Example sentences of "[noun sg] to another man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he 'd always secretly resented giving his name to another man 's child , she thought sadly . |
| 2 | Then he gives a traitor 's title to another man whom he foolishly trusts , which we as the audience realise to be some extreme form of Irony . |
| 3 | He said he had been living with his parents in Fazakerley , and had been sub-letting the flat to another man . |
| 4 | Apparently , for the ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ X , homosexuality is not a submitting to another man but a competition with , a displacing of , him . |
| 5 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 6 | This does not disqualify the character from honourable knightly status — think of Tristram and Yseult , or Lancelot and Guinevere — but it does create a degree of tension : the service of a knight to another man 's lady wife is , as the Lancelot–Guinevere tale shows , the classically subversive element within the knightly ethos . |
| 7 | Then , suddenly , it was as though she were making love to another man . |
| 8 | I knew that tonight she would make love to another man . |
| 9 | Thus when Joseph escapes the embrace of Potiphar 's wife ( Gen. 39:9–10 ) , who would seduce him , leaving his coat in her hands , the coat stands for his loyalty to another man . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I know some people might think we are because we occasionally partner each other , but you should have known better — or perhaps not , since you never had any scruples about being a party to another man 's infidelity six years ago , which leads me to believe that this show of conscience on Cavell 's behalf is just that — show ! |