Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have given a fortune to touch your hand , ’ cried Boldwood wildly , ‘ but you have let a man like that — kiss you ! |
| 2 | By the end of two hours … the children have rescued a man from a burning building , , , , handled a gas leak … learnt about electricity … and dsicvoeverd just how easy it is to be tricked into going with strangers . |
| 3 | If you kick a child all his schooldays , force him to labour sixteen hours a day seven days a week , yank out his teeth with forceps when they ache , bleed him when he is ill , beat him throughout his apprenticeship , starve him when he falls on bad times , and finally let him die in the workhouse when he ages prematurely , then you have educated a man , in the best way possible , to be indifferent . |
| 4 | I moved away from home to work in another town a year ago , and have met a man who , as far as I 'm concerned , is Mr Right . |
| 5 | She was very thankful and happy and she said ‘ I have gotten a man from the Lord . ’ |
| 6 | GAMBIAN police have named a man they want to question about the murder of a British conservation worker who was killed in a game reserve in December . |
| 7 | but they but they we have got a man here who is the first in this country , Mr to sue them . |
| 8 | Much more remarkable , essential oils such as tea tree , garlic and thyme have helped a man conquer AIDS ! ( see page 29 ) . |
| 9 | In the north you must be wise even before you have a mature emotion … ; you must develop your self-assurance before you have become a man , you must be intelligent before you are a child ; personal harmony and beauty are not allowed to thrive and mature … |
| 10 | Police have arrested a man who gave his name as … |
| 11 | Police investigating an attack on a seventy eight year old woman have arrested a man . |
| 12 | Police hunting the killer of a pensioner last Christmas have arrested a man . |
| 13 | DETECTIVES investigating the murder of a man whose body was discovered on Blackpool beach have arrested a man . |
| 14 | IN TURNING to Gary Klesch , Heron International 's bondholders have found a man with first-hand knowlege of debt . |
| 15 | Cleveland Police have identified a man found dead on a Middlesbrough cycle-way as Joseph Hawes Thompson , 65 , of Morpeth Avenue , Easterside . |
| 16 | They have killed a man now and they 'll kill another one in half an hour . |
| 17 | Do I , she asked herself , imagine that because I have lost a man I am in the same category as spotty Betty ? |
| 18 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |