Example sentences of "[prep] a man [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are both genuine determinations of a man 's due ? |
| 2 | On the contrary — she had sworn never to marry , never to expose herself to the mercy of a man 's rough or abusive treatment . |
| 3 | Of course , people do act out of character — but not often in a matter involving almost the whole of a man 's private fortune . |
| 4 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 5 | The word ‘ estate ’ is often used to denote the whole of a man 's proprietary rights , more especially after his death . |
| 6 | She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig . |
| 7 | And Martyn Lloyd-Jones ' view was that ‘ prayer is the ultimate test of a man 's true spiritual condition . |
| 8 | His public pronouncements are unequivocal in this respect , and although it is clearly not possible to accept such public pronouncements as the definitive expression of a man 's innermost beliefs and convictions , and although it is also evidently the case that to be published in L'Humanite and Ce Soir inevitably necessitates obedience to the party line , nonetheless the consistency and vigour with which Nizan presented an entirely positive view of developments within the Soviet Union are an instructive antidote to those critics desperately searching for evidence of Nizan 's growing anti-Stalinism/anti-communism during this period . |
| 9 | Nobody would be capable of identifying the paragraph as words which were the equivalent of a man 's post-coital sadness or silence . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Making sure that the precious package that she had come all this way to deliver was still safely at the bottom , she dressed in comfortable jeans , and what looked like a man 's old-fashioned sleeved vest , dyed red , and she was ready . |
| 12 | BASILDON New Towngate Theatre ( 0268-532 632 ) Second Stride Heaven Ablaze in His Breast rehashed Coppelia based on Hoffmann 's ‘ The Sandman ’ about a man 's dangerous obsession with a mechanical doll to Sat . |
| 13 | If public medical statements have been made about a man 's deleterious effect on his son 's psyche there is bound to be anxiety and embarrassment attendant on their meeting . |
| 14 | He rarely made fundamental mistakes and never , she suspected , about a man 's scientific ability . |
| 15 | Playing with a man 's bare bum |
| 16 | Never before had she been so aware of a man 's nakedness , of the beauty in a man 's strong , well-proportioned frame . |
| 17 | Loyalty , belief — it is all in a man 's own mind . |
| 18 | A letter in a man 's own hand is evidence to be read , along the lines and between the lines , and Owen can read as well as any , and better than most . |
| 19 | The memory of being held in a man 's hard arms had disappeared . |
| 20 | All external things are beyond a man 's absolute control — stronger men in greater numbers may thwart any aim , at any moment disaster can intervene , fortune is always fickle , and death is always at hand . |
| 21 | Sally explains : ‘ I designed a cropped pin-stripe jacket which I thought I would sequin but it was too heavy , so I have put bright , luminous shiny pink and purple braiding on to a man 's pin-stripe suit material . |
| 22 | The first two lines of the first stanza are symbolic of the suns ability to give life as they refer to a man 's physical awakening , but here the tone changes . |
| 23 | The way to a man 's mathematical heart is to get him ( and her ! ) grappling with characteristically mathematical problems and enjoying the experience . |
| 24 | In 1901 he was appointed conductor of the Toynbee Musical Association , a mixed-voice choir attached to a men 's social club , and in 1906 he founded the Glasgow Orpheus Choir , with which his name became indelibly linked for the rest of his life . |