Example sentences of "but [art] [noun sg] man " in BNC.

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1 But the cow man he wore his cap w with the peak over h er er the back of his head .
2 But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart .
3 Four years and two months ago or a few months but the gas man sort of found it dangerous .
4 Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 .
5 For a closer analysis shows that what is really being talked about in such propositions is not men or dragons , but the concept man and the concept dragon , and what is being said is that certain things fall under the former concept , whereas the latter concept is empty .
6 But the capital man , and
7 But the coypu man was different .
8 You know , I was told about the bogie man , but the bogie man , I now know , did n't , did n't , did n't , did n't exist .
9 The policeman radioed for help but the machete man was never found .
10 But the stab man , and the man on piecework rates … has got to do it , possibly spending more than half his time in trying to decipher it .
11 North wanted them taken on ‘ his ship ’ , the Erria , a Danish freighter , for which several starring roles were intended , but the DEA men were scathing : the Erria was ‘ a filthy boat , filthy … a potato boat ’ , and ‘ an old tub that could n't do 10 knots ’ .
12 And the gardener there was always a permanent gardener but he was he had enough to do but the estate men would be sent up to clear that .
13 She tried to stand up , but the chip man held her arm , pinning it to the seat rest .
14 Above all , ‘ Sandy ’ Thom was esteemed by his colleagues ; he was truly egregious but a kind man and a good skipper , whether of a yacht 's crew , a survey party , or a department .
15 Who then more logical to head our new government but a business man ?
16 That is an extreme case but a marketing man may subtly resist the plan to move from premium pricing to commodity pricing , or he may sabotage the plan to squeeze more profit out of old products rather than spend money on new ones .
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