Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly the old man opened his eyes . |
| 2 | Eventually the little man cleared his throat . |
| 3 | Suddenly the old man grabbed him and whispered in his ear , ‘ Shh ! |
| 4 | Jimmy sensed victory , when suddenly the little man exclaimed , ‘ Warrenpoint is on fire ! ’ |
| 5 | The robotic replacement or adaptation of man has been the dream of inventors and film-makers for decades — eg the bionic man and other similar imaginative creations . |
| 6 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Apparently the old man is a bit of a Prussian , ’ Blunt said . |
| 8 | So long the sick man of Europe , it is now not only dead but hung , drawn and quartered . |
| 9 | They oppose with greater or lesser emphasis any ‘ objective ’ substitutes for mens rea , especially the reasonable man , though intoxication is treated as an exception . |
| 10 | The men are important , especially the lesser man . |
| 11 | ‘ My brother , who is 17 , is perhaps the only man I trust now . |
| 12 | Perhaps the young man had something on his side after all . |
| 13 | Perhaps the old man found that … stimulating ? |
| 14 | Perhaps the old man with the torn shoe was not some desperate down-and-out with fists full of stolen mushrooms ; maybe he was just an ordinary person whose shoes had split that lunchtime , while shopping . |
| 15 | Neither of you knows personally the young man to whom you intend to entrust your , er … secret , and I feel it is my duty to caution you . ’ |
| 16 | I 've done all the New Man stuff . |
| 17 | And so the poor man had been obliged to die in as Christian a manner as possible in the arms of the atheistical Magistrate who had , of course , listened without the least sympathy to Mr Bradley 's last pious ejaculations , impatiently muttering : " Yes , yes , to be sure , do n't worry about it , " as poor Mr Bradley , looking up into that last , glaring , free-thinking , diabolical , ginger sunset of the Magistrate 's whiskers , commended his soul to God . |
| 18 | So the normal man in the street wo n't see a great deal until very much nearer the time when it opens next spring . |
| 19 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 20 | So the Macho Man is where my money is — even if he is little more than a heap of flesh and bone . ’ |
| 21 | After a mile or so the Old Man is reached , just south and west of the actual Point Of Stoer ( 25 minutes ) . |
| 22 | So the old man let him go , but with a heavy heart . |
| 23 | So the voluminous man held her wrists and lowered the girl 's body , small-breasted with protruding hip bones and long legs which , when stretched out together , still showed light between them , into the dark square where she stood with water up to her thighs . |
| 24 | Only the poor man happens to be me . ’ |
| 25 | Only the poor man who has no shelter comes to live here . |
| 26 | But it is only the young man . |
| 27 | Only the young man 's intuitive fear of the heavy couple who had entered his shop , closed the door and locked it , and pushed him roughly into the back room , made him co-operate at all . |
| 28 | Only the front man kept his cool , |
| 29 | Only the hawk-faced man ahead of her just sidestepped the line . |
| 30 | But capitalism is only the individualistic man of Enlightenment creation in economic form . |