Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] man ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the high mantel shelf above what had once been the fireplace was a black and white photograph of a young man 's head . |
| 2 | As they broke bread it spurted and dripped blood , and their mirth was the rattle in a dying man 's throat . |
| 3 | TWO men , aged 22 and 28 , are expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court today after being arrested in connection with the discovery of a 35-year-old man 's body in a sewage works at Bothwell . |
| 4 | True to historical precedent , it required a white rock musician to have a hit with a black man 's song — in this case Eric Clapton with ‘ I Shot the Sheriff ’ — before the breakthrough could occur ; but at length Bob Marley became the first reggae superstar . |
| 5 | A young , unescorted girl in a grubby man 's raincoat , taking a 3/6d. seat when the last programme was half-over , upset , for them , the natural order of things . |
| 6 | I sort of looked on the on the board and saw a thirteen two pony for sale been shown last year so it 's probably a sort of a working man 's pony , you know , that sort of class . |
| 7 | THE front room of a dying man 's home yesterday became a makeshift court for the initial stages of his legal battle with the tobacco industry . |
| 8 | The 52nd-minute header was his first Premier League goal and the blue hordes massed in the new Bridgford End stand , that looks from the outside like a poor man 's Pompidou Centre , went wild . |
| 9 | She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice . |
| 10 | To get to that point , there was a quantum leap to be achieved , the proverbial turning point in a young man 's life when fate or some other thing takes a hand , and it was at this point in time that June — whom he says he still believed was his sister — reappeared in the story as a catalyst to a decision that would ultimately prove to be the most important in his life . |
| 11 | And at the same time , since Svidrigailov too has been brushed against in this reaching back which is also a reaching forward , the incident of the governor 's ear can be understood in all its matchless comedy as a desperate man 's recourse against boredom . |
| 12 | However we have seen that quantum theory places considerable restraint on a plain man 's objectivist view of the natural world . |
| 13 | If I had a little money in a rich man 's world . |
| 14 | The union really wanted women out of the trade , but in public statements like Mr Battersby 's after-dinner speech , said that they were prepared to settle for equal pay ; while the women regarded the latter call as unrealistic if not hypocritical , since they felt ( and were daily told ) that they were not doing the equivalent of a skilled man 's work ( though even they thought the differentials too high ) . |
| 15 | At first the trenches were merely lines dug to the depth of an average man 's height , with little attempt being made to shore them up , so even a little rain could cause the sides to collapse . |
| 16 | Both Atticus and Judge Taylor realise that the case is lost before that trial even begins because they realise that because the jury is all white , they can not convict a black man against a white man 's word . |
| 17 | Twenty years ago a poor vicar fell in love with a rich man 's daughter . |
| 18 | On one of Lucky Town ‘ s best songs , Better Days , he has the wit to sing : ‘ It 's a sad funny ending to find yourself pretending / a rich man in a poor man 's shirt . ’ |
| 19 | It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes . |
| 20 | Eliot 's stone images which ‘ receive/ The supplication of a dead man 's hand ’ epitomize the dying embers of rites reduced to meaninglessness . |
| 21 | What he asked was guidance in the matter of a young man 's death , a clean young man who handled lambs with gentleness and care , as lambs of God , and never deserved to be done to death suddenly before his time , however the love of God might have set a secure hand under him as he fell , and lifted him into light . |
| 22 | The going was good and in the morning an Arab gave me a soft fresh loaf the size and shape of a strong man 's forearm . |
| 23 | He then made the following comments , from his own observation ; it is the privilege of later generations to make a moral evaluation of a young man 's opinions . |
| 24 | The operation involved a tendon from a dead man 's leg being grafted onto Salako 's knee . |
| 25 | And there is a point of view from which Ronald Fraser might be seen as a man of Marxist leanings who paid a professional adviser what may have been a fair whack of a working man 's wages to enquire with him into the deficiencies of his affective life . |
| 26 | A taunting display of leisure time frivolity right in the face of a working man 's day . |
| 27 | But I know , and you should know , that imagination is not what counts at this stage of a young man 's career ; what he needs is application , study , repetition , diligent imitation and sincere admiration of his peers . |
| 28 | And the he sent one of my lads we used to do a lot in the area for him , and obviously he ca n't afford to spend too much so h we sent one man in the little van to get this pool table from a working man 's club in New in er Nottingham . |