Example sentences of "man 's [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he was a man 's man through and through . |
| 2 | Sticking her head out of the door , she summoned a nurse and got her to take the young man 's parents back to the interview-room and give them a cup of tea . |
| 3 | Single person 's allowance up £90 to £2425 ; married man 's allowance up to £3795 . |
| 4 | Culley yanked the man 's head back by his hair and cuffed him lightly across the throat . |
| 5 | ‘ These young girls wear an old man 's heart out . |
| 6 | This interlude with Penry Vaughan on Gullholm would be something to remember with gratitude as a sort of enchanted no man 's land in between . |
| 7 | Instead of boldly breaking the charm and paying every man 's debts out of his property , the legislature attempted to turn the flank of the evil — to extort justice by persecution , to arm the creditor with powers of vexation instead of powers of sale , to satisfy his vindictiveness instead of his bill delivered . |
| 8 | You blew , you blew your man 's engines up ! |
| 9 | Andy takes the man 's calves under his armpits and lifts ; I get underneath and force the man 's shoulders up ; his head goes over onto the stone rim of the vent , beneath the grating . |
| 10 | ‘ Rowdy Salford ’ , complained a local rag in 1876 , was too much in the headlines : ‘ Brutal Assault in Salford : Maliciously Wounding with a Knife ’ ; ‘ A Kicking Case in Broughton ’ ; ‘ Knocking a Man 's Eye Out in Salford ’ ; ‘ Assault with a poker in Salford ’ ; ‘ Breaking a Woman 's jaw in Salford ’ ; ‘ Another Assault on the police in Salford ’ . |
| 11 | One of them put a man 's eye out . |
| 12 | Is that something you can easily forget , pulling a man 's trousers on when he 's got handcuffs on and lying on his front ? |
| 13 | It 's no good looking for a man 's body round here if the owner 's living it up in Costa Rica . |
| 14 | ‘ If you threw a man 's body down there , where would it be tomorrow ? ’ asked Monks . |
| 15 | At the moment of extinction , he had held the young man 's mind up like a pierced coconut and let all the thin milk trickle out . |
| 16 | There are some beautiful men 's clothes around . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , I do n't see why God had to put men 's heads up on top of their stupid bodies if it means they just get blown open with shells , that 's all . ’ |