Example sentences of "[noun] a man [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Above the laughter a man 's voice carried and Robert Menzies recognized the wine-merchant from Weem . |
2 | After a moment a man 's voice said in Italian : |
3 | The Danakil did not hunt and the Abyssinians , who had wiped out most of the game elsewhere , were afraid to venture into their country , since among the Danakil a man 's standing depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated . |
4 | Up north they call rugby league a man 's game . |
5 | In the background a man 's voice pleads : ‘ Is she going to be all right ? |
6 | Even so , like a dog at the bone , The Times was driven to search out the foreign disposition of the garotters , accusing them of abandoning the traditional civility of the traditional English highway robbery : ‘ Without the old challenge and parley in use among highwaymen , your garotter knocks a man 's head against the kerbstone as the best way of getting at his pocket . ’ |
7 | In the West we rely on the law of contract for all business agreements , but in a Moslem culture a man 's word is just as binding . |
8 | Late Victorian Nonconformity was to a considerable extent a man 's religion . |
9 | This time a man 's voice shouted , ‘ Keep calling . ’ |