Example sentences of "man [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Warton warned me of reciprocal traffic — probably out of the Isle of Man bound for Blackpool . |
| 2 | A dying man asked for a chair to be placed by his bedside , because he sensed that Jesus Christ was sitting beside him in the darkness throughout the night . |
| 3 | I think it was the realisation of his disability that decided the man to go for him first . |
| 4 | She had no man to go for her — her husband was away travelling , too — so she waited for her brother to get back . ’ |
| 5 | Dr Rolleston was retiring quietly to let a younger man prepare for what we were beginning to think was inevitable . |
| 6 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 7 | In his celebrated letter to Chesterfield , Samuel Johnson asks : ‘ Is not a Patron , My Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help . ’ |
| 8 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 9 | MERSEYSIDE MPs today came to the defence of Grand National flagman Kenneth Evans the man blamed for the big race fiasco . |
| 10 | A MAN quizzed for 60 hours by detectives hunting Rachel Nickell 's killer was finally charged with flashing . |
| 11 | Just before my time down there , if a man reported for work with a dirty collar or something like that you were sent home . |
| 12 | It is a punishing job , and Charles is no easy man to work for . |
| 13 | And the vicar such a considerate man to work for . ’ |
| 14 | He 'd been a hard man to work for , but he taught Billy everything he knew about that garden and how to take care of it . |
| 15 | Sir Emmanuel was not an easy man to work for and you had to watch what you said . |
| 16 | He was an exacting man to work for . |
| 17 | ‘ What a gorgeous man to work for , ’ Anna confided , as she and Merrill stacked the dishwasher later . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose Luke might be a difficult man to work for , ’ she ventured . |
| 19 | He was a dangerous man to work for , was George , but he was a survivor . |
| 20 | He 's a marvellous man to work for , and anyway , I love the job . " |
| 21 | Well er there was man walking for the south end of the island to the north end to kept something for his crops . |
| 22 | Lewis referred to him as ‘ a man martyred for his belief in the destiny of his country , a man whose worst fault was that his courage outran his prudence ’ . |
| 23 | Certainly , the phenomenon of a Black man bidding for the most powerful office in the world has raised , irreversibly , the expectations of Americans who , prior to Jackson 's candidacy , never even dreamed about accurate , or responsive , political representation . |
| 24 | Forsyth is a top-selling and stylish author — decidedly not a purveyor of great literature , but a man writing for men , with thrills guaranteed . |
| 25 | The Ice Man cometh for Britain 's ex IBF champ |
| 26 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 27 | On 10 March 1736 the Revd James Clegg , a Nonconformist minister and apothecary from Chinley in the heart of the Peak District , noted in his diary : ‘ An ancient man came for advice and brought a water [ a urine sample ? ] from beyond Southwell in Nottinghamshire , on foot , about 36 miles ’ ; no doubt he returned the same way . |
| 28 | It claimed that the tyranny of architectural principles often impeded the functioning of a building , as it was an ‘ Art which thinks man made for it , not itself for man ’ . |
| 29 | A giant of a man made for Thiercelin , but tripped over a fallen comrade and crashed to the floor . |
| 30 | I thought of the luxury we were enjoying ; our comfortable beds , baths , and motor cars , and then I recalled the ancient custom of giving a man selected for the sacrifice a royal time of it before the appointed day . |