Example sentences of "a man [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rugby world stood up and took notice and Best was marked out as a man destined for greater things . |
| 2 | And a man looked for the . |
| 3 | In his celebrated letter to Chesterfield , Samuel Johnson asks : ‘ Is not a Patron , My Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help . ’ |
| 4 | With or without heart trouble , Shelby was n't a man to settle for a dull life . |
| 5 | Fearful that the widower will take his life , she rushes back to London , to a man grieving for a woman who once said to him : ‘ do n't be silly , there 's no hurry , we 've all our lives . ’ |
| 6 | The brother of a man jailed for seven years in Baghdad has offered to keep him company , or even change places . |
| 7 | Father Reynard was a man striving for sanctity , though he sensed the priest was hiding something , as if he wanted him out of the house before Corbett noticed anything amiss . |
| 8 | Now that 's a man to die for ! ’ |
| 9 | A woman of Daisy 's age would hardly expect to have a man invited for her , Sophia decided . |
| 10 | Forsyth is a top-selling and stylish author — decidedly not a purveyor of great literature , but a man writing for men , with thrills guaranteed . |
| 11 | Professor Norman Collies was a man noted for his logical mind . |
| 12 | I thought of the luxury we were enjoying ; our comfortable beds , baths , and motor cars , and then I recalled the ancient custom of giving a man selected for the sacrifice a royal time of it before the appointed day . |
| 13 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 14 | A giant of a man made for Thiercelin , but tripped over a fallen comrade and crashed to the floor . |
| 15 | In the Kandyan Kingdom a man convicted for assault could be handed over to the complainant to be beaten , and thefts were often resolved by the return of the stolen property , plus further compensation . |
| 16 | They forgot about Tavett and moved on to discuss Pascoe and how , when they came to think of it , he had looked very like a man waiting for a major heart attack . |
| 17 | He looked like a man waiting for something . |
| 18 | He saw a man crying for help with his face burned off , had to crawl over the dead and injured to reach the flames and brought out six bodies , including a child . |
| 19 | Lewis referred to him as ‘ a man martyred for his belief in the destiny of his country , a man whose worst fault was that his courage outran his prudence ’ . |
| 20 | Strangely , for a man fighting for sport 's most brutal crown , Bowe finds himself apologising for his obvious lack of aggression in the countdown to his day of destiny . |
| 21 | Just before my time down there , if a man reported for work with a dirty collar or something like that you were sent home . |
| 22 | The priests of the old deities had emerged from the desert or from hiding in neglected provincial cities in Shemau and To-mehu , and established themselves again , without difficulty , the people grateful to have the old gods returned to them , who demanded no more than unquestioning duty , propitiation and sacrifice ; gods who did not require a man to think for himself ; gods who forgave sin if the price was right , and who guaranteed a good time in the Hereafter . |
| 23 | Then , with the air of a man asking for twenty cigarettes , he said , ‘ I need 10 or 15 grams of thallium . |
| 24 | He 's missing from the England team tomorrow of course but Gloucester will have a man playing for the Calcutta Cup … as skipper Ian Smith runs out with Scotland for the first time |
| 25 | Police have issued an artist 's impression of a man wanted for two attacks on women in Oxford . |
| 26 | A happy , approachable Oliver Stone is a new phenomenon indeed — he is no a man known for his relaxed attitude on set , and the actors in Platoon especially were pushed to the limit . |
| 27 | A MAN quizzed for 60 hours by detectives hunting Rachel Nickell 's killer was finally charged with flashing . |
| 28 | A woman wanting to work in construction will find it difficult to enter ‘ a man 's world ’ , and most employers will be taken aback to find a man attending for interview as a secretary or child-minder . |