Example sentences of "man [unc] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month he starred as the poor man 's hero in the film Robin Hood and now he 's playing a wealthy land agent in Granada TV 's new series , The Real Charlotte , which starts next Monday . |
| 2 | He would hand over the old man 's baccy for the week and a few sweeties then , after a bit of chat , he was away . ’ |
| 3 | Wind it up and watch it shoot up like a dirty old man 's dick at the sight of a Madonna book . |
| 4 | Howard almost laughs aloud at the young man 's distaste for the prospect . |
| 5 | Canon J Stafford Wright , an evangelical scholar and former principal of Tyndale College , Bristol , believes that the psychic might be man 's link with the rest of the animal world . |
| 6 | Some time ago , Matza and Sykes ( 1961 ) suggested that this is because among ‘ respectable ’ people criminal motivations exist at the ‘ subterranean ’ level and only surface on special , licensing situations such as the business man 's night on the town , carnivals , office parties , student rags , and so on . |
| 7 | Now the cubit ( traditionally the length of a man 's forearm from the elbow to clenched fist ) is the principal unit of linear measurement in the Bible , and was used too in Egypt and Mesopotamia . |
| 8 | The beauty of the flower is transcendent , and it has been a part of man 's heritage since the beginning . |
| 9 | At eight o'clock tonight , Central viewers will be able to see a unique programme listing the effects of man 's interference with the environment . |
| 10 | Joe slipped on the snowy slope as he neared him , and when his hand touched the man 's chin above the collar of his rough jacket and felt the sticky wetness on his fingers , he sprang up as if he had been stung by a hornet . |
| 11 | They had found the man 's wallet in the pocket of his jacket with forty pounds in notes , a credit card , and a driving licence in the name of Francis Garland . |
| 12 | Why could a man 's voice in the night create an ache in a person so deep and so wide that it felt as if it could never be filled ? |
| 13 | But he did not open the door , because just then he heard a man 's voice in the room ! |
| 14 | A man 's voice from the doorway made her turn . |
| 15 | When I answer this in the affirmative , I am aware that a man 's marriage with the woman of his choice is in one sense a boon , and in that sense the reverse of a loss ; yet , as between the plaintiff and the party promising an income to support the marriage , it may be a loss . |
| 16 | The luck of Lyle 's caddie in picking the right year David Davies does a round of golf 's library and rejoices in one man 's rub of the green . |
| 17 | Indeed this selection of propositions reads like a summary of what is generally taken to be de Man 's contribution to the theory of language . |
| 18 | In recent years the study of megalithic remains such as Stonehenge in terms of hypothetical astronomical alignments has led to various interesting speculations concerning prehistoric man 's knowledge of the calendar . |
| 19 | Did uncertainty play any part in man 's knowledge before the Fall ? |
| 20 | Even so , like a dog at the bone , The Times was driven to search out the foreign disposition of the garotters , accusing them of abandoning the traditional civility of the traditional English highway robbery : ‘ Without the old challenge and parley in use among highwaymen , your garotter knocks a man 's head against the kerbstone as the best way of getting at his pocket . ’ |
| 21 | De Man 's progress towards the aporia of hidden and manifest content in Proust is nothing more than the elaboration of his initial imperfect translation . |
| 22 | In silence , they watched the man 's progress along the length of the corridor . |
| 23 | The third rule , which reflects the field man 's position in the bureaucracy of pollution control , is ‘ cover yourself ’ ( ch. 4 , s.iii ) . |
| 24 | For example , when discussing the passage from matriliny to patriliny , Engels [ p. 119 ] echoes Morgan 's formulation in the following way:s ‘ Thus , on the one hand , in proportion as wealth increased ( as a result of the domestication of animals ) it made the man 's position in the family more important than the woman 's , and on the other hand created an impulse to exploit this strengthened position in order to overthrow , in favour of his children , the traditional order of inheritance . |
| 25 | Man 's relationship with the animal kingdom and with the natural world as a whole is also affected by this belief in the essential unity of all that exists . |
| 26 | The geometry of a temple 's construction relates to the human body and incorporates the principles of man 's relationship to the universe , thus forming a bridge , a living connection between the cosmic forces and the terrestrial . |
| 27 | He was not the chief executive of a big corporation but in an uneasy no man 's land between the department and the service . |
| 28 | Rattling through the broken no man 's land between the town and the dam , the dark windows of the train showed only our own reflections . |
| 29 | One hundred and forty kilometres long and up to eight hundred and fifty metres wide , the no man 's land between the east and west sides of the Berlin wall is now available for development . |
| 30 | Erm , I 'm in no man 's land at the moment , because I 'm like between , between sort of like branches , appraisals are coming up , how can I have an appraisal , I wo n't have anything . |