Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest love a man can have for his friends is to give his life for them and you are my friends , if you do what I command . |
| 2 | The gift of love is the greatest gift a man can give himself . |
| 3 | ‘ Love of God is the greatest virtue a man can ever cultivate , and through that develops this love for the creation of God ; kindness , compassion , tolerance , and helpfulness to others emanate when the love of God grows in the heart . |
| 4 | Last week , by coincidence , the Labour leader a man , it is widely believed went out of his way to be pictured with a particular group of parliamentary candidates . |
| 5 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |
| 6 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 7 | And they will not accept at the head of the established Church a man who was largely responsible for the break-up of his own marriage . |
| 8 | On the crowded train a man gave up his seat to Ianthe and she accepted it gracefully . |
| 9 | In the Kandyan Kingdom a man convicted for assault could be handed over to the complainant to be beaten , and thefts were often resolved by the return of the stolen property , plus further compensation . |
| 10 | The hardest thing a man can do … ’ |
| 11 | In those early days in our relationship , Basil was still adjusting to the Northern scene and I , a callow young teacher , encountering for the first time a man of impeccable manners , charm and sensibility . |
| 12 | A man accused of raping his wife has been cleared by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court ; it was the first time a man in England had been charged with such an offence . |
| 13 | It was the first time a man in England has been charged with such an offence . |
| 14 | It was the only way a man in his lonely and dangerous profession could live . |
| 15 | The only thing a man 's got to do in this world is stand up when he pees . ’ |
| 16 | He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering . |
| 17 | In the same period a man with seventeen years of experience as apprentice and officer in tankers , passenger- and tramp steamers all over the world was at the height of a career as a popular author of tales which bore the legend ‘ a story for boys ’ on title-pages as well as on dust-jackets . |
| 18 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 19 | Over the other end a man was reading the Völkischer Beobachter with the aid of a dictionary . |
| 20 | " Officers had instructions from their employers that no English need apply and that the best chance a man could have to get employment would be that he could not speak the English language ; then he was sure to get a situation " . |
| 21 | Dear old Charlie , he thought sentimentally , the best friend a man ever had . |
| 22 | For two days after their conversation Ruth did not see the woman , and then on the third day a man leaned over from the upper deck and called out to her . |
| 23 | The last time a man had touched her it had been a pleasure , a miracle of sensation . |
| 24 | Had he known it , he had merely started the echo of another man 's voice in Harry 's overburdened mind , saying bitterly : ‘ Light is the last thing a man should willingly surrender . |
| 25 | due to the added responsibility a man tends to have in his jobspecification |
| 26 | I was in a café in Beaconsfield waiting for a bus , and at the next table a man and a woman were passionately discussing Ivy . |
| 27 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 28 | Obviously the other side of the gap had to be blocked in , and to represent the 1840s the choice fell on Timofey Granovsky , in his time a renowned liberal professor and public speaker , and to a lesser extent a man of letters . |
| 29 | In Spain for a man to call a pretty girl a man would be great rudeness . ’ |
| 30 | In the countryside you could still find ‘ in every populous village a man or woman of three-score years of age . |