Example sentences of "man [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several needed help from lifeboat crews , who say they should have been involved in the safety planning of the event , and man found clinging to the moorings at the Woodside landing stage and was taken to hospital . |
| 2 | AN INQUEST has opened into the death of a man found hanging in a playground . |
| 3 | The police say their only lead is a vague description of a man seen running from the alley after the shooting . |
| 4 | This was a man seen running in Purser Road at about 7.45 on Friday morning . |
| 5 | One day a very poor man came begging at his door . |
| 6 | The man began laughing at him and said ‘ You need to get here when the doors open — there are lots like you , looking for a roof over their heads . |
| 7 | Now the big man finished gnawing at the bone and tossed it into the grass , smiling ruefully . |
| 8 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 9 | And then this man keeps driving past them and he keeps , like , making sexual remarks at them , so they pull him over and he , she goes do n't ever do that to them again . |
| 10 | Of course , I had my dreams , like all young girls , of a tall , dark and handsome man coming striding over the fell one day to claim me as his own . |
| 11 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 12 | Far to the East , a young man emerges dripping from the river Neisse on the border between East Germany and Poland . |
| 13 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 14 | The mousy man reappeared struggling with his suitcase and sat down on it again . |
| 15 | Nipping out of his Newcastle office for an early morning snackette the Robson Brown man intended diving into a local sandwich bar to sample , not for the first time , the speciality of the house ; a grease-infused , artery-clogging , heart-stopping sausage sandwich . |
| 16 | A tall , thin man stood staring at a stone wall , as if waiting for an answer to a question he had put to it . |