Example sentences of "the [adj -er] man " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Do you think , ’ the elder man wondered , his face as grey as his hair with stone-dust , ‘ that the generals really want to go into the war with an army of pressed men ? ’
2 For years , he and Hank had exchanged only a few words , but now they began to talk , drawn together by the magic of money ; and Hank was surprised and flattered to find that the elder man was entranced by his sudden success .
3 ‘ It 's just technique , ’ the nearer man said , tightening a nut .
4 And yet this creature who so violates the natural order and traditional gender divisions by dressing as a man also does things better than a man : ‘ I should draw first and prove the quicker man ’ , she says ( iv .
5 Holyfield , the shorter man and lighter by more than two stone , will rely mainly on foot and hand speed and the tactics of the ambush .
6 The shorter man seemed to understand .
7 The smaller man was hit first , and then the taller man had seemed to move across to him , and then he had been hit .
8 The taller man grinned , " My turn , I suppose , " he murmured , and headed over to the bar to order another round of drinks .
9 The taller man had worked a knife-blade into the drawer .
10 He turned to the taller man .
11 Crossley 's mouth dropped open as he saw the taller man pull a gun into view .
12 He stopped in front of the taller man and held up the parcel in his hand .
13 The taller man was wearing a dark , leather jacket .
14 The taller man was wearing a dark , leather jacket .
15 The bigger man lengthened his stride to keep up with Richard 's dynamic pace down the red-carpeted palace corridor .
16 As Edwards showed , there are all sorts of ways of getting in front of the bigger man .
17 My preference is for the bigger man yet Andy Robinson has given me more difficult games that any other opponent .
18 Metro 's contribution to this social cinema came in the form of The Bigger Man , which the editor of the Exchange described as a ‘ timely ’ drama of ‘ love and labor … on the pregnant theme of the relation between capital and labor ’ .
19 And so began this friendship of 35 years , between the older and the younger man ( Layton is 20 years senior to Leonard ) ; between the master and the apprentice .
20 We are told the story of a man ( unidentified , so for convenience I shall refer to him as X ) who , though ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ had become interested in another younger man on the occasion of finding himself in a triangular relationship with him and his ( i.e. the younger man 's ) fiancée at a dinner party .
21 When the younger man eventually left his fiancée for X , the latter completely lost interest in him .
22 ‘ You 've got no style , Betjeman , ’ he used to taunt the younger man .
23 In eight or nine rounds the referee should be stepping in to rescue the younger man , unless he is knocked out .
24 Muldoon winced visibly at the younger man 's cruel analogy .
25 Tammuz faced him and Quincx Roirbak stepped back from the raw emotion on the younger man 's face .
26 She often had to act as a buffer between father and son , especially when frustration and bitterness was felt by the younger man at the lack of delegation of responsibility , etc .
27 ‘ Then who did ? ’ the younger man spat at him .
28 The younger man has adopted a contemporary hairstyle , while his older companion is portrayed in the traditional Republican style .
29 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 ’ .
30 The contrast between the ages of the winners was remarkable enough , but the award was soon the centre of a public scandal as the French press accused the Academy of incompetence and the younger man of plagiarism .
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