Example sentences of "man [conj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | T. D. People were scared of you — did n't matter whether you were a big man or a small man . |
| 2 | ‘ Prue ! ’ exclaims Howard , very pleased to hear the familiar impossible voice at such a moment , when he is feeling so raw and exposed from watching himself , and so uncertain whether he is a great man or a great fool . |
| 3 | Much of the psychological pain caused by infertility of either partner comes from the idea that you are not a real man or a real woman if , for any reason , some small part of your reproductive system works inadequately . |
| 4 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 5 | Was he a grand old man or a proper perisher ? |
| 6 | As one delegate to the International Abolitionist Conference of 1906 argued , science with her austere voice ought to tell man that a higher stage of civilization depended on the mastery of his instincts . |
| 7 | What was more exhilarating to a poor man than a sudden influx of unearned cash , springing from a seemingly limitless fertile source ? |
| 8 | Sara as she greeted him was conscious again of his physical charm , but there was more to a man than a pretty envelope . |
| 9 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 10 | A large man and a small boy appeared at the other end of the platform : she hobbled on her heels , humping her heavy suitcase , towards them . |
| 11 | Mr. Pedder , who had lived at Dove 's Nest ( near Low Wood , Windermere ) ‘ is a very good humoured man and a gentlemanly man when sober , but , nearly tipsy , is peevish and queer ’ . |
| 12 | So taboos may exist which prohibit social intercourse between a man and a young girl having her first menstruation , or between females and a young male who has just reached puberty , because there is strong unconscious , or even conscious , desire to have sexual relations with the girls or boys ( incest ) . |
| 13 | Just as it finished , a grey-haired man and a young woman got out of a coach and walked across the bridge . |
| 14 | A young man and a young woman are carrying it . ’ ’ |
| 15 | This lured another couple to their feet : rather , a very much older man and a young woman who held him away from her , one hand pleating his sleeve . |
| 16 | But now I have Timmy , a nice little man and a grand companion . |
| 17 | A really great man and a powerful man . |
| 18 | Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Christie , ’ said a voice , ‘ you do n't know me but I know you , We have met and I know that you are a good man and a religious man . |
| 20 | I decided that it would be a Colonel Shelhi , a very intelligent man and a great admirer of Colonel Nasser . |
| 21 | Since then she 's got a new man and a new baby , five weeks old , who lay in her father 's arms clad in the all-white uniform of the newborn . |
| 22 | Both The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin , White Masks close with affirmations made in the knowledge of exactly what threatens them — that being , after all , what both books are about , and what powerfully pre-empts the charge of humanist sentimentality : ‘ I can already see a white man and a black man hand in hand ’ ( Black Skin , 222 ) . |
| 23 | It is an inter-racial cross-sexual love affair between a white man and a black transvestite . |
| 24 | Abse is an intelligent , well-informed man and a good writer , when he can be weaned from his Freudian claptrap and its related jargon . |
| 25 | Burghley told him that Elizabeth still considered him ‘ both an honest man and a good subject ’ but said that he should not raise such matters in the House . |
| 26 | Franco repeated that Maidstone was crazy but he was a good man and a good customer too . |
| 27 | A straight man and a good fisherman . |
| 28 | Alan says powerboating is like going down a hill in snow on a tin tray … its a bit punishing … shakes you about … he 's got a good throttle man and a good navigator |
| 29 | Above all , ‘ Sandy ’ Thom was esteemed by his colleagues ; he was truly egregious but a kind man and a good skipper , whether of a yacht 's crew , a survey party , or a department . |
| 30 | In his mid-forties , he was a quiet man and a noted specialist in thyroid problems , but not even his best friend could call him handsome . |