Example sentences of "man 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Isle of Man 's Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr David Cannan , was dismissed yesterday in the Manx government 's first ever Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 2 | In fact , a man 's skin can be just as dry as a woman 's . |
| 3 | The man 's skin was the matchless white of a person who preferred study to sport and shadow to sunlight . |
| 4 | Still , the differentiation of the peasantry into rich and poor or landless was also marked in the advanced Czech lands , as is indicated by the fact that the number of goats — the typical poor man 's animal — almost doubled between 1846 and 1869 . |
| 5 | But there was nothing in the least admiring in this man 's assessment of her . |
| 6 | And the commitment of each discharger to pollution control will vary widely , depending not least upon the organizational status and occupation of the field man 's contact . |
| 7 | The dead man 's sister , Pilar , said that shortly before his death she found in his apartment reams of sex notes from Dr Bean-Bayog , including hundreds of handwritten letters . |
| 8 | The imprisoned man 's sister was married to a gardener in the Boboli and lived just next door . |
| 9 | ‘ Your name 's been given by the murdered man 's sister , Miss Charlotte Ladram , as somebody able to corroborate certain aspects of the evidence she 's laid before us . ’ |
| 10 | The dead man 's sister , Sara Glynn , has made a fresh statement in which she claims to have seen her brother , Alfred , leaving the scene shortly after the time at which Matthew must have died . ’ |
| 11 | Bert shuffled back through the door into the boarded off section of the garage , followed by Yanto , who was frustrated by the old man 's slowness . |
| 12 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
| 13 | He knew that the Genesis account of man 's fall from grace could be read as an indictment of a thirst for knowledge . |
| 14 | Cook the din-dins , put the cat out , clear up the junk on the great man 's desk , and hope my lord throws me a kind word from time to time . |
| 15 | There had been several copyings out and rewritings over a number of years , and although the changes made are sometimes evidence of ideological revisionism ( the poet had become more conformist in his later years ) , what is remarkable is how much of the young man 's vision has been allowed to remain intact . |
| 16 | Just in time to celebrate the onrush of spring , the Vanderwoude-Tannenbaum gallery has mounted ‘ A Bird 's Eye View : One Man 's Vision ’ a tribute to Mr James in the form of a tree full of birdhouses he made ( until 6 June ) . |
| 17 | McLeish instantly understood the man 's nightmare but realized he could give only qualified reassurance . |
| 18 | Of course I accept that one man 's fun is another man 's nightmare , and because of this more companies should think about creating ready-made racks for those who want them , or maybe just come up with designs and ideas for those who want to build their own . |
| 19 | But one man 's nightmare is another 's dream . |
| 20 | Bruce is aware that with something like 85 per cent of ‘ Melinar ’ going into bottles he faces the marketing man 's nightmare , the one-product material . |
| 21 | At last , da nae man 's laand o Bardister , |
| 22 | But the big man 's laughter was uneasy and he muttered , ‘ Aye well , take it easy , eh , ’ before giving Martin an odd look and returning to his own beat . |
| 23 | The soft sound of the other man 's laughter followed him as he stepped into the foyer . |
| 24 | As Nigel Harris suggests , ‘ Our reality is the next man 's ideology and vice versa . |
| 25 | When he was half-way over , the Czechoslovak police guarding the back of the embassy grabbed the man 's belt and began hauling him down . |
| 26 | The monkey in a waistcoat was on a chain attached to the dancing man 's belt . |
| 27 | He thought he glimpsed the slight gleam of light on a man 's belt , somewhere towards the bottom of the vegetable patch . |
| 28 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |
| 29 | Elaborately carved vases , figures , and smaller versions of the great jade mountains found in Ch'ing palaces further contributed to a man 's standing and enhanced the aesthetic ambience of the higher reaches of Chinese administration . |
| 30 | The Danakil did not hunt and the Abyssinians , who had wiped out most of the game elsewhere , were afraid to venture into their country , since among the Danakil a man 's standing depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated . |