Example sentences of "[conj] for a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 2 | Nothing moved on the road now except for a man driving eight cows from one pasture to another . |
| 3 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 4 | But he realised that for a man like Lancaster — trusting and timid — the betrayal would have been much , much worse . |
| 5 | There could be no doubt that for a man on foot this was the quickest way from Riddle 's house to Jordan 's farm . |
| 6 | She continued , ‘ I would have thought that for a man in your position , required to make countless decisions every day , such a weakness would prove to be a considerable handicap . ’ |
| 7 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 8 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Better for a horse than for a man , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee with relish . |
| 10 | Although for a man a stab wage was invariably better than piece-rates , it could sometimes be the other way round for women . |
| 11 | Objects disappear , and for a man of 29 he seems to have grabbed hold of very little of anything except a glass and a book . |
| 12 | This was no mean achievement for the son of immigrant parents , and for a man who had left school five years before going back to college . |
| 13 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 14 | And even though I know I 'll be there to support her , I ca n't do anything to help her , and for a man to admit that to himself is really hard . |
| 15 | But for a man who used to prowl around LWT in a kaftan , commissioning series such as Gay Life , Birt has acquired some rather surprising supporters . |
| 16 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |