Example sentences of "[adv] a man [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 2 | In the notebooks of Crime and Punishment , Marmeladov ( at this stage called ‘ the civil servant ’ ) is made to argue that ‘ if only a man is really alive , then he suffers , and therefore he needs Christ , and therefore Christ will come . ’ |
| 3 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 4 | Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so . |
| 5 | Hardly a man is now alive |
| 6 | And he caught his hero too since a man is ( among a million other things — but art concentrates attention ) the yellows he sees and tastes , and the evil rancid oil he smells . |
| 7 | Well a man is n't subject to moods or premenstrual tension a guy is n't going to phone in sick with some crap about cramps . |
| 8 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 9 | At this mine two years ago a man was buried and later died after a massive roof fall in an extended cut section . |