Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in another case a man was banned from using his local swimming bath in Gwynedd because he was HIV-positive . |
| 2 | This afternoon a man caliming to be Hanger called Grendon prison and said he was in Aylesbury and armed with a shotgun . |
| 3 | In another instance a man who was recorded as Laurencio Forester in 1332 , and his son as Willelmo de Fortereshaye , was himself recorded both in earlier and later documents as Laurence de Forstereshegh . |
| 4 | Rokovssky , at this moment a man of curses and oaths , knew he had to send a telegram to Marcelle Fayette in the morning . |
| 5 | John Butcher says at this moment a man on bail for rape is on the run ine the Midlands . |
| 6 | At some point a man in a neat suit materialized . |
| 7 | Another night a man rushed out of the bar and head-butted a double-decker bus . |
| 8 | But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again . |
| 9 | This week a man was pitchforked to death by a woman . |
| 10 | By this Maine meant that in archaic and primitive society a man 's rights and duties were rigidly determined by his position at birth in a given family or clan . |
| 11 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |
| 12 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 13 | In Genesis 2:24 he says , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and they will become one flesh . ’ |
| 14 | The mystery is a quotation from the creation narrative , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and the two will become one flesh ’ ( Eph. 5:31 quoting Gen. 2:24 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Have n't you read , ’ Jesus replied , ‘ that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female , and said , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and the two will become one flesh ’ ? |
| 16 | Reformed universities produced able clergy whom the school could attract to their staffs ; and the Victorian parent still wanted to feel that the principal educator of his child was in some way a man of God . |
| 17 | This way a man may always read who is his friend and who his enemy . ’ |
| 18 | Obviously the other side of the gap had to be blocked in , and to represent the 1840s the choice fell on Timofey Granovsky , in his time a renowned liberal professor and public speaker , and to a lesser extent a man of letters . |
| 19 | Another designer , this time a man , told me there is no such thing as a really new design , only a bit taken from here and something else added from there . |
| 20 | This time a man 's voice shouted , ‘ Keep calling . ’ |
| 21 | In situations of moral dilemma a man must do what he thinks he has to do and moral decisions are involved in his action . |
| 22 | On the crowded train a man gave up his seat to Ianthe and she accepted it gracefully . |
| 23 | In the Kandyan Kingdom a man convicted for assault could be handed over to the complainant to be beaten , and thefts were often resolved by the return of the stolen property , plus further compensation . |
| 24 | And they will not accept at the head of the established Church a man who was largely responsible for the break-up of his own marriage . |
| 25 | The president , convinced that his real problems are not of substance , but of ‘ communication ’ , then hires as his chief communicator a man of the opposite party . |
| 26 | If Mr Makepeace was a study in how much inhumanity a man could bear , Mr McWhirter was a study in how non-human a man could become . |
| 27 | The gift of love is the greatest gift a man can give himself . |
| 28 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |
| 29 | At that moment a man in an old black coat rushed in . |
| 30 | Last week , by coincidence , the Labour leader a man , it is widely believed went out of his way to be pictured with a particular group of parliamentary candidates . |