Example sentences of "[adj] man [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporaries such as Joseph Townshend who , in his Dissertation on the Poor Laws in 1786 , referred to the poor rate throughout as a tax , were in no doubt that the landed interest , from landlords through the gentry to large and smaller tenants and owners , bore the main brunt of the poor rate : " Monied men have greatly the advantage over the owners and occupiers of land , as being free from those heavy taxes , which the latter pay to the King , to the church , and to the poor . " |
| 2 | One man wiped away a tear and said : ‘ This is the night of Little Rock 's redemption . ’ |
| 3 | In that decade European men won almost a quarter of the 40 major championships played and for most of it dominated the top ten in the world rankings . |
| 4 | I read with interest of the lady golfer who , when confronted by a naked man wearing only a bowler hat , asked him whether he was a member , and then hit him with a Number 8 iron . |
| 5 | The young man pulled forward the chair he had been sitting on and lifted one leg up on it . |
| 6 | Reminiscing recently with his old friend Jimmy Scullion , the father of World champion Andy Scullion , the two men have almost a century of drumming knowledge between them . |
| 7 | These young men had practically no capital and no connections . |
| 8 | The visitor can tour old workings and see demonstrations of the techniques involved particularly slate cutting , in which skilled men using only a hammer and chisel can split blocks of slate into sheets one fortieth of an inch thick . |
| 9 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |