Example sentences of "man in his [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good stories are told and enjoyed ; some old people are indeed exceptional , such as the man in his 70s who went parachuting recently , or the trenchant recollections of a man of 108 shown on television . |
| 2 | Four other people were taken to hospital , including a man in his 60s who jumped from an upstairs window and a 56-year-old woman suffering from shock and the effects of smoke . |
| 3 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 4 | The druggist , a bird-like little man in his fifties who longed to repeat his father 's reputation as town matchmaker , but had so little chance since the youngsters who had n't moved out permanently were commuting to bigger towns , was delighted to see two mature strangers getting together over coffee . |
| 5 | Now police want to talk to a man in his fifties who was walking a black labrador-type dog in the area at the time . |
| 6 | The dead man , who has not been officially identified , is believed to be Brian O'Hare , a quiet man in his fifties who lived alone . |
| 7 | CASE STUDY 3.4 — MR HAMISH A social worker was called to see an old man in his seventies who had been taken to the police station for shoplifting a tin of corned beef . |
| 8 | An interesting example is the case of a man in his mid-thirties who suffered from bad neck tension and who , while having his neck treated , began to rub his hands round the sides of his chest . |
| 9 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |