Example sentences of "[coord] a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | T. D. People were scared of you — did n't matter whether you were a big man or a small man . |
| 2 | jackal god of embalming and of the dead and cemeteries , shown as a jackal or a jackal-headed man . |
| 3 | Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Shannon , who is heading the investigation , said : ‘ We are looking for either a youth or a young man . |
| 4 | We are not sure whether Jasper Lyon is an elderly gentleman reminiscing about World War Two or a young man who just had a bee in his bonnet as a schoolboy about flying a Stirling bomber rather than becoming a Spitfire pilot . |
| 5 | Erlich would not criticise a timid woman or a timid man in the Kifisia suburb of Athens … |
| 6 | It would boost their egos to talk to a director of a leading bank , or a key man in a well-known company as an equal , and it was incredibly revealing how little such high up people seemed to know about shares , how desperately motivated they were by greed . |
| 7 | As he was not an insensitive or a brave man , the larger items in the national dailies frequently upset him and clouded his mind with vague anxieties . |
| 8 | Or a puny man who would kill but did not choose to use too much force . |
| 9 | These work-places belong to two main types of firms — largish firms in traditionally low wage industries such as laundries or electrical component factories or sweet factories , or sweat-shops — where the employer may be a family firm or a self-made man , fiercely anti-union , determined to compete with bigger firms if necessary , by exploiting his workers . |
| 10 | The morning sun was Khepri either as a scarab or a scarab-headed man , and was also Harakhty , Horus of the Horizon , depicted as a falcon or as a falcon-headed man with a sun disk on top of his head . |
| 11 | the scarab beetle , creative form of the sun god Re , either as a scarab or a scarab-headed man . |
| 12 | I used to go to his characters for help as a Catholic might go to a priest or a sick man to his doctor . |
| 13 | MYSELF : If an Arab entered a room and separated fourteen Jews from the rest , or a white man in a peaked hood with slits for eyes the same number of number of blacks , nobody would be wasting their time denying the anti-semitic or racist nature of the crime . |
| 14 | ram deity of Heracleopolis , who appears as a ram or a ram-headed man . |
| 15 | His animal was the ram and he is depicted as a ram or a ram-headed man . |
| 16 | Or a cowled man in a black habit ? |
| 17 | For Berkeley , an idea must be an idea of a particular , a particular line , or a particular man . |
| 18 | Indeed , as one account put it , ‘ The Incas ruled their people in such a way that there was among them neither a thief nor a vicious man nor a sluggard nor an adulterous woman … |
| 19 | Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space . |
| 20 | We have secrets , he and I. Gardening secrets , you understand — what else would an old woman and a married man safe in his forties have to share ? ’ |
| 21 | He was , in every sense , a gentleman and a gentle man . |
| 22 | And a key man involved in all these developments has been Australian Rugby Football Union president and chairman , Joe French , who has worked actively , but without recognition , behind the scenes for several years . |
| 23 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 24 | On one such occasion , when the head keeper and a young man were leading Joicey to safety , Joicey turned to the youngster and inquired : ‘ Have you the Gaelic , lad , have you the Gaelic ? ’ |
| 25 | He would be moving there not only with Sara and the baby , but with Sara 's mother , their servant Nanny , and a young man called Charles Lloyd , who had fallen under Coleridge 's spell after meeting him in Birmingham . |
| 26 | The engine stopped alongside her and a young man with blond hair and a cheery smile jumped down . |
| 27 | ‘ But as a teenager and a young man he was more interested in the women . |
| 28 | The General shook his head , the President pressed a button and a young man entered . |
| 29 | In the second case she judged the problem of a woman who had to choose between a mature knight of complete probity and a young man devoid of worth . |
| 30 | Offering the meagre purse of local gossip , news from Buttermere , Nicholson spoke about Mr Skelton 's plans for building a large stone manor house in the area ; dwelt longingly on the prospect of Miss Skelton and said something about the wrestling which included a mention of Mary of Buttermere and a young man from the north of the county walking thirty or forty miles just to see her and make his feelings known to her . |