Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] man 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now , when her mind travelled back , it was clear from the young man 's behaviour and some of the comments he had made that she had been suffering from myopia . |
| 2 | To Las Vegas or Monaco da da da money money money funny in a rich man 's world . |
| 3 | She traced the outline of his face with her eyes , loving the dear , untidy hair , the mouth that smiled widely and often , the eyes that were old in a young man 's face . |
| 4 | Neither of them , though , want to see women given an income simply because they are wives : for Donnison , this would be massively expensive , degrading to women as a whole , and unreasonably generous to the rich man 's wife ; for Fairbairns , payment for ‘ skivvying for a demanding but fit husband ’ would be payment for work that is ‘ unnecessary and demeaning ’ . |
| 5 | Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform . |
| 6 | I stared at it , conscious of the big man 's arm encircling mine with the coiled hunger of an anaconda about to ingest . |
| 7 | George was impressed with the new man 's knowledge of sheep , appreciating how quickly he spotted a sick or lame sheep and how neatly he and Meg could cut it out from the herd for attention . |
| 8 | After becoming involved with the Working Men 's College , established by Frederick Maurice [ q.v. ] in 1854 , Elizabeth Malleson was inspired to found a counterpart for women . |
| 9 | The man on the left is probing inside the seated man 's skull to find the cause of his madness — another title for the picture is ‘ The Search for the Stone ’ . |
| 10 | He thought he could detect something odd in the other man 's voice — a faint sing-song tone ; a little , obsessive rhythm , lilting and mad . |
| 11 | Last night Det Chief Supt Colin Port , heading the kidnap hunt , said : ‘ We are gravely concerned for the abducted man 's safety . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you all right , Wei Feng ? ’ he asked , concerned for the old man 's health . |
| 13 | There was something reptilian about the old man 's grip . |
| 14 | She fell back hard against the wall and shut her eyes , her head full of the young man 's odour . |
| 15 | It was evident from the young man 's circumspect excitement that he thought he 'd got his first genuine schizophrenic hypochondriac . |
| 16 | He glared at her for a moment , his small eyes hot with a weak man 's rage . |
| 17 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Sikes , uneasy at the old man 's strange expression . |
| 18 | She lurched , reached out a hand and plucked the wallet clean from the bearded man 's grasp . |
| 19 | The journalists claim in ‘ Ambush : The War Between The SAS and the IRA ’ that the SAS man drove a lorry identical to the ex-UDR man 's and pretended to break down on a lonely Tyrone road . |
| 20 | And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man 's room . |
| 21 | Presumably you are aware of the dead man 's background ? ’ |
| 22 | Klepner kept a straight face , but was overjoyed at the top man 's response . |
| 23 | It was the third time the boy had tried to get past him , and , as before , he seemed surprised by the old man 's quickness ; shocked that , whichever way he moved , Tuan Ti Fo was there , blocking his way . |
| 24 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |