Example sentences of "a man ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above the laughter a man 's voice carried and Robert Menzies recognized the wine-merchant from Weem . |
| 2 | As he was handed back into the Tolbooth , there was a bustle at another door — a man 's face , focusing suddenly into familiarity : James , a patch of high colour on each cheekbone , red on white , his hair more grizzled than Cameron remembered , looking ahead of him with wide eyes . |
| 3 | It is curious that he should select such a subject for his essay , drawn from a newspaper announcement of a man 's death . |
| 4 | When it mattered , Leonard was a learner ; he could sit at a man 's feet and absorb completely . |
| 5 | Maggie was about to tell him not to talk nonsense when Caroline arrived , clasping a man 's elbow in her right hand . |
| 6 | worketh on the eyes , ears and other parts of a man 's body ; and by diversity of working produceth diversity of experience . |
| 7 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 8 | Narrative of Conradian nobility at this suspended moment while Stepan Verkhovensky 's road stretches mile upon mile ahead of him ‘ like a man 's life , a man 's dream ’ . |
| 9 | Narrative of Conradian nobility at this suspended moment while Stepan Verkhovensky 's road stretches mile upon mile ahead of him ‘ like a man 's life , a man 's dream ’ . |
| 10 | BASILDON New Towngate Theatre ( 0268-532 632 ) Second Stride Heaven Ablaze in His Breast rehashed Coppelia based on Hoffmann 's ‘ The Sandman ’ about a man 's dangerous obsession with a mechanical doll to Sat . |
| 11 | A cheap little tune To cheap little rhymes Can cut a man 's Throat sometimes . |
| 12 | The author 's job is not merely to offer an illustrated Who 's Who entry , but to turn elements of a man 's life into a dramatic entity . |
| 13 | Under a female Prime Minister in 1989 , Britain was still very much a man 's world . |
| 14 | His argument is as follows : a man 's masculinity is indeed insecure ; it is an endless trial , a ‘ precariously held , endlessly tested , unstable condition ’ ( p. 91 ) . |
| 15 | Benjamin remarked , tellingly , that it is less a question of what a man 's beliefs are than the kind of man those beliefs make of him . |
| 16 | A man 's role is thus within his control . |
| 17 | Family honour and pride , which are so easily upset by a woman 's actions , are far less easily affected by a man 's errors . |
| 18 | This letter written to the Daily Jang , an established Urdu newspaper printed in Britain , shows how the family responds to a man 's promiscuity . |
| 19 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 20 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 21 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 22 | It is a man 's responsibility to educate himself but also to educate his wife and children . ’ |
| 23 | Is n't a man 's life worth a hundred and twenty nicker , Cullam ? |
| 24 | Her hand was small , but , ringless and with short nails as it was , it was like a man 's . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's pathetic payment for a man 's life . |
| 26 | Greed and envy took from a man 's heart everything but — well , greed and envy . |
| 27 | For Lewis , this was ‘ the personal heresy ’ , a vivid example of which would be the present biography , which seeks to shed light on a man 's work by researching into the recesses of his mind and the outward events of his life . |
| 28 | A small distinct hole is disclosed , the size of a man 's hand . |
| 29 | Anything , Richard thought , would be better than sawing half a man 's chest away . |
| 30 | Sally explains : ‘ I designed a cropped pin-stripe jacket which I thought I would sequin but it was too heavy , so I have put bright , luminous shiny pink and purple braiding on to a man 's pin-stripe suit material . |