Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] man [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Last night Det Chief Supt Colin Port , heading the kidnap hunt , said : ‘ We are gravely concerned for the abducted man 's safety .
2 He 'll be pinning his faith on Henry and his autumn parliament to raise the money for the young man 's ransom , no doubt .
3 He felt he might even have given the captain a good run for his money if it had n't been for the damn man 's obvious advantage of height and weight .
4 That it is wrong , we may learn from the sights all around us : drunken men lying on the ground , cursing and making oaths ; young women lost to the bondage of early motherhood , always pushing children about in small carts , and making oaths ; reckless gamblers who by their own improvidence must sell double-glazing for the prudent man 's windows .
5 Welsh open stroke play champion Macara is the only northerner in Wales ' six-man squad for the European men 's team championships in Czechoslovakia from July 1–4 , although Wrexham 's Matthew Ellis is also named in the squad as a non-travelling reserve .
6 Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness .
7 The American Viking craft that landed on Mars reported that there was no organic material there — another victory for the poor man 's space-probe .
8 Corde du roi : despite its name , no regal connection for the poor man 's velvet
9 This contained cunningly inlaid pouches holding a little gold and some silver ( which I pocketed to have Masses said for the poor man 's soul ) , and a small roll of parchment .
10 Mr Hopkins , who was a baker , saved rations and made Christmas cakes for the two men 's bereaved families in America .
11 Brigade officers said that but for the two men 's prompt action the woman almost certainly would have died .
12 The room contained nothing personal except for the dead man 's clothes and these were carefully stored in the great wardrobe and the chest-of-drawers .
13 He told William Mackay , the solicitor acting for the dead man 's family , that he discussed the shortage of drugs with other nurses .
14 BRITAIN 'S Monique Javer took advantage of an erratic performance by Dominique Monami , of Belgium , to reach the second round of the Suntory Japan Open yesterday , while Mark Petchey qualified for the top-class men 's event , in which Stefan Edberg is defending his title , by defeating South Africa 's Byron Talbot 6-7 , 6-1 , 6-4 .
15 The backhand slash completing the figure-of-eight sped unerringly for the doomed man 's neck , and an instant later his severed head somersaulted high in the air , to bounce and roll to a stop on the mat several feet away .
16 Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility .
17 ‘ Are you all right , Wei Feng ? ’ he asked , concerned for the old man 's health .
18 His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response .
19 Sport is seen as the black man 's second nature .
20 He flicked his own eyes towards the rear seat , and his heart leapt as the black man 's eyes narrowed slightly then glanced at the figure in the back .
21 If salmon is still the rich man 's herring , one can no longer think of herrings as the poor man 's salmon for they have become so expensive that one buys them by the troy ounce .
22 Last month he starred as the poor man 's hero in the film Robin Hood and now he 's playing a wealthy land agent in Granada TV 's new series , The Real Charlotte , which starts next Monday .
23 The scarlet pimpernel is so sensitive that it is often known as the Poor Man 's Weather Glass .
24 Philpott surprised many of his team by appointing him , and not Kolchinsky , as the dead man 's successor .
25 They are essentially threatening or assaulting practices and , like silent or heavy-breathing telephone calls , may be thought of as the sexually-poor man 's rape !
26 But looked at in its full historical perspective , Karajan 's career from 1929 to 1949 was as subject to trauma , disruption , and the vagaries of the times as the next man 's .
27 ‘ I want you as well dressed as the next man 's daughter . ’
28 Divorced people paying alimony will receive tax relief only on an amount equal to the difference between the married man 's allowance and the single person 's allowance .
29 But this is a transitional style , somewhere between the white man 's painting and native Aboriginal art .
30 The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study .
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