Example sentences of "of a man [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked whether clerics really could take authoritative decisions on issues such as oil production , he replied with the practised gestures of a man used to presenting arguments to the sceptical : ‘ Islam can solve all difficulties ; it was so in the past and it will be the same in the future . ’ |
| 2 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |
| 3 | The kings and kinglets of barbarian Europe commonly knew their pedigrees back to Woden ; and any lapse of memory — or the promotion of a man unprovided with ancestors — was quickly remedied by pious invention . |
| 4 | He sat back in his wheelchair with the self-satisfied grin of a man proud of his own ingenuity . |
| 5 | And the shape Aldhelm would present was that of a man young by his step and pace , in a dun-coloured cloak wrapped about him against the rain , and with the pointed hood drawn up over his head . |
| 6 | Crowe and Anthea Warburton lay parallel , Anthea pale only by contrast with Lady Rose 's bright darkness , and with the sunburnt red earth colour of Crowe , who had the look of a man bronzed against nature by willpower and decisive planning , a man whose ruddiness was made for peeling crimson but who had constrained his skin to stay on — even the thin shiny tonsure — and go terra-cotta . |
| 7 | The playwright is acted brilliantly by John Turturro , who has the kind of aloof self-felicitation of a man conscious of his own rare perceptions . |