Example sentences of "of a man [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a hard weather-beaten old face which might have belonged to a nobleman , a yeoman , a mariner , or a philosopher ; for there was so much of a man that you lost sight of superadded distinctions . |
| 2 | And it was not the five-year-old image of a man that she loved , but the man he was now . |
| 3 | This has been described as " the affection of a man that clingeth to God , a homely and pious speaking , a standing of the enlightened soul unto enjoying for so long as may be " . |
| 4 | ‘ My body was that of a man but deep down I had the heart of a woman . |
| 5 | Wendy ; Actually we 're pretty lucky to have him , not only because he 's a whole hunk of a man but also because we 're all full time students which means that we do n't have to pay this new Council tax . |
| 6 | Not particularly good-looking but by God she was more of a man than any of them . |
| 7 | Nudity and the Italian art world seem to go together : Achille Bonito Oliva , commissioner of this year 's Biennale also appeared naked on the cover of a magazine , but he is more of a man than Sgarbi and is not coyly covering his private parts . |
| 8 | Even Crump himself might be better meeting his Judgement now , after a life of useful business , than later when the disturbances of retirement — already foreshadowed — would most likely have made him less of a man than he was now , less happy , less useful , perhaps even diminished , by turbulent pettiness , in the very qualities which might now ensure his redemption . |
| 9 | I thought you more of a man than that . ’ |
| 10 | You 're more of a man than I am , can I quote |
| 11 | According to our blonde stewardess , herself an object of fantasy , all life was a mindless rush , gabbled nonsense , sweaty commuting between the only moments that made sense , the embrace of a man and a woman . |
| 12 | The pairing family was an uninstitutionalized de facto long-term association of a man and a woman . |
| 13 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 14 | Annie had drawed me a going-away card — a real good picture of a man and a house . |
| 15 | Often tension arises between the mother and the wife of a man and no matter how unjust the attitude of the mother , society expects the son to respect his mother 's wishes more than those of his wife . |
| 16 | A CACHE of suspected IRA arms and explosives was uncovered in London yesterday less than 24 hours after the arrest of a man and a woman suspected of involvement in terrorism . |
| 17 | If being a real person implies consciously living before God , as we saw in the previous chapter , then the integrity of a man and woman living together needs the further consciousness of God in both their lives . |
| 18 | Ever since the days when Hawaiian nobles played out tribal and sexual politics in the ocean , surfers have been the beneficiaries of a semiotic hyperinflation conferring the virtues of naturalness , freedom , potency , on the simple juxtaposition of a man and a board and a wave . |
| 19 | Valuable clues to marital alliances are contained in two conventions for the depiction of armorial bearings of a man and his wife , known as impalement and escutcheon of pretence . |
| 20 | of a man and woman who conspired to eat each other — |
| 21 | Me , a stump of a man and they wanted to make me Cesar Romero . |
| 22 | possessing the head and torso of a man and the body and legs of a potent stallion , centaurs were the offspring of the first King of Thessaly and the cloud Nephele . |
| 23 | With the body of a man and the head of a huge bull , this creature was the result of a frenzied union between Pasiphae , Queen of Crete , and a white sea-bull . |
| 24 | Minutes later every police station in the Metropolitan area was receiving a description of a man and instructions for every beat officer to keep an eye open , to spot but not approach , to radio back to the police station and tail the suspect but not intervene . |
| 25 | Not until the child had come round , white-faced but spluttering and coughing , did Bert become aware of a man and a woman standing beside him : dishevelled , panic-stricken and shamefaced . |
| 26 | Her dislike of him was such that during the filming of A Letter to Four Wives , in which she picks up a photograph of a man and reacts with distaste , director Joe Mankiewicz used a photo of Preminger which prompted exactly the right expression from Darnell . |
| 27 | A homestead consists typically of a man and his wife ( or wives ) with their children , and in addition the families of a few other close patrilineal relatives . |
| 28 | This meant the provision of a wage large enough for the needs of a man and wife supplemented by a state-paid system of allowances for all children . |
| 29 | He was the biggest man in Polruan was Uncle Harry , a real giant of a man and once she had seen him knock a child over by mistake when all he had meant to do was cuff him playfully on the ear . |
| 30 | Second , there are many loopholes in the legislation ; for instance , until very recently a woman could only claim equal pay if she were doing the identical work of a man and , since occupations are typically segregated by sex , it is often difficult to find such a comparable man . |