Example sentences of "a [adj] man [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he hoped to take the treasure , cut every honest throat on that island , find and board the Hispaniola at night , and sail away a rich man and a murderer . |
| 2 | Car bomb : A car bomb injured a British man and a woman in the German town of Siegen , near Bonn . |
| 3 | Indeed , as one account put it , ‘ The Incas ruled their people in such a way that there was among them neither a thief nor a vicious man nor a sluggard nor an adulterous woman … |
| 4 | So who is this story of four black women , a dead man , a white man and a pile of contraband cash aimed at ? |
| 5 | However , " knowledge " is used in a special way and a person can still be deemed to have the requisite knowledge if it would be obvious to a reasonable man that a patent was being infringed . |
| 6 | A 25-YEAR-OLD man and a schoolboy were yesterday remanded in custody charged with murdering a policeman , Sgt Bill Forth , who died of stab wounds on Saturday night as he answered a 999 call in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |
| 7 | ‘ Go to Paris ’ , he advised , ‘ there is a painter there who is a beautiful man and a genius — Modigliani . ’ |
| 8 | Alan Bloom , who had helped implement the scene described by Ennion , and was unusual in being both a practical man and a writer , published The Farm in the Fen in 1944 . |
| 9 | James was a fool , but Donald will be a pressed man and a slave . |
| 10 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 11 | Not withstanding Eisenhower 's record as a military man and a statesman , the Shah was still unsatisfied , and in 1959 he flirted with the idea of signing a non-aggression pact with the USSR unless he was given more US military aid . |
| 12 | I finally spotted a young man and a girl dressed as she 'd said she would be in shalwar kameez , a short tunic over long trousers , the traditional Muslim attire ; a cool white scarf around her head and a long coat , and luckily it was Yasmin . |
| 13 | He is a spiteful man and a drunkard . |