Example sentences of "from a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 2 | He glared at Mr Catlett , who quailed before this rare intimidation from a man who was normally jovial and kind . |
| 3 | This novel seems , but only seems , but does seem insistently , to come from a man who knew nothing but was very opinionated , who checked no facts and guzzled rumour scraps , whose mind was uncouth , raggity , raucous , florid . |
| 4 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 5 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 6 | Greed and envy took from a man 's heart everything but — well , greed and envy . |
| 7 | But maybe that is n't such a departure when you consider that falsetto has always been ‘ a sexual mask … the sound of a woman coming from a man … a way to demonstrate to his intended lover that he understands her fears and desires as if he were female himself ( Michael Freedburg ) . |
| 8 | We got a dreadful van from a man called Nick the Maltese , down the East End . |
| 9 | McLeish decided it would be a waste of time to suggest that it would have hardly been reasonable for Angela Morgan to expect to inherit a quick fortune from a man of sixty-two . |
| 10 | Mr Winchester 's guide somewhat spoils that last triumph by showing him a press release — written , of course , on a Macintosh — from a man who had followed Balboa 's footsteps two months earlier . |
| 11 | Aged 34 , Mr Gates is bright , opinionated , decisive and every bit as sure of himself as one would expect from a man who was a billionaire by the age of 30 . |
| 12 | This ‘ hurt the feelings of the Chinese people ’ ; worse , it came from a man China considers ‘ an old friend ’ . |
| 13 | A wolf-whistle from a man indicates an active desire . |
| 14 | It reminded him of another mad suggestion from a man in California , offering the contras $50m if they would go and take over Malta . |
| 15 | She 'd received only two or three serious propositions throughout her marriage — serious in the sense of coming from a man of intelligence and sensitivity — and to one of them she had yielded , in a matter of weeks . |
| 16 | At the Huntingdonshire Eyre in 1255 , for example , Norman Sampson , a riding forester , was convicted of having extorted money from a man in his bailiwick by making him sit upon a harrow . |
| 17 | This from a man who had little interest in the event when he went up to Magdalene College last autumn to study transport and marketing — and the Boat Race is a triumph of both these days . |
| 18 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 19 | But at 11.20 pm — just as Highlights from Augusta offer relief from a man repeatedly declaring that the second election result may be coming at any minute — Scotland is being indulged with different fare . |
| 20 | This came from a man standing behind the shrill woman . |
| 21 | This time the interruption came from a man in the front row of the audience , a tall man who was leaning forward , and George looked at him , feeling less hostility than the woman who had shouted at him earlier had created ; and then he realized it was because he spoke in an educated voice . |
| 22 | The last evidence of the day came from a man called Povey , a coalman , who said that between 5.05 and 5.25 , he had seen a man who he identified as Drew , drunk as a sack in Broad Street ( adjacent to Cross Street ) . |
| 23 | The sound that had made O look up came from a man who was sitting on the floor , leaning against the wall of the tunnel , looking not much like a beggar , but just someone worn out ; perhaps he had collapsed there and was resting . |
| 24 | Bold stuff from a man whose pb of 27:51.76 is almost five years behind him , but Solly 's accentuation is firmly on the positive . |
| 25 | I hope you do n't mind answering a letter from a man , but I do n't know how to cope with this woman in my office . |
| 26 | But research in America has suggested very strongly that it 's actually a special sex fluid , similar to a secretion which is ejaculated from a man 's prostate gland , but produced by a sensitive structure near the famous G-spot . |
| 27 | Had it not been realised that it was the work of a humble man , this poem would be thought a sacrilege and an example of striking pride and arrogance , but instead it is an invitation to extreme exaltation of spirit for it comes from a man who has submerged his ego in the All . |
| 28 | And this from a man whose more serious moments have spawned a folk opera about the island of Lewis and tuneful contributions to charity cassettes . |
| 29 | His plan was audacious , and could have come only from a man combining cunning with iron determination . |
| 30 | It is the type of attitude you would expect from a man who cites Buck Shelford as his role model and who learned his trade in the best of all academies . |