Example sentences of "[pron] that [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read a lot , Joe , and it appears to me that every man , even every thinking man has always had a different view of the same subject ; the more I read of men and their lives and their ideas the more I realise there 's no black and white in the world ; there 's good points to be found even in the blackest , and there 's some very dark streaks in the so-called saints . |
| 2 | Common sense and what little knowledge of history I have tells me that every man has his price . |
| 3 | It astonished me that a man who had kept his head under the most severe stresses and strains should lose both nerve and judgement in this way . |
| 4 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 5 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 6 | I am sure Mr Willmore will agree with me that the man for the job is Tottenham MP Bernie Grant . |
| 7 | Afterwards he complained bitterly to other government officers of the uselessness of such a DPR , and on being told of my background , retorted angrily , ‘ Why did n't somebody warn me that the man was a bloody missionary ? ’ |
| 8 | I thought he had passed some inconsequential remark , but when the couple had walked on , Miss Senga informed me that the man had relayed a message from Master Patrick . |
| 9 | It was fairly obvious from the noise coming from behind me that the man in question did remember him fairly clearly . |
| 10 | She told them that a man had knocked on the door of her home in Hereford claiming to be from the council . |
| 11 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 12 | Checking Zhukov 's pulse , he satisfied himself that the man would be senseless for at least another five minutes , then walked smartly into the darkroom , switching on the red safety light . |
| 13 | He told himself that the man was arrogant , self-satisfied , and smelled of after-shave stuff ; Helen was an idiot to let him pester her like this . |
| 14 | But I have to tell you that a man such as Niccolò needs sons less than he needs marriage , and needs a woman at present not at all . |
| 15 | Jimmy Connors after being knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round I 'VE spent time with her and she is everything that a man could want . |
| 16 | Look at Elvis , he had everything that a man could desire , looks , talent , wealth — but after he 'd eaten all the cheeseburgers he could swallow , when he got bored chasing young girls in white panties , how did he spend his time ? |
| 17 | Again a legal liberty ( that is something that a man may do with legal justification ) may form the basis of blackmail . |
| 18 | Moments later Rachel saw for herself that the man 's hands were indeed covered in tiny red blisters . |
| 19 | And yet it could still surprise him that a man could be a sensible and reliable scientist in his work and a fool with women , could show judgement in one area of his life and act like an irrational child in another . |
| 20 | I assured him that the man concerned had as good or as bad claims as anyone on the List and that my remarks were not addressed to him . |
| 21 | The stranger might refuse to admit defeat and maintain simply that the person sitting on the bench was not I , that he was I , and that it was with him that the man who was now doubting his identity was having a conversation a moment ago . |
| 22 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 23 | ‘ I did say to her that the man Andy should see was Giles Hawick himself . |
| 24 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 25 | We would have actually liked to have told her that the man was the Secretary of State for Wales and a member of the Cabinet ! |
| 26 | Experience convinced her that the man who was drunk would lecture them on the futility of dying , a theme prompted by the first mention of hospices . |
| 27 | Mrs. X told me in a telephone conversation today that the acting commanding officer and the warrant officer , who is the family officer , have informed her that the man is to return within the next two weeks . |
| 28 | As they climbed from the back of the ambulance Rachel was met by the foreman of that particular section , who informed her that the man had fallen from the top of the jig to the second section . |
| 29 | She nodded and he went on , ‘ Well , chance would have it that a man called James Morris called Robert this morning . |
| 30 | I have no doubt myself that a man or woman earnestly seeking in grown-up life to be guided to wide and suggestive knowledge in its largest and most uplifted sphere will make the best of all the pupils in this age of clatter and buzz , of gape and gloat . |