Example sentences of "[adj] man ['s] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she dreamed of him again it would be this man 's face she would see . |
| 2 | As I passed the table with the remains of the old man 's meal I saw what seemed to be the only form of ornament in the cottage , a cracked vase holding a magnificent bouquet of carnations . |
| 3 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 4 | It is not the poor man 's shelter it pretends to be , but a rich man 's plaything , related to that larger Dairy House which Richardson 's heroine , Clarissa , inherits half a century earlier from her grandfather . |
| 5 | And as they went on , you know , it was gradually working up and so therefore the graph , each man 's productivity you know , was rising . |
| 6 | ‘ Apparently , ’ Conolly continues , ‘ Champagne is to be restored to the position of the rich man 's drink it enjoyed before those wretched own-label chappies started making it available to all ! ’ |
| 7 | And they both have the one man 's name I really ca n't stand . |
| 8 | I am one man 's meat I am nobody 's fool I refuse to make fish of the |
| 9 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 10 | The reception was all that we had hoped and planned ; the young best man gave the best best man 's speech I have ever heard ! |