Example sentences of "man [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dog bite keeps a man off crash jet |
| 2 | It had seemed a little exaggerated that an elderly woman could move so rapidly and catch a younger man off guard . |
| 3 | Northumbria police named the accused man as Guiseppi Pino Vecchio , 27 , of Ripley Gardens , Gateshead . |
| 4 | The reason ; President Chamorro 's refusal to cite this man as head of the army , he 's Umberto Ortega , brother of the out-going president , Daniel Ortega , and as inaugurations go , it was an inauspicious first day in government for Senora Chamorro . |
| 5 | It is the account of Paradise lost and Paradise regained : the primitive state with man as homo faber in an idyllic world ; the advent of private property and the rift between oppressor and oppressed ; and the final communist state in which exploitation , war and conflict will cease . |
| 6 | However the supreme manifestation of " deaf pride " was the election of a deaf man as Chairman of the BDA . |
| 7 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 8 | ‘ For its devotees communism has the value of a religion , insofar as it is felt to provide a complete explanation of reality and of man as part of reality , and at the same time to give to life , as religion does , a sense of purpose . ’ |
| 9 | Moreover , rather than perpetuate the stereotype of woman as passive victim , man as aggressor , rape , it is sometimes said , should be gender neutral with respect to perpetrators as well . |
| 10 | He later named the man as Arjumand Naqvi , 45 , of Stanhope Heath , Stanwell , Staines , Surrey . |
| 11 | Esmund Falkes , prosecuting , said when detectives showed Yousefi stills from videos filmed inside the Royal Bank of Scotland , Darlington , he agreed it was him , but staff said they knew the man as Garawand . |
| 12 | Mr Peter Lucas , a director of Bond Corporation , named the man as Mr David Michael , who , he said , had been responsible for top-level corporation security until his dismissal last October . |
| 13 | The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine . |
| 14 | The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine . |
| 15 | My friend was followed from seat to seat by a dirty old man during He-Man and the Masters of the Universe . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's never been much of a man for dancing , not unless he 's drunk and then he 'll dance with the best of them . ’ |
| 17 | He believed education should fit man for society , as well as equipping him with learning , hence he pressed not only for lessons in drawing , but also in French . |
| 18 | Then he started to talk about Ramsey and said ‘ probably the best man for Durham ’ . |
| 19 | He transferred an inmate to the newly rebuilt County Hospital , where , pending the provision of the facilities he had requested at the workhouse , he operated on the man for cataract . |
| 20 | Two brisk , efficient looking nurses had taken Doyle 's vital signs , changed the plasma drip , and generally prepared the man for surgery . |
| 21 | But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked . |
| 22 | Mortified , all the other political leaders voted to change the rules to exclude the far-right MEPs from their new posts , especially after it was discovered that Mr Le Pen 's man for Israel was likely to be from West Germany 's Republicans , led by an ex-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber . |
| 23 | Leicester coaching director Tony Russ is adamant Back is the man for England 's future . |
| 24 | He could arrest this man for assault . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Dalian took his goal brilliantly , ’ said Villa chief Ron Atkinson , who bought the England ‘ B ’ man for Sheffield Wednesday as well as his current club . |
| 26 | The best part of Nineteen Eighty-Four , he told Orwell in his letter of July 1949 , announcing his visit , was ‘ the delicious conversation in the pub when Winston tries to pump the old man for memories of pre-revolutionary days ’ , and one might easily have guessed that Waugh would think that episode the best . |
| 27 | Hardy , in contrast , with his traditional ‘ sponge and bucket ’ approach to treatment , was not the man for Chapman , who wanted an up-to-date training and medical department that could deal with injuries quickly and effectively . |
| 28 | Julie Dart killing : Man for trial |
| 29 | flo plays wide midfield on norways national team — but i think he is used mainly as a target man for sheff utd. norw coach drillo wants to try a setup with one ‘ Flo ’ as both left and right wide midfielder , then trying to hit hard high , crosses from behind towards the ‘ towers ’ at the sides thus giving football a new dimension of play . |
| 30 | Leave 'im in charge of 'em and he 's your man for life . |