Example sentences of "a [adj] man ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vast rooms were crammed with a rich man 's equivalent of Stanley 's jumble-filled stables . |
| 2 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His father , with a working man 's regard for hired finery , picked it up , smoothed it and stood draping it over his arm like an outfitter 's assistant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ A typical man 's point of view . ’ |
| 7 | They 've made my life Hell … a dying man 's anger over threat to evict his family . |
| 8 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 9 | In form alone there are similarities between certain glass bowls and plain ceramic bowls , but it is difficult to find ceramic equivalents of distinctive glass forms , suggesting that any social and economic symbolism conveyed by the shape and function of such vessels was conveyed equally by the material used , and that there were rigid boundaries between them ; there was not , for instance , a poor man 's version of the glass cone beaker . |
| 10 | This is not , however , intended as a guide for the connoisseur , but rather as a plain man 's helpmate to getting the best possible fish for the least outlay . |
| 11 | The £40,000 film a plain man 's guide to the EC is being financed with Conservative Euro cash . |
| 12 | The honorary legal adviser to the Nationwide Festival of Light had criticised the deprave-and-corrupt test in The Daily Telegraph precisely because it had been so applied , arguing , in a plain man 's version of Lord Denning , that |
| 13 | A homebody 's disgust with the restless owners of fast cars , a temperate man 's contempt for drinkers were impacted into this begrudged advice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What I would find off-putting is the idea that people would see me as a divorced man 's bit of light relief . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is as old as a hat pasted on a young man 's head in a mid-Victorian family album . |
| 18 | This is a young man 's court from this day on We 'll bid old ways and styles of talk begone ! |
| 19 | It was not the kindness that had first struck Dinah Asshe , but a young man 's interest in herself ; she had not been permitted to meet many young men . |
| 20 | This is very much a young man 's conception of Mozart , and many will find the no-holds-barred approach works as the perfect antidote to those who nurture an overreverential conception of Mozartian style and grace . |
| 21 | Floated on a young man 's arm through the lobby , smiled proudly , a little vainly at the greying assistant manager behind the desk . |
| 22 | 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 . |