Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [adj] man 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt he might even have given the captain a good run for his money if it had n't been for the damn man 's obvious advantage of height and weight . |
| 2 | In terms of actual support , I think for me personally it 's been within a gay men 's group . |
| 3 | He thought of Beryl and the need to come to grips with the Garland set-up as it had been before the old man 's death . |
| 4 | The dead boy is on the old man 's knees , and he clasps his bloody head and pays no attention to the attacker . |
| 5 | As her brother recalls : ‘ It was like an old man 's club with masses of clocks ticking away . |
| 6 | Now as he began to understand the story in its full horror , his face was like an old man 's . |
| 7 | A further major difference was in the two men 's attitudes towards tribal peoples — whom Wallace recognized as fascinating equals , rather than as " a lower order of the human race " , which was Darwin 's perhaps unwitting contribution to twentieth-century racism . |
| 8 | ‘ She was always very quiet and withdrawn , ’ was all Aunt Lilian would say , when pressed , and perhaps her interest really was in the young man 's academic future , not in her own , or mine , because she continued to coach him by post until two days before my birth . |