Example sentences of "[adj] man [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primitive man believed this ; this is one reason why the moon has long been considered feminine . |
| 2 | An old man played several airs on an accordion . |
| 3 | The old man had more power than the major expected . |
| 4 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 5 | The old man says this without rancour . |
| 6 | He was about to add that 's how the old man made all his money , but he stopped himself in time . |
| 7 | There were many names for such a small village , and the old man remembered most of them from his childhood . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't let the old man get all the plaudits . ’ |
| 9 | He watched the old man fit another piece of bait on his line and flick the hook backhanded through the air . |
| 10 | A stream of other relatives followed , and from the shadows they watched the old man touch each of the tall red candles surrounding the portrait with a lighted taper ; when four tiny buds of flames bloomed above the altar he sank to his knees and pressed his palms together . |
| 11 | Taken off by it in an acute , short , not often painful illness , the old man escapes those ‘ cold gradations of decay ’ so distressing to himself and to his friends . ’ |
| 12 | The old men wore that . |
| 13 | The Pilgrim Trust 's survey of a sample of unemployed men included some 170,000 wives and it was calculated that these women ate only 70 per cent of the calories consumed by men , rather than the 85 per cent recommended by dieticians . |
| 14 | It is a well established law that it is sufficient if he exercises the ordinary skill of an ordinary man exercising that particular art . |
| 15 | ‘ Aye ; you 've got to be a real man to play this game , ’ Howie says , winking and taking up his glass . |
| 16 | Why did the following men have such a big impact on Parliament : Bates , Catesby , Winter , Wright , Fawkes , Percy ? |
| 17 | One stubborn man admiring another . |
| 18 | ‘ I could not see such a large man mistreating such a poor little woman . ’ |
| 19 | " It would be dangerous for a fit man to pursue this animal now . |
| 20 | ‘ The wizard said that the little man had some sort of golden disc that told him the time , ’ said the Weasel . |
| 21 | The little man muttered some oath in his own Squattish dialect . |
| 22 | He had beaten the New Zealander Jack Lovelock in the AAA mile — one of five consecutive championship victories — but Lovelock , the more experienced runner , was using the race chiefly to see how and when this little man used that devastating sprint . |
| 23 | This unfortunate man exemplifies many of the problems of mentally disordered offenders . |
| 24 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
| 25 | ‘ A lighthouse ? ’ he asked in a voice which suggested that a prudent man avoided such things . |
| 26 | ‘ Domestic Happiness is the greatest of things sublunary , ’ he had written to Southey earlier in August , ‘ and of things celestial it is perhaps impossible for unassisted Man to believe any thing greater . ’ |
| 27 | The halving in aggregate attendance at football matches , which has taken place between the early 1950s and the early 1980s ( from almost 40 million to under 20 million ) , is a result of the disinclination of married men to spend most Saturday afternoons watching live football . |
| 28 | Young and Willmott ( 1973 ) , for example , ( although they are generally trying to demonstrate the increasing symmetry of domestic relationships ) show that married men spent some ten hours per week on domestic tasks , compared with 23 hours for full-time and 35 hours for part-time employed women . |
| 29 | ‘ It would be a case of one blind man leading another . ’ |
| 30 | In 1896 he was appointed chief inspector of factories and workshops , the first medical man to hold this position . |