Example sentences of "man [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We do believe the information to be useful and we also believe it is a possibility that the man shown on the tape in Phil Wells . |
| 32 | The smaller man writhed on the ground in authentic agony , screaming and calling for help as the two bigger men pounded him with their feet and fists — an expert job , I must say . |
| 33 | Plane takes off with man riding on the tail |
| 34 | David , a 45-year-old married man employed on the production line of a car factory , was admitted to a general hospital after an overdose of 30 sleeping pills . |
| 35 | Oz 's contribution was different , low on analysis , but high on shock content , complete with a naked black man and a naked white man embracing on the cover . |
| 36 | ‘ Tell me , Um Yusef , they say a man walked on the moon . |
| 37 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 38 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 39 | " Let's have him out , " I gasped , and as the young man pulled on the forelegs I supported the body , which slid and toppled on to the tarmac with a horrible limpness . |
| 40 | Creggan might have stayed longer but that he became aware of a man silhouetted on the skyline . |
| 41 | Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet . |
| 42 | When should a man walk on the outside the pavement ? |
| 43 | I replied that I had watched my television all day when the first man stepped on the moon . |
| 44 | A man lay on the grass , his eyes closed . |
| 45 | There is a man seated on the right hand of God the Father , there interceding for you and for me . |
| 46 | When my mother got off the train we walked across the road to the bus stop , only to find the same man jumping on the Kirkby bus . |
| 47 | This man may be the only man left on the earth . |
| 48 | of the man left on the ground , |
| 49 | Long-serving Steve Lawson , a former Cleveland Park track record-holder , has been racing since 1974 but he has proved on numerous occasions that he 's a hard man to beat on the tricky Middlesbrough track . |
| 50 | And there 's a grown man sitting on the floor over there . |
| 51 | I remember the man with no legs , begging from his wheelchair and the younger man sitting on the pavement with his sad looking dog and a cardboard sign saying ‘ Hungry and Homeless ’ . |
| 52 | We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . |
| 53 | He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington . |
| 54 | The man sitting on the chintz sofa rose awkwardly to his feet . |
| 55 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 56 | I was near it when I saw a man sitting on the ground , half asleep . |
| 57 | Rostov asked one of the guards if the man sitting on the cart was the Khan , but the trooper only grinned insolently at him and replied in his own tongue . |
| 58 | He bowed again to the man sitting on the cart , then walked back across the clearing . |
| 59 | I like that one that 's in Beeston of the old man sitting on the bench there . |
| 60 | er , could you have erm the , agreed in front of you please and just look at C thirty that 's erm you can see the golf club in this one , at er the page thirty one and the man sitting on the lake at the top of thirty one , yes , I think we know the brochures , we 've got erm leisure pursuits like bowls , that sort of thing . |