hundreds of miles away in Scotland .
3 And a man looked for the .
4 Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. ,
5 The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing .
6 The old man spoke for the first time .
7 The Bishop who was now an ageing man resided for the most of his time at Halling , and Trottescliffe .
8 When they heard about the accident , the men looked for the brown envelope at once .
9 Liz , from King 's Lynn , Norfolk , said : ‘ I am just sorry that families we know could be going through the same feelings we had when our men left for the Gulf .
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