Example sentences of "man [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 2 | The one in particular I 'm referring to you will see we 'd all see the Son of Man , they they 'd recognised that reference to himself Son of Man , they 'd recognised that because that comes out of the Old Testament Book of Daniel does n't it , the Son of Man seated on the right hand of the Almighty coming with the clouds of heaven . |
| 3 | He had to tempt his man to go on the offensive and close with him , sure of his superior speed and skill , because his intended surprise attack would have only the one chance of success . |
| 4 | It is the scent of sweet basil , and it is coming from the far end of the market where a solitary wrinkled old man sits on an upturned basket , scores and scores of basil plants ringed all around him like a protective hedge . |
| 5 | There was little point , Manville decided , on a man eating on an empty stomach . |
| 6 | The man leaned on the topmost rung of the pig-pen , making it clear that Francis would have to approach . |
| 7 | Man lived on the earth content for a while within the garden of Eden with all the animals and plants God had created . |
| 8 | The big man beat on the door and shouted in the high nasal tone of the Caucasus , slammed his fist into the woodwork , demanded attention . |
| 9 | The lounge of the Grand Hotel was almost deserted , save for a tiny man perched on a bar stool , who seemed to spend much of his time muttering into his hand . |
| 10 | As the young man perched on the edge of the sofa , she took the bull by the horns . |
| 11 | As Sowerberry began to measure the body for a coffin , the man knelt on the floor and cried out , ‘ She starved to death , I tell you ! |
| 12 | A man lies on the sidewalk outside Tiffany 's , passers-by just stepping over him . |
| 13 | If a man lies on the ball and is given a good rucking he will think twice about doing it next time . |
| 14 | Three 's a B-movie actor being attacked by a giant lobster and a man landing on the moon . |
| 15 | It seems that a passer-by had spotted a naked man frolicking on the balcony — who happened to be in the room next door — and somewhere along the line a case of mistaken identity occurred . |
| 16 | To demonstrate the power of the animals , a fully grown man stands on the back of the 6-inch-long shrew , balancing himself on one leg . |
| 17 | But the five-shot lead he created was trimmed to a manageable three shots for today 's third round which the English Ryder Cup man starts on a 13-under-par total of 131 . |
| 18 | He was not the most guilty man to pull on a navy-blue jersey , but he was hardly an angel either . |
| 19 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 20 | And that at least is true , he thought , because if I were a crippled old man living on an early pension filtered through the Secret Vote — and thus controllable — I would n't want any whisper of indiscretion getting back to the Service . |
| 21 | The film cuts from the Black man writing on the blackboard to the grotesque ‘ nigger minstrel'-style head of a Guy , which , as if it had been lynched and hung , falls ominously to its chest . |
| 22 | The incident happened between 1.30 and 2.40 on Saturday afternoon ; police want to speak to a young man seen on a pedal cycle in the area at the time . |
| 23 | Police who 're still searching for Carol Clark 's missing denim clothing , also want to trace a blonde woman and a man seen on the canal towpath at midnight on Saturday . |
| 24 | Well er there was I did n't do so much of the normal grafting naturally , but I was always , if there was a new man came on the job they would always learns . |
| 25 | THE UVF has admitted murdering the 49-year-old Roman Catholic man shot on the Newtownards Road yesterday morning . |
| 26 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 27 | Here Marx and Engels decided that the understanding of man depends on the understanding of men in society and history , not on understanding philosophical controversy Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations , 1857–8 The next work of Marx and Engels , after The German Ideology , to discuss the history of human society was The Communist Manifesto of 1848 . |
| 28 | Culture in man depends on the development of psychological traits not found in other primates . |
| 29 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 30 | Following another violent incident police were called to the White Hart pub , Boreham , where officers found a 20-year old man lying on the floor with a knife still embedded in his back . |