Example sentences of "[subord] [art] man ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes shelter at a Pennine farm where the man 's daily conversational output is ‘ Two more dead i ’ beck ’ and the woman listens to Holly 's soliloquy like a raggedy Miranda , astonished as the sound of a human voice . |
| 2 | ‘ Another scene cut was one where a man 's brains are splattered over a window . ’ |
| 3 | Because of this prolonged infectious period , the woman 's contribution to the infected population is potentially much greater than the man 's . |
| 4 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 5 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 6 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 7 | A cloud far smaller than a man 's hand peeped over the horizon as March began . |
| 8 | A woman 's liver is also more readily damaged by alcohol than a man 's . |
| 9 | The FA-MAS was a compact weapon which was no longer than a man 's arm and only weighed eight pounds ; it held a magazine of twenty-five rounds and could fire automatically , on single shots or in three-round bursts . |
| 10 | Their pay , expressed in pence per 1000 ens , varied , but was still less than a man 's . |
| 11 | Burun cursed , and Rostov saw that the straw circle had been moved back and turned sideways so that it was no wider than a man 's forearm . |
| 12 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 13 | Nobody 's little fingers are stronger than a man 's hands . |
| 14 | The voice is very important then , and people usually find a female voice more persuasive than a man 's . ’ |
| 15 | Paddington was beginning to loom slightly larger than a man 's hand on the horizon ; Paddington was where the murdered Kemp had stood and phoned The Randolph the previous day . |
| 16 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 17 | LOVE has proved stronger than a man 's desire to change sex . |
| 18 | The strict mother can be very effective in getting what she needs if the man 's early experience helps him to relate to that kind of woman . |
| 19 | Maxim pressed the entryphone bell for Winkelmann and waited until a man 's voice rasped : ‘ Bitte ? ’ |
| 20 | The rule devised was that if a man 's goods could be valued at £1 , but less than £2 , or alternatively if he owned nothing but received wages of £1 a year , he should pay 4d . |
| 21 | If a man 's face could age in a few seconds , his did . |
| 22 | I ca n't see what Andy 's doing because the man 's body is in the way , but then Andy hits into him , bowling him backwards and he shouts and I wriggle away from them ; I scramble off through the ferns on all fours and then stop and look back and the man 's got Andy , he 's struggling with him , leaning over him , folding him , pressing him down , and Andy 's breathing hard , grunting , trying to break free . |
| 23 | The shaikh was concerned because a man 's arm had been broken ; but the cause of the dispute was the use of government resources to damage the interests of rival lineages . |
| 24 | In North Worcestershire also industrial growth made little or no visible impact on the structure of wealth , possibly because a man 's position in the rural hierarchy determined his choice of trade , In Yardley tile making had evolved as a major activity early in the fifteenth century ; along with tanning , which may still have been the principal industry in nearby Birmingham , it was practised by farmer-craftsmen , who mostly had well under £20 in goods , the £3 — £9 range forming a good two-thirds of the list : Thomas Walton , whose £11 was the highest assessment , made tiles and practised cooperage in winter . |
| 25 | These features of her life provide her identity , whereas a man 's identity is given at least partly by his work . |
| 26 | After the man 's death he told Jeannie of his gift , and said he would give her a little at a time so she did n't drink the lot in one enormous spree . |
| 27 | whether a man 's or a woman 's he could not tell , |
| 28 | When the man 's shift was over , he was replaced by a shabby flute player . |
| 29 | At last when the man 's legs were freed and he too was carried out to the waiting ambulance , Rachel stood up and flexed her cramped muscles . |
| 30 | Duller than neighbouring colours and lacking in shading , the red coat was shown by X-ray analysis to cover a slightly shorter and far more finely draped garment in the same green as the man 's sleeves . |