Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a man [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN explosion ripped through a man 's living room yesterday as he watched a TV film in which Michael Caine blew up a safe . |
| 2 | The field of pictorial and explicit pornography is generally regarded as a man 's province . |
| 3 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 4 | ‘ You could n't have had a golf course made for a man 's game more than that golf course for John Daly , ’ observed the man who has won more Masters than anyone , six all told and now playing his 34th in succession . |
| 5 | Nicolo shifted unhappily in the little gilt chair that had certainly not been made for a man 's body . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He saw a cloud shaped like a man 's fist . |
| 8 | Women , children and dependent adults are all subsumed within a man 's family , and their capacities for individuality and self-expression are of secondary importance , seen from this perspective . |
| 9 | It was only a beard — true enough — but it had been connected to a man 's face for many many years . |
| 10 | The classic phrase which describes the plight of the transsexual is that ‘ he feels he is a woman locked in a man 's body ’ . |
| 11 | Elaborately carved vases , figures , and smaller versions of the great jade mountains found in Ch'ing palaces further contributed to a man 's standing and enhanced the aesthetic ambience of the higher reaches of Chinese administration . |
| 12 | Family honour and pride , which are so easily upset by a woman 's actions , are far less easily affected by a man 's errors . |
| 13 | It surprised him a little ; he would not have thought her so easily affected by a man 's touch . |
| 14 | When we reached Mandalay it was in flames , Auntie Edie Mann 's hospital from Rangoon had been evacuated to Mandalay , and again it was bombed , so she , clad in a man 's shirt and shorts and tennis shoes , was flown out to Calcutta . |
| 15 | Is it beyond imagination , in these days of biological engineering , to conceive of a time when embryos will be implanted in a man 's body , and develop , and be born — perhaps by caesarian section ? |
| 16 | But research in America has suggested very strongly that it 's actually a special sex fluid , similar to a secretion which is ejaculated from a man 's prostate gland , but produced by a sensitive structure near the famous G-spot . |
| 17 | Thus is politics defined as a man 's world . |
| 18 | This was known as — ‘ Here 's to the next time ’ and was followed by a man 's voice which says — ‘ Good evening ladies and gentlemen . |
| 19 | The Common Cause , reporting a case of the wrongful arrest of a woman for alleged prostitution , commented that the suspect was ‘ taken to a man 's court , tried and sentenced by men under men 's laws for a fault she can not commit alone ’ . |
| 20 | He looks offended when I tell him he is perceived as a man 's man . |
| 21 | The memory of being held in a man 's hard arms had disappeared . |
| 22 | It was over three months now since she had known the sensation of being held in a man 's arms . |