Example sentences of "by [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , the name was partly kept alive by dealing , primarily by the man most heavily committed , Durand-Ruel . |
| 2 | In the year in which they met , 1954 , Layton had two books of poetry published — he does nothing by halves ! — and Leonard was clearly dazzled by the man 's prolific genius . |
| 3 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 4 | As Frau Nordern went into the office a babble of voices rose behind her , still audible , although muted , as the door was closed by the man with the cigar . |
| 5 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 6 | He has some improving to do if he is to develop into a genuine Gold Cup hope but being only a six-year-old and trained by the man who has turned the joke ‘ the impossible we do at once , miracles take a little longer . ’ |
| 7 | He has some improving to do if he is to develop into a genuine Gold Cup hope but being only a six-year-old and trained by the man who has turned the joke ‘ the impossible we do at once , miracles take a little longer . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Is Lee in ? ’ said Philip , taken aback by the man 's hostility . |
| 9 | Elsewhere he describes women as having an essentially passive sexual function , ‘ … so that its course is determined by the treatment accorded by the man . ’ |
| 10 | For long moments Frankie was held as if transfixed by the man 's gaze . |
| 11 | Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise . |
| 12 | For her earlier years , there are the famous Ronsard poems extolling her charm and beauty , along with those in similar vein by the man who was to become her most vicious detractor , the great Scottish scholar George Buchanan — exactly the kind of thing which would naturally be written about an attractive young queen . |
| 13 | The directors considered this , and decided that one payment only was in order because , although they could find evidence of the donation by the man , they could find no evidence of any donation by the horse . |
| 14 | After a year and a day a hand-fast marriage can be broken , by the man or by the woman . |
| 15 | If the lubricant can be applied by the man during sexual foreplay , there will be an improvement in the sex act and the troublesome urinary symptoms will disappear as well . |
| 16 | Her mother at one time took in a lodger — and she was later to be raped by the man . |
| 17 | Running into the glade , she picked up Rosalind 's letter and folded it back into its envelope , which she saw to her dismay had been badly torn by the man 's rough handling of it . |
| 18 | Bully barked and tried to put his paws on her chest , but was held back by the man . |
| 19 | The transformation was vividly recalled by the man Macmillan pipped for the premiership , R. A. Butler : |
| 20 | the old ballad of the Children in the Wood who , when they lay down to sleep after wandering about , abandoned by the man who tried to murder them , were covered with leaves by friendly robins , HM 3 ; ‘ them as was kivered by robin redbreasts ’ . |
| 21 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 22 | This statement has been echoed through the ages — by Plato : ‘ Love is the desire and pursuit of the whole ’ ; by Coleridge : ‘ Love is a desire of the whole being to be united to some thing , some being , felt necessary for its completeness ’ ; and by the man in the street ; ‘ My other half ’ , or even ‘ My better half ’ ; or in Erickson 's terms : ‘ the ‘ me in you ’ ’ . |
| 23 | The problem , whether it be vaginismus ( painful contraction of the vaginal muscles ) in the woman or failure to obtain an erection by the man , can be complained about and used as a defence against recognizing the problem in the self . |
| 24 | And maybe they would be cowed not only by the discipline but by the man who wielded it . |
| 25 | Somehow he knew that she felt in need of comfort that weekend — even that provided by the man she had most cause to hate . |
| 26 | Rather than copy this ‘ accidental ’ compound radius , Fender have chosen to equip the reissue with a simple 12″ radius board and .098″ wide medium jumbo frets — big , but not as big as the .110″ wide ‘ jumbo bass frets ’ referred to by the man himself . |
| 27 | Claire , who has starred in TV commercials , was followed to the toilets by the man and battered unconscious . |
| 28 | Then she remembered a remark by the man next door . |
| 29 | ‘ Last winter I met a pregnant woman , deserted by the man whose child she carried . |
| 30 | He was reassured by the man 's friendship . |