Example sentences of "that a man [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ . The absence of the papers meant that a man convicted of abandoning and ill-treating a prize greyhound could not be sentenced . |
| 2 | They were all agreed that the provision of family allowances would enhance the status of women not only as mothers but as workers because ‘ it would strike at one of the main popular objections to ‘ equal pay for equal work ’ , i.e. the plea that a man requires a family wage whereas a woman requires only an individual subsistence wage ’ ( NUSEC , 1920 , p. 3 ) . |
| 3 | She has the potential for fulfilling all that a man hopes to attain in his life . |
| 4 | Men , on the other hand , were granted dependants ' benefits under national insurance in 1922 , plus the married man 's tax allowance from 1919 , on the assumption that a man supporting a wife needed additional tax relief ( in fact the allowance was paid to all men regardless of whether or not their wives worked ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not every day that a man gets up and finds one of the most gorgeous creatures in the western hemisphere spooning in the cornflakes at the breakfast table , ’ said Leo . |
| 6 | ABOND Corporation director confirmed in Perth last night that a man helping the Australian Federal Police with inquiries about alleged bugging on Mr Robert Holmes a Court 's phones was a former Bond employee . |
| 7 | A few minutes later : ‘ Report that a man heard shots and a woman screaming . ’ |
| 8 | He had heard from other prisoners ( he told Beltrami ) that a man called Ian Waddell had been boasting that he had taken part in the Ayr crime , and then , on a quite different charge , Waddell was sent to Barlinnie himself . |
| 9 | She nodded and he went on , ‘ Well , chance would have it that a man called James Morris called Robert this morning . |
| 10 | It was the jewellery that a man called Edward gave a woman called Wallis . |
| 11 | Everybody in ‘ our town ’ feels indignant about the insult to the respected old gentleman , and a proposal gets off the ground to give a subscription dinner in his honour ; but finally ‘ we ’ think better of it , ‘ perhaps realizing at last that a man had , after all , been pulled by the nose , so there really was n't any cause for a celebration . ’ |
| 12 | Nobody applied the term ‘ silly season ’ to the news that a man had got into Buckingham Palace and had a chat with the Queen , sitting on the edge of her bed . |
| 13 | James Halden was hastening towards the Bagnigge Wells Road when he heard the cry that a man had fallen in the furnace at Smith 's . |
| 14 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |
| 15 | If she heard on the News that a man had been murdered here , she might have thought it was me . |
| 16 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 17 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 18 | He tried to imagine how she might be thinking : the sudden joy that the impossible had happened , that a man had returned from the dead . |
| 19 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 20 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |
| 21 | Opponents argued that the cellars were used for punishment purposes , and Special Branch alleged that a man had been seriously wounded by a knife in the stomach after horseplay between fascists at Black House . |
| 22 | In the Legion , there was no guarantee that a man had even used a flushing loo before . |
| 23 | Finally , the common law contained areas of tortious liability for interference with family and service relationships which were based upon the archaic idea that a man had a proprietary interest in the services of his family and his servants . |
| 24 | And if a yarn was spun , or a general true story that a man had to have his train fare to get to Newark and he had to pay this and that , you could er get a loan on your wages . |
| 25 | He summoned over the waiter , who was chastened now that a man had arrived , and ordered wine to supplement Blanche 's mineral water . |
| 26 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 27 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 28 | The one o'clock news included a brief statement that a man had been detained early that morning while attempting to board a cross-Channel ferry at Dover and was helping police with their enquiries into the murder of Angelica Caroli , found stabbed in her Gloucestershire home the previous Thursday . |
| 29 | And suppose they found out that a man had slipped through their fingers ? |
| 30 | She told them that a man had knocked on the door of her home in Hereford claiming to be from the council . |