Example sentences of "man [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God formed man from the dust of the ground , says the book of Genesis , and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life , and man became a living soul . |
| 2 | Until man became a considerable predator , they did not need to fly ; instead they have long , strong legs for running . |
| 3 | Let your man make a bold statement with this sporty outfit . |
| 4 | He resembled nothing so much as an old man reliving a glorious moment of his past . |
| 5 | His talk about not wanting her had been nonsense , stuff handed out by a man salvaging a bruised ego . |
| 6 | Through the half-open door he could see an old man sharpening a cut-throat razor on a strap , stroking it up and down in rhythm . |
| 7 | Shortly before Mrs Harvey was raped , the man attacked a 25-year-old woman half-a-mile away but she escaped . |
| 8 | The condemned man owned a small paper shop in Sheffield , in the north of England . |
| 9 | In one case a Leeds man received a quarterly bill for more than three thousand pounds after British Gas engineers fitted his new meter back to front ! |
| 10 | If neither man wins a clear majority , parliament will decide in August , after the usual inter-party bargaining . |
| 11 | Their spectacular entrance over , the two girls stripped naked , and the athletic young man produced a long whip . |
| 12 | The man drew a long breath and spoke clearly . |
| 13 | The man drew a hissing breath of impatience as he gritted , ‘ Tell your mother it 's imperative for me to reach the other side of the river . |
| 14 | A MAN beat a lone woman hiker almost to death with a rock after she turned down his sexual advances , a court heard . |
| 15 | This young man has a long way to go if he 's to earn a PhD in Biology like his mum . |
| 16 | ‘ The young man has a real gift ’ , he told Zborowski patronizingly . |
| 17 | If deer have a tough life it is entirely due to human history , so man has a moral obligation to look after their well-being . |
| 18 | If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land . |
| 19 | Do stay with us , John , because I think this man has a good word to say . |
| 20 | It is true that a comparison of the generally accepted life-expectancy figures between the West and the Third World countries , or a comparison between ourselves and our grandparents ' generation , would show that modern Western man has a great advantage in average expectation of life . |
| 21 | In place of a Socratic self-assurance , modern man has a Faustian yearning . |
| 22 | If a man has a loaded gun we will probably recognize him immediately as having power . |
| 23 | The man has a broken thigh and the woman severe concussion . |
| 24 | An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on . |
| 25 | Following the death of former professional dancer Mr Walker , whose parents kept a general store in Seaforth , a man phoned a tabloid newspaper claiming responsibility . |
| 26 | " Every man needs a good woman , b'Jesus he does . " |
| 27 | This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen , which were otherwise a fabulous mystery . |
| 28 | Iron Age man built a massive earthwork here , now known as Danes Dyke , and the early settlers also found a ready supply of flints in the chalk cliffs from which they made many of their primitive tools . |
| 29 | Carl Jung , writing about black Americans in the 1930s , believed that ‘ the inferior man exercises a tremendous pull upon civilized beings who are forced to live with him , because he fascinates the inferior layers of our psyche ’ . |
| 30 | Only the carpet of snow relieved its drabness , and that was being rolled up by a man driving a small tractor with a scoop on the front . |