Example sentences of "high [conj] [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond , surrounding a thicket of rushes , stood an enclosure of posts and rails half as high as a man . |
| 2 | Jutting out of it were a series of tall posts , high as a man , and attacking them were a score of figures whilst thirty others looked on , wooden swords in their hands , and three Myrcans directed the whole group . |
| 3 | The reeds here were as high as a man , water gurgling in the creeks , running towards the sea . |
| 4 | It was a little higher than a man , and it ended , rough and unfinished , in the centre of the clearing around the bank of screens . |
| 5 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 6 | A report in the American journal of Epidemiology says that a father 's sperm and a mother 's womb may be damaged by smoking and that the chances of cancer developing in their children were 20 per cent higher when the man smoked and 30 per cent higher when the woman smoked . |