Example sentences of "man [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was confidence — the first man to carry his own food and water across the Sahara , and I had not even left the main road yet . |
| 2 | Turning , he leaned against a rock and scribbled a few sentences — with the air of a man signing his own death warrant , I thought . |
| 3 | The old man proposed his own house , the largest in Arghuri . |
| 4 | I mean , perhaps our man parked his own car in Reading station car park , then took a train to Maidenhead station and a bus from there to near the river , and went on foot from there to the boatyard … would n't that make sense ? ’ |
| 5 | Both these lights are operative in the writings of the mystics as means by which man sees his own true nature and in doing so also a reflection of God ; it is a state in which they feel themselves to be most fully alive . |
| 6 | I remembered what he 'd told Mavis and me about the book and more than ever I thought it sounded like a good idea — the story of a man rationalizing his own lack of self-belief … |
| 7 | Metaphysics — the white mythology which reassembles and reflects the culture of the West : the white man takes his own mythology , Indo-European mythology , his own logos , that is , the mythos of his idiom , for the universal form of that he must still wish to call Reason . |
| 8 | At Coniston however , it was regular practice for a man to drill his own holes . |
| 9 | For Augustine , mystical experience operated in the gap between the Creator and creature , enabling man to recognise his own true nature and so come to a knowledge of God — a process possible only because of the Incarnation , the love poured out from the being of God to his creatures which revealed how He could be known . |
| 10 | Even so , a man paints his own portrait of a woman , particularly a special woman , and Laura was a special woman . |
| 11 | In general , these private archives served to make lineage history : a man kept his own papers , and his father 's and grandfather 's if he inherited them . |
| 12 | At the simplest level , these may include the need for food and security ; but they range beyond this to the need felt by self-actualisation man to realise his own full potential . |
| 13 | However , although both advanced their ethical and political ideas on the basis of the basic urge of each man to seek his own survival and welfare , Hobbes derives his from a much less lofty view of man 's basic aims . |
| 14 | The seat backs and seats passed along benches fitted with rollers in the centre , so that each man performed his own operation and then passed the back or seat along to the next man in the line . |
| 15 | The great man toasts his own 50th birthday , by Linley Sambourne , July 1891 |
| 16 | Then each man ploughed his own stetch after the first baiter had laid the top . |
| 17 | ‘ Each man runs his own race . |
| 18 | Now what the Capitulary of Thionville actually says is : ‘ When famine or plague occurs , men should not wait for our edict but should straightway pray to God for his mercy ; as to scarcity of food in this present year , let each man help his own people as best he can , and not sell his corn at too high a price . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The battle was over in less than an hour , ’ says the leaflet , and eventually the Prince 's message went out , ‘ Let every man find his own way to safety the best way he can . ’ |
| 20 | Marx is deeply opposed to the idea that a theory has a ‘ starting-point ’ , and in particular to the claim that social phenomena can be explained as the result of universal properties of individuals , and Althusser sums up his scepticism with an epigrammatic flourish : the classical idea that man makes his own history must be countered with the question ‘ How is the man who makes history made ? ’ |
| 21 | It was common for a man to enter his own name , that of his wife , and that of his intended successor , usually the oldest son . |
| 22 | We used to split them up and his men take his that way and th we used to bring ours this way , yeah . |
| 23 | Each of the men had his own lunchtime routine . |