Example sentences of "man [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The man leaned on the topmost rung of the pig-pen , making it clear that Francis would have to approach . |
| 4 | Man lived on the earth content for a while within the garden of Eden with all the animals and plants God had created . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As the young man perched on the edge of the sofa , she took the bull by the horns . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | A man lies on the sidewalk outside Tiffany 's , passers-by just stepping over him . |
| 9 | If a man lies on the ball and is given a good rucking he will think twice about doing it next time . |
| 10 | Three 's a B-movie actor being attacked by a giant lobster and a man landing on the moon . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | THE UVF has admitted murdering the 49-year-old Roman Catholic man shot on the Newtownards Road yesterday morning . |
| 18 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Culture in man depends on the development of psychological traits not found in other primates . |
| 21 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was there that she saw the man lying on the plastic strips of an off-white metal reclining chair beside the pool , which was undoubtedly smaller than it had looked in the photograph . |
| 24 | Sometimes , if the lights had been left on , and I was unable to sleep , I 'd look across to Tom and feel great sorrow to see that fine man lying on the floor in a bleak underground room , with a rough blanket over his legs and cockroaches crawling over him as he slept . |
| 25 | The worst atrocities took place in the corridors running off the hall where he had been horrified to see " a man lying on the floor , obviously powerless and done for , being mercilessly kicked and horribly handled by a group of Blackshirts " . |
| 26 | I saw P C pointing his shot gun in the direction of the man lying on the ground . |
| 27 | She says she heard a loud gunshot and saw a man lying on the ground . |
| 28 | He ran to the back door , found a man lying on the floor and dragged him out . |
| 29 | Neil Armstrong is a good example , as the first man to walk on the moon : ‘ One small step for man , one giant leap for mankind . ’ |
| 30 | There was usually some man waiting on the other side of the hole , like some sea creature waiting to grab its prey , and after I had settled on the seat , there would be a significant pause . |