Example sentences of "man ['s] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that ruach is used of man 's spirit in a number of ways . |
| 2 | Blanche held the man 's gaze for a second and glanced back down at the piece of paper . |
| 3 | A particularly vexing category was the " turnover " : the apprentice who had served most of his time but was not yet a journeyman , and who was snapped up by employers to do a man 's work at a boy 's pay . |
| 4 | The sergeant acknowledged the man 's smile with a nod . |
| 5 | Here a jilted lover is said to have ‘ snapped when he saw his girlfriend fondling a man 's bottom in a pub . |
| 6 | She drew in a great sharp breath which shook her shoulders , then wiped the old man 's chin with a cloth . |
| 7 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 8 | If he ca n't understand a man 's obliga-tion to a friend , how can he understand a man 's love for a woman ? |
| 9 | ‘ Neither of the pair of them looks a likely case , ’ said the earl consideringly , ‘ to crush another man 's head with a stone , though there 's no saying what any man may do in extremes . |
| 10 | The king 's son had a young man 's idea of a joke : he thought he 'd test the courage and much-vaunted toughness of Albuin . |
| 11 | Penetrating no man 's land in a fracas which left three British U N peace keeping soldiers injured , before tear gas from the Greek police dispersed them . |
| 12 | And yet in this area , too , Karajan has been subject to rebarbative questioning and criticism , not least on the grounds that an interest in technology is somehow incompatible with a man 's credibility as a performing musician . |
| 13 | Mrs Meek , of a Son' ’ ' , ‘ Lying Awake ’ , ‘ The Ghost of Art ’ ( clichés in painting ) , ‘ Out of Town ’ ( about ‘ Pavilionstone ’ [ Folkestone ] ) , ‘ Out of Season ’ , ‘ A Poor Man 's Tale of a Patent ’ , ‘ The Noble Savage ’ , ‘ A Flight ’ ( describing the journey from London to Paris ) , ‘ The Detective Police ’ , ‘ Three ‘ Detective' ’ Anecdotes ' , ‘ On Duty with Inspector Field ’ , ‘ Down with the Tide ’ , ‘ A Walk in a Workhouse ’ , ‘ Prince Bull . |
| 14 | This is the ultimate in man 's domination of a river , although many city rivers might just as well be piped . |
| 15 | A MAN of 28 who bit of the tip of another man 's nose during a fight has been jailed for 18 months . |
| 16 | To return to the possible origin of man 's wish for a god ; his mammalian nature ensured that after birth he was helpless and utterly dependent on his parents , and the father , mother and child situation ruled . |
| 17 | A 26-YEAR-OLD Keady man walked free from court yesterday after being cleared of fracturing a man 's skull in a pub brawl . |
| 18 | This desire , Hilton says , is the " love of Iesu " which is the ground of salvation whether or not man experiences the joy and love in the kind of illuminated understanding which is the special gift of the contemplative : Hilton spends some time at this stage of the book finding imaginative ways of pointing to the goal of contemplative discipline — the finding of Jesus who is lost in man 's soul as a treasure buried in a field ( c.49 ) but who also is a joy beyond all that desiring can encompass ( c.46 ) . |
| 19 | Wiping the old man 's mouth on a facecloth , Trent helped him to his feet . |
| 20 | MASKED thugs pinned a man 's hand to a fence with a broken carving knife . |
| 21 | If he ca n't understand a man 's obliga-tion to a friend , how can he understand a man 's love for a woman ? |
| 22 | She was following behind in her car on her way home when a booby trap exploded , hurling the RUC man 's car into a ditch . |
| 23 | The French horsemen were close enough for Sharpe to see their cadenettes , the pigtails which framed each man 's face as a mark of distinction Their equipment looked good and new , and their horses were well fed . |
| 24 | They are capable of aiming accurately enough to splash a man 's face from a distance of 6 feet . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In south Armagh , police recovered a man 's body from a road-side ditch . |
| 27 | Though Alner also failed to win with his other three rides , he stays in the lead for the Daily Telegraph Men 's Championship with a tally of 16 — four ahead of Philip Scholfield . |
| 28 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 29 | To complete the feeling that we had dreamed up the whole of this year 's Wimbledon , Andre Agassi took the men 's title with a back court display that made a mockery of the only seed that really counts there — the grass seed . |
| 30 | The world beyond Europe began to be opened up with voyages to India , China and America , and this transformed men 's horizons in a way fully as dramatic as space travel in our own time . |