Example sentences of "up to a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is up to a man , ’ she said ‘ to make a marriage a source of peace or misery , because the man has power ; our women usually have none . ’ |
| 2 | But it would be desperately hard , in the Arab world , to stand up to a man who could portray himself as a ( literally ) world-defying champion of Palestinian rights . |
| 3 | No one would ever go up to a man and comment on what 's in his trousers ! |
| 4 | His heavy gold rings and his bomber jacket and his wide-foot stance had added up to a man of experience in my eyes . |
| 5 | want this , and it 's not up to a man to decide what happens . |
| 6 | Angy always played up to a man … any man . |