Example sentences of "[noun] of a man [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It held the faint tang of a man 's aftershave and she hugged it to her for a moment before realising how ridiculous she was being . |
| 2 | An impressive group of Italian Mannerist drawings has as its focal point this previously unknown study of a man 's head , one of only three studies for the ‘ Joseph in Egypt ’ in the National Gallery , London a rare discovery by any standards . |
| 3 | It is possible that the silent witness of a man 's life was more in accordance with the tradition of meditation and contemplation that Gandhi was accustomed to than the more vocal and prophetic approach of the Christian tradition . |
| 4 | The occasional murmur of a man 's voice , the swish of a nurse 's skirt , the creak of bed-springs , the chink of slung-weights shifting , the clink of a glass being replaced on a locker-top , floated in over the screen . |
| 5 | Mirth is never the most important part of a man 's life and can indeed be irksome in times of depression or trouble . |
| 6 | SINCE life is the entire period until we die , a philosophy of life must apply to every part of a man 's life , not just the productive part . |
| 7 | Trapped under one of the huge concrete blocks was part of a man 's leg , severed at the knee . |
| 8 | It forms a part of a man 's life , more deeply ingrained as he matures . |
| 9 | The penis is arguably the laziest and most unpredictable part of a man 's body . |
| 10 | Police first suspected Mr Davison had been killed when they the upper part of a man 's torso was found in a lake at Reigate in Surrey . |
| 11 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 12 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 13 | For a second or two she felt the protection of a man 's arms holding her securely and then she had crashed on top of him and was lying spread-eagled on a rock-hard body , deceptively concealed beneath soft fabric . |
| 14 | Are both genuine determinations of a man 's due ? |
| 15 | And Martyn Lloyd-Jones ' view was that ‘ prayer is the ultimate test of a man 's true spiritual condition . |
| 16 | Under the old farming of pre-machine days a good test of a man 's farming skill was to observe whether his land was clean or foul with weeds . |
| 17 | Padding the streets and prying into the window of a man 's life , and the trail turned him towards the second-floor flat of Mrs Angela Holly ( née Wells ) , two miles from the home of her former husband and parents-in-law . |
| 18 | In relationships they can go into the challenging and testing of a man 's intention , and into the releasing of inhibitions in the sexual act . |
| 19 | The author 's job is not merely to offer an illustrated Who 's Who entry , but to turn elements of a man 's life into a dramatic entity . |
| 20 | Prayer for Gandhi is the essence of religion and the core of a man 's life . |
| 21 | The court appearance , at Hereford , follows the discovery of a man 's body on Sunday morning beside a cycle track in the city . |
| 22 | One of the greatest gifts known to man is the one he can give himself of a joyous heart and it can come from no one else , for it comes from the springs of a man 's own spirit . |
| 23 | It is curious that he should select such a subject for his essay , drawn from a newspaper announcement of a man 's death . |
| 24 | Over the period of a man 's life , small changes are in fact detectable — the magnetic poles wander very slowly around the geographic poles , so the direction of ‘ magnetic ’ north varies slightly from year to year . |
| 25 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 26 | Generally speaking , we shall include under the notion of a man 's property in its widest sense all rights which are capable of being transferred to others , of being made available for payment of his debts , or of passing to his representatives on his death . |
| 27 | Something about the back of a man 's neck would remind me of him . |
| 28 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 29 | The word ‘ estate ’ is often used to denote the whole of a man 's proprietary rights , more especially after his death . |
| 30 | Of course , people do act out of character — but not often in a matter involving almost the whole of a man 's private fortune . |