Example sentences of "man be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long has this man been living in the churchyard ? |
| 2 | It was a very cold morning , the sky bright and without a cloud , but Silver and his man were standing in a low mist . |
| 3 | A man is recovering in Frenchay Hospital , Bristol , after falling from the Severn Bridge . |
| 4 | This is a horror movie a fucking horror movie this lunatic is making his own horror film and you ca n't even tell yourself Hell it 's only a story are n't the special effects good it is n't real because that 's exactly what it is and the gorilla man is explaining in that hideous high-pitched baby 's voice what he has in this bottle and in this syringe and I throw up halfway through but they pause the video for me . |
| 5 | Again there might be uncertainty when a man was rising in the world ; Edward Watson of Lyddington had a personal estate of £200 , and as a justice of the peace should be reckoned as esquire ; but in Rutland , at any rate , his income was small , a mere £8 per annum . |
| 6 | Abruptly she noticed that a man was hiding in the undergrowth and some recollection of the carefree days of her life before the siege must have stirred in her . |
| 7 | A man was searching in the filth for cigarette ends . |
| 8 | The 22-year old Larne man was devastating in the Baltic country ; indeed , most of his performances on the continent have been top notch . |
| 9 | Opposite her a white-haired , pink-faced man was writing in a ledger . |
| 10 | It was as if the old Fabien had died , and another man was living in his skin , pretending to be him , but without his spirit — his soul . ’ |
| 11 | A man was dozing in an old armchair . |
| 12 | A 26-year-old man was recovering in hospital today after being shot four times in an apparent punishment shooting in the New Lodge area of Belfast last night . |
| 13 | Fat Dick the sound man was peeing in the river last night when one of the Indians came up to him all agitated , making lots of gestures , sign language , sort of swimming with his hands and so on . |
| 14 | A man was waiting in the doorway of the Winkelmann flat ; he was shortish , stubby , strong-looking and probably around forty . |
| 15 | One man was whimpering in the corner and two others were playing a bizarre version of dominoes , in which none of the numbers matched . |
| 16 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 17 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 18 | And the dream took her into hospital where the nice young man was lying in bed with his head bandaged and she was holding his hand ; and the dream brought a little comfort to the events of a night that was to be the turning point in her life . |
| 19 | " The man was lying in the mud , and the doctor could n't do much in the way of examination on the spot . |
| 20 | The car was badly damaged and one man was lying in a ditch . |
| 21 | A man was standing in the shadow behind the front door . |
| 22 | The little man was standing in the middle of the Bridge terminus , head cocked to one side as if he could hear something , fists clenched at his sides . |
| 23 | A short man was standing in the shadows . |
| 24 | A young man was standing in the path beyond the clearing just outside the area colonized by the police , tall and slim , dressed in jeans and a denim shirt — no mistaking who he was . |
| 25 | Suddenly a tall , broad-shouldered man was standing in her path , arms extended , glowering down at her with all the wrath of hell . |
| 26 | A man was working in the garden , near some trees . |
| 27 | The eighteenth-century historian and topographer Freiherr Johann von Valvasor describes the life of the frontiersmen : ‘ Whenever a man was working in the fields he always carried his arms with him and kept a horse saddled near his plough . |
| 28 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 29 | In the carefully raked stretch of earth between the warning wire and the barbed wire itself , a man was sitting in a queer hunched position . |
| 30 | AT THE recent European soccer championships in Sweden a quiet black man was sitting in the airport lounge when a group of Scottish fans came in with their wives . |