Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] man in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were expecting you down at the Man in the Moon . |
| 2 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 3 | He stood up like a man in a dream . |
| 4 | It is dangerous ( and forbidden to employees ) , but is you observe common-sense , stand firmly and hold the wood in same way each time , with all soft pink bits well away from the blade , you will not end up like the man in the story that the same Health and Safety Officer delighted in telling me . |
| 5 | The thought of several days cooped up with the man in some dreary Rectory was … |
| 6 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 7 | It 's fun to see the no-nonsense , motor-bike-riding heroine beating up on the men in true fantasy-heroic style , but her attempts to encourage her young protege in self-defence end in disaster , making the messages it gives out totally confused and its solutions seeming no more realistic than Ms 45 storing her rapist in the fridge and blowing male scum off the street . |
| 8 | ‘ Duvall … ? ’ said Jimmy in a quiet voice , sidling up to the man in a curious , almost apologetic way . |
| 9 | This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ? |
| 10 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
| 11 | Stok stood up and put his hands on the small of his back and threw his head back like a man in pain . |
| 12 | This is surprising since the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) has ruled in that the refusal to engage a pregnant woman and a dismissal on grounds of pregnancy are a form of direct discrimination covered by Council Directive 76/207/ EEC without the necessity to resort to comparisons with the treatment which would be meted out to a man in a comparable situation . |
| 13 | Ashley 's concentration wavered and her thoughts travelled back to the man in the car . |
| 14 | Anything which is n't identified beyond doubt , will go back to the man in whose house it was found . |
| 15 | They thought Stella was wonderful , though Lily gasped audibly when , in the middle of her speech , she had to be helped out by a man in a white toga . |
| 16 | Nor was she forced out by the men in grey suits — though intrigue played a major role . |
| 17 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 18 | She was a singer in a band which was on the verge of big pop success when the group started to be messed around by the men in suits . |