Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then good fortune brought me the very man that I needed . |
| 2 | Barrymore did not know in which of them the mysterious man was living . |
| 3 | I do n't remember all I The last man I can remember working one was Mr , Joe , and he was down he The last one I can remember , as I say , was being operated in in the yard just down Street . |
| 4 | Am I a mechanical man ? |
| 5 | Perhaps I am myself no gourmet , and think of food as a matter in which the rational man can excuse himself from making a fully-considered choice . |
| 6 | It is a political culture in which the strong man dominates a series of lesser men through intimidation and debt . |
| 7 | From that year onward we two went through most of the stages into which the ordinary man 's love of Nature is divided . |
| 8 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 9 | It will be a choice of ends , for example , even if forgotten a moment later , when he chokes back an erupting laugh at a slip by an important man , the choice being between a momentary and a long-term goal , the latter of which the other man could jeopardize . |
| 10 | That is the kind of occasion on which the advance man has to think fast , make a decision and ‘ manage ’ it through . |
| 11 | This network of friendship and patronage became one of the less objectionable instruments of nineteenth-century electoral corruption and the instrument with which the small man met and defended himself against the state . |
| 12 | He professes quite despair about the state if football — ‘ a game that 's lost its soul ’ — but had draw comfort from a meeting with American jockey Cash Asmussen in France , in which the young man had generously given time to talk intelligently and passionately about his sport . |
| 13 | During the night I cut firewood for them , and added it secretly to the wood which the young man had cut during the day . |
| 14 | an odd bit of se steel or iron off a bar which the modern man would say well there 's |
| 15 | It all ends on a fantasy scene in which the wrong man gets the girl and England win . |
| 16 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 17 | Liam found a letter , which the old man had written just after Liam 's mother 's own death the year before . |
| 18 | Beth had heard the manner in which the old man had addressed her husband , and it would have gladdened her heart to hear him snap back ; just for once to tell the old villain to ‘ Go to Hell ! ’ |
| 19 | The bedroom had a sloping ceiling and was very simply furnished ; a double bed covered with a white quilt , a bow fronted chest of drawers and the armchair in which the old man sat . |
| 20 | In 1979 households were delicately ordered and hierarchical social groups in which the senior man had nominal control of everyone : of the women and children , of the other men and , in the experience of living men and women , of attached client and slave households . |
| 21 | He accounted himself the unluckiest man alive . |
| 22 | It is the work of the Spirit , then , to make us progressively reflect the character of Christ , himself the Last Man who demonstrates the image of God which God intended for us when he made us . |
| 23 | A man of ninety suddenly finds himself the oldest man in the village not necessarily because he is ninety but because a man of ninety-one died yesterday . |
| 24 | Edgar Linton was still in love with her , and thought himself the happiest man on earth when he married her three years after his parents ' death . |
| 25 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 26 | A 46-year-old man is to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court today in connection with an incident in Hope Street yesterday during which a 21-year-old man was stabbed . |
| 27 | John of Salisbury tells us that a new custom had arisen in his time that on the day on which a young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood he went solemnly to church , laid his sword on the altar , and offered himself and his service to God . |
| 28 | The arrangement by which a young man , who dies before he is married , can nevertheless marry and have descendants ( provided always that he was the owner of cattle ) is rather similar to the biblical institution of the levirate , but the elaboration which allows a woman to become a legal " father " at first seems more peculiar . |
| 29 | Police earnings in the 1920s were substantial by comparison with most other occupations to which a working man could aspire . |
| 30 | He is going to translate a work of consolation , in which a mournful man ( ‘ Thomas ’ in the margin of Hoccleve 's own manuscript ) holds a dialogue with Reason . |