Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] man [unc] " in BNC.

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1 On the high mantel shelf above what had once been the fireplace was a black and white photograph of a young man 's head .
2 As they broke bread it spurted and dripped blood , and their mirth was the rattle in a dying man 's throat .
3 In John v. Matthews ( 1970 D.C. ) a packet of cigarettes , displayed in the bar of a working men 's club bore the statement ‘ 3d. off . ’
4 Do n't entirely rule out the ultimate staging of a joint men 's and women 's event .
5 TWO men , aged 22 and 28 , are expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court today after being arrested in connection with the discovery of a 35-year-old man 's body in a sewage works at Bothwell .
6 A mid-week meeting with a member of Diana 's circle in the incongruous circumstances of a working men 's cafe in North Ruislip outside London was the turning point .
7 True to historical precedent , it required a white rock musician to have a hit with a black man 's song — in this case Eric Clapton with ‘ I Shot the Sheriff ’ — before the breakthrough could occur ; but at length Bob Marley became the first reggae superstar .
8 A young , unescorted girl in a grubby man 's raincoat , taking a 3/6d. seat when the last programme was half-over , upset , for them , the natural order of things .
9 I sort of looked on the on the board and saw a thirteen two pony for sale been shown last year so it 's probably a sort of a working man 's pony , you know , that sort of class .
10 THE front room of a dying man 's home yesterday became a makeshift court for the initial stages of his legal battle with the tobacco industry .
11 The 52nd-minute header was his first Premier League goal and the blue hordes massed in the new Bridgford End stand , that looks from the outside like a poor man 's Pompidou Centre , went wild .
12 She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice .
13 To get to that point , there was a quantum leap to be achieved , the proverbial turning point in a young man 's life when fate or some other thing takes a hand , and it was at this point in time that June — whom he says he still believed was his sister — reappeared in the story as a catalyst to a decision that would ultimately prove to be the most important in his life .
14 It 's summer 1992 , a poetry reading evening in a working men 's club .
15 And at the same time , since Svidrigailov too has been brushed against in this reaching back which is also a reaching forward , the incident of the governor 's ear can be understood in all its matchless comedy as a desperate man 's recourse against boredom .
16 The Sports Council recently awarded £200,000 towards the development of a British men 's team , with the aim of qualifying for the Olympics .
17 On the Asylum wall of Trobarrow Quarry , Dave Bates took a diagonal line to produce Diary of a Sane Man E7 6b , 100′ .
18 However we have seen that quantum theory places considerable restraint on a plain man 's objectivist view of the natural world .
19 If I had a little money in a rich man 's world .
20 The move won Gordon the heavyweight Open title and provided a much-needed lift for a British men 's team who were inevitably overshadowed by the success of the women .
21 She does not deny the philosophical impetus toward a Horatian retirement , but suggests that garden retreats often had less to do with spiritual delights than with ‘ the bodily and social pleasures of a fashionable men 's club transposed to rural surroundings …
22 The union really wanted women out of the trade , but in public statements like Mr Battersby 's after-dinner speech , said that they were prepared to settle for equal pay ; while the women regarded the latter call as unrealistic if not hypocritical , since they felt ( and were daily told ) that they were not doing the equivalent of a skilled man 's work ( though even they thought the differentials too high ) .
23 Both Atticus and Judge Taylor realise that the case is lost before that trial even begins because they realise that because the jury is all white , they can not convict a black man against a white man 's word .
24 Twenty years ago a poor vicar fell in love with a rich man 's daughter .
25 On one of Lucky Town ‘ s best songs , Better Days , he has the wit to sing : ‘ It 's a sad funny ending to find yourself pretending / a rich man in a poor man 's shirt . ’
26 It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes .
27 Eliot 's stone images which ‘ receive/ The supplication of a dead man 's hand ’ epitomize the dying embers of rites reduced to meaninglessness .
28 What he asked was guidance in the matter of a young man 's death , a clean young man who handled lambs with gentleness and care , as lambs of God , and never deserved to be done to death suddenly before his time , however the love of God might have set a secure hand under him as he fell , and lifted him into light .
29 The going was good and in the morning an Arab gave me a soft fresh loaf the size and shape of a strong man 's forearm .
30 He then made the following comments , from his own observation ; it is the privilege of later generations to make a moral evaluation of a young man 's opinions .
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