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 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Corde du roi : despite its name , no regal connection for the poor man 's velvet |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He told William Mackay , the solicitor acting for the dead man 's family , that he discussed the shortage of drugs with other nurses . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you all right , Wei Feng ? ’ he asked , concerned for the old man 's health . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sport is seen as the black man 's second nature . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The scarlet pimpernel is so sensitive that it is often known as the Poor Man 's Weather Glass . |
| 20 | Philpott surprised many of his team by appointing him , and not Kolchinsky , as the dead man 's successor . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I want you as well dressed as the next man 's daughter . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But this is a transitional style , somewhere between the white man 's painting and native Aboriginal art . |
| 26 | It was something about the old man 's attitude that had made him cry . |
| 27 | Specifically I dream about the old man 's parchment hands with their cheroot fingers , endlessly rolling the container in his hand , this movement polishing and burnishing it , an insistent but unexplained movement of the sort that happens in dreams . |
| 28 | ‘ And you want to know about the old man 's will ? ’ |
| 29 | There was something reptilian about the old man 's grip . |
| 30 | What was he doing , prowling about the old man 's studio like a nosey neighbour ? |