Man-on Sentence Examples

I might meet some tall, dark, handsome man on the way, and you'd chase him off.

But sorry, they were as in the dark as the man on the street as to source or circumstance.

I really don't know any more than the man on the street.

Don't leave me here alone with that mad man on the loose!

Let me put my man on the line.

He dialed and spoke in a different language to the man on the other end.

The words were familiar, the same words he'd spoken to Dusty thousands of years ago, when he'd discovered the youth who was not yet a man on a slave trader's block, bloodied and weeping for the family he'd just lost.

There was a pause before the man on the other end answered.

She stopped a safe distance from him, unable to reconcile the man on the phone with the man before her.

Daniela knew me and there was a man on the beach when we landed.

She wouldn't, not if he couldn't become the man on the leaf.

I told a man on the phone, who didn't identify himself, that Edith Shipton wasn't registered at Bird Song.

Edith emerged, dressed for the great outdoors, ready to accompany her man on his macho adventures.

She gripped the blade of the dagger the man on top of her tried to shove through her throat.

The messenger rushed across the street to deliver his package to the man on the corner.

Tell him the southern wall needs more men!" she ordered the guard to her left before shouting at the man on her right, "Find the wall's warlord!"

What was it about the man on the airplane that she found so enticing?

It was the man who had watched her from the station... the man on the airplane.

The owner of an ox which gored a man on the street was only responsible for damages if the ox was known by him to be vicious, even if it caused death.

The influence of man on plants and vegetation is also a biological factor, which is frequently ignored as such, and treated as if it were a thing apart.

A man on joining the order died to the world, and so voluntarily resigned his property to his heirs.

With gas-firing the retorts can be arranged in four horizontal rows, all within reach of a man on the furnace-room floor.

Its ethnological value as indicating the existence of man on the Missouri in the glacial period is very doubtful, it being impossible accurately to determine the age of the deposits.

The cult-heroes were all persons who had lived the life of man on earth, and it was necessary for the degraded gods to pass through this stage.

When disturbed they go off at a swift trot, which soon leaves all pursuit from a man on foot far behind; but if chased by a horseman they break into a gallop, which they can keep up for some distance.

The yield per man on the working faces was 4.5 tons, and for the whole of the working force underground, o 846 tons, which is not less than that realized in shallower mines.

As police commissioner Mr Roosevelt brought to his side every honest man on the force.

From Irazu (11,200), the culminating point of the range, both oceans and the whole of Costa Rica are visible; its altitude exceeds that of Aneto, the highest point in the Pyrenees, but so gradual is its acclivity that the summit can easily be reached by a man on horseback.

The needles are put in place one by one against the raised frames, or trestles, by a derrick on a barge lifting them by their ring, whilst a man on the foot-bridge, taking hold of the eye at the top, arranges them in position close together.

This is the most bitterly criticized action in his career, but no one but the man on the spot can judge how it is necessary to handle a crowd; and in addition one of the princes, Abu Bukt, heir-apparent to the throne, had made himself notorious for cutting off the arms and legs of English children and pouring the blood into their mothers' mouths.

They almost avenged man on the astronomers, who had shown that the world is not made for earth, and therefore not for man.

According to a famous legend the women were all deserted by their husbands, and in revenge murdered every man on the island.

Of works certainly executed by him during his years of travel there are extant, besides the Basel wood-block, only a much-injured portrait of himself, very finely dressed and in the first bloom of his admirable manly beauty, dated 1493 and originally painted on vellum but since transferred to canvas (this is the portrait of the Felix Goldschmid collection); a miniature painting on vellum at Vienna (a small figure of the Child-Christ); and some half a dozen drawings, of which the most important are the characteristic pen portrait of himself at Erlangen, with a Holy Family on the reverse much in the manner of Schongauer; another Holy Family in nearly the same style at Berlin; a study from the female nude in the Bonnat collection; a man and woman on horseback in Berlin; a man on horseback, and an executioner about to behead a young man, at the British Museum, &c. These drawings all show Diirer intent above all things on the sternly accurate delineation of ungeneralized individual forms by means of strongly accented outline and shadings curved, somewhat like the shadings of Martin Schongauer's engravings, so as to follow their modellings and roundness.

After this we have the healing of a dropsical man on the Sabbath, with a reply to the murmuring Pharisees; and then a parable of the failure of invited guests and the filling of their places from the streets.

Above man on earth rose rank after rank of angels in the seven heavens.

For more than a generation he went about the country lecturing in cities, towns and villages, before learned societies, rustic lyceums and colleges; and there was no man on the platform in America who excelled him in distinction, in authority, or in stimulating eloquence.

The poem describes the wanderings of the bride in search of her lover, and her final discovery of him as an old man on his death-bed, in a public hospital which she had entered as a nurse.

In each case the data rest on an ultimate basis, undemonstrable, indeed, to any one who denies them (even if he be called mad for doing so), except by the continuous process of working out their own proofs, and showing their consistency with, or necessity in, the scheme of things terrestrial on the one hand, or the mind and happiness of man on the other.

When there is a man on one of them, if the beast is tired and urged to go on, he turns his head round, and discharges his saliva, which has an un pleasant odour, into the rider's face.

She had a brief impression of a man on a horse, and then they were behind her.

But demons do eat humans, she read, grimacing at the image of a cheerful man on a platter surrounded by demons.

Who kept a dead man on a shrine in the basement?

The very curt man on the line said ' No, not now, call back in five minutes ' .

She kills a man on the train then disembarks to be met by two secret agents.

But like the man on that yacht, instead of thanking you, we only show ingratitude.

He was a pole man on a Chinese junk.

No unarmed man on earth could stand long before a furious male ostrich without being killed.

It's that bit with the funny picture of a running man on a green background beside the doors that open outwards.

The man on the left is thought to be Mr F. Burn, who was appointed postmaster in Pickering in 1902.

I attended a reunion at the Green Man on Tuesday, 27 April.

Showing the upper part of man on horseback, waving scimitar, [Wulfric Spot] .

Bearing fruit that had the power to induce somnambulism, it was considered to place man on a par with the gods.

He manages to embody the spirit of a man on the verge of a great change with ease.

To these also belong the rite of wµoc¢ayta,and the communication of liturgical formulae for the guidance of the soul of the dead man on his way to the underworld, which also served as credentials to the gods below.

On the 1st of May he overwhelmingly defeated the Spanish fleet under Admiral Montojo in Manila Bay, a victory won without the loss of a man on the American ships (see Spanish-American War).

The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the sacrament.

She kissed the young man on his forehead, wetting him with her tears.

Showing the upper part of man on horseback, waving scimitar, [Wulfric Spot ].

Equip your Smoke Grenade first, then snipe the man on the top level.

The evening is opened by a man on a BMX somersaulting through the air over the top of one of his colleagues.

The man on the sorrel horse led them, shouting all the time.

The Supreme Court is using obscure technicalities to keep an innocent man on death row.

As a chaplain, I was asked to testify as a character witness for a forty year old man on remand.

The loud man on the street corner felt that he was divinely called to bring retribution to earth.

In 2001, Berry played the role of Leticia Musgrove, the wife of a man on death row, opposite Billy Bob Thornton, the racist prison guard whom takes part in her husband's execution in the gritty film Monster's Ball.

The soon-to-be Mrs. Waterman stated that "I guess it's true, things move fast when you meet the right person" or, you know, when you date a man on national television.

Starring in movies like Man on Fire and War of the Worlds as a young girl, she's made the leap to teen fare.

Here in Kyrgyzstan, with the mysterious and primeval landscapes, you feel like the first and the sole man on the planet, as if you were transferred through the time, and appeared at the starting point of the Earth history.

And we can see a man on the moon because there's just enough information there for our brains to fill in the gaps.

Even though you are using basic information about the particular man on your list, you are coming up with gifts tailored to his personality and his lifestyle.

I met a great man on an Internet site; we talked online for weeks.

Dear John,You are the most fortunate man on the planet, for you receive a Dear John letter anytime someone writes to you, but you are luckier still because my Dear John letters are unmatched in their love, appreciation and tenderness.

She smells different or has the cologne of another man on her.

The traditional marriage proposal typically involves the man on bended knee, respectfully asking the hand of his partner in marriage.

One of the girls decided to start looking for the perfect man on the Internet.

Omega's Seamaster line offers several classy sports watches for the adventurous man on the go.

Casio offers a wide range of choices for the man on the go, from sporty sailing watches to sophisticated dressy watches.

Available with thermometers, barometers and compasses, the Pathfinder is a great tool for the man on the move.

If you're a big man on a budget, KingSize has a light jersey knit short in sizes XL to 9XL.

If there is a man on the show she will give advice for skin care, shaving, or soaps.