They passed more men who had simply stopped; given up.

She passed several men, but none gave her a second glance.

Going up, I passed a man who owed me money.

On his way out, he passed an elderly man and woman who had just come into the museum.

An example of a neutral comment was "passed a man on the street."

Later, when they passed men crying for help, he continued on without stopping.

On the way there he passed a young man, looking no more than twenty, sitting in a wheelchair.

"If you took off the filter, would they pass a man?"

About halfway along that stretch of down I passed a man on the road.

At the front door of her building she passed a man hurrying down the steps.