Example sentences of "to a man [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm against rape but definitely if a woman er goes to a man 's bed then it 's quite er er sensible that if a man expects to have sex with that woman . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 've just wasted ten minutes trying to listen to a man 's chest . |
| 4 | Furthermore a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress was not made according to a man 's stereotype of how a woman should look , although Laura believed that the covered-up , ‘ floaty ’ look was what men liked . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | This letter written to the Daily Jang , an established Urdu newspaper printed in Britain , shows how the family responds to a man 's promiscuity . |
| 7 | Er one time the locksmiths had a rise from ni eighteen , twenty to twenty-one a man , it was a big rise but the locksmiths ' union they altered it from to twenty and a half , twenty-one , twenty-one and a half , three rises before you went from a lad to a man 's raise , you know . |
| 8 | Clearly she knew the way to a man 's heart was through his feet . |
| 9 | They say the way to a man 's heart is through his stomach , so pick up an elegant Gentleman 's Gift Tray from Waitrose at £13.50 . |
| 10 | But mum still knows the best way to a man 's heart , according to a new survey . |
| 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 | A woman 's work is slightly different to a man 's work . |
| 13 | It sounds to a man 's understanding as if women had hitherto been kept in disagreeable subjection to the stronger and sterner sex . |
| 14 | Thus they considered it an affront to a man 's dignity — but not to a woman 's — to earn a wage only on a par with social security benefits . |
| 15 | It was only a beard — true enough — but it had been connected to a man 's face for many many years . |
| 16 | Though she found it hard to judge his age , he had a look of unabashed power that only years of experience could brand on to a man 's face . |
| 17 | The one up there , amidst trees and mountains , where they winters are long and lonely and do strange things to a man 's mind . |
| 18 | He had sensed her fear of yielding to a man 's passion and had reined in his desire immediately . |
| 19 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |