Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun sg] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |
| 2 | At that moment a man in an old black coat rushed in . |
| 3 | Rokovssky , at this moment a man of curses and oaths , knew he had to send a telegram to Marcelle Fayette in the morning . |
| 4 | John Butcher says at this moment a man on bail for rape is on the run ine the Midlands . |
| 5 | At some point a man in a neat suit materialized . |
| 6 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 7 | Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs . |