Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the man in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hammond laughed , but his face was filled with loathing for the man in front of him . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life . |
| 3 | Roman asked the receptionist for Garry 's room number and Claudia saw the girl 's polite manner deepen to one of appreciation of the man in front of her . |
| 4 | They might have got on the wrong side of the man in black , but the Comrades made an awful lot of friends . |
| 5 | But her voice quivered on the last word as she remembered the cold , dispassionate violence of the man in the alehouse . |
| 6 | ( One of the uplifting consequences of the riots was the overshadowing of the visit of Mr and Mrs Michael Gorbachev , who arrived on the Forbes jet ‘ The Spirit of Free Enterprise ’ aka ‘ Capitalist Tool ’ , and who repaired to the ranch of the man in ample measure responsible for the riots , where the Russian couple were given cowboy hats . ) |
| 7 | After the coming of the man in the night , Miguel had grown glum and thoughtful . |
| 8 | In the village shop , Mrs Hollidaye introduced Dot to the man in a brown overall who stood behind the wooden counter . |
| 9 | ‘ Er , he pleads not guilty m' lud , ’ interjected the defence lawyer , throwing an anxious glance at the man in the dock as he resumed his seat . |
| 10 | He stood on a chair , and with his hands he covered the hat and hair of the man in the picture . |
| 11 | He nodded in the direction of the man in the bed . |
| 12 | Thus Mike the Italian was cleared , but Berret was still a little unsure of Candy : he fitted well the description of the man in the blue suit . |
| 13 | Yet this is plainly a mighty achievement , an emphatically complete portrait of the man in his age — his humiliating stint in the blacking factory , his mushrooming early fame , his obsession with the theatre , his long career as a journalist , his exacting work methods , his ferocious energy , his hallucinating imagination , his politics , his family , his friendships , his enmities ; everything is here , sifted , ordered , narrated . |
| 14 | Joan Greenwood and Alec Guinness in a quiet scene from The Man in the White suit ( 1951 ) |
| 15 | There must be a direct line of accountability from the man in the street , via his MP who is accountable to his constituents , to the minister who takes part in the Council of Ministers and the government , who are accountable to parliament . |
| 16 | We have some good news , yes , but it 's not going to have any immediate benefit on the man in the street — the local trader . |
| 17 | The hijacker in the black shirt came out of the Captain 's cabin behind the man in white , but two other men in white came through the door and shot him too . |
| 18 | So when the espresso machine was quiet for a moment , she leaned over to catch the attention of the man in the Aquascutum raincoat . |
| 19 | Then comes the whip , the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street . |
| 20 | They resented its reluctance to accept that the opinion of a psychologist based on test evidence was more valid than the opinion of the man in the street — or on the jury — based on observation , and they were annoyed that the court failed to recognise that the tests involved were as confidential as those carried out by any other medical practitioner . |
| 21 | It 's really neat I reckon — like that picture of the man in that rowing boat . |
| 22 | There is no bumping into the man in front as we cross the fields and move along the narrow Normandy lanes . |
| 23 | He looks quickly in his mirror , and sees the head of the man in the car behind move from side to side with sardonic patience . |
| 24 | First because she 's separated by distance from the man in her life . |
| 25 | Newman only caught a glimpse of the man in a dark leather jacket but he looked remarkably like Steve , the thug who had accompanied Papa Grimwood on their visit to Greenway Gardens , Wandsworth . |
| 26 | Possibly this will mean changes in behaviour ( such as the role of the man in housework ) which violate the norms and values into which they were socialised . |
| 27 | He 'll show you how to impress your friends and he 'll talk about the role of the man in the kitchen . |
| 28 | Since I made an arrangement with the man in your office I am having a baby and my doctor says I should be getting more of it . |
| 29 | The men went in and stated their case to the man in charge , but he merely informed them that they would get nothing immediately and that they were to come back when their money had gone . |
| 30 | The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock . |