Example sentences of "man [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three 's a B-movie actor being attacked by a giant lobster and a man landing on the moon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 6 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | I saw P C pointing his shot gun in the direction of the man lying on the ground . |
| 12 | She says she heard a loud gunshot and saw a man lying on the ground . |
| 13 | He ran to the back door , found a man lying on the floor and dragged him out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Plane takes off with man riding on the tail |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And there 's a grown man sitting on the floor over there . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . |
| 22 | He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington . |
| 23 | The man sitting on the chintz sofa rose awkwardly to his feet . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I was near it when I saw a man sitting on the ground , half asleep . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He bowed again to the man sitting on the cart , then walked back across the clearing . |
| 28 | I like that one that 's in Beeston of the old man sitting on the bench there . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The other instance : we are told on unimpeachable authority that a woman is looking forward to the birth of her daughter ; years later we read of a young man arriving on the scene . |