Example sentences of "man [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a fabliau called La Saineresse , " The female blood-letter " , for instance , the deceptive actions performed by the deceiving character are actions entirely of speech , as a wife who has had sexual intercourse with a man her dull-witted husband believes to be a female blood-letter describes her act of illicit fornication to her duped and satisfied husband entirely in metaphors : ( Sir , thank you by the love of God , I have indeed been in hard labour . |
| 2 | The ultimate outcome of this is , that without any exception whatsoever and despite all so-called ‘ revelation ’ , all religious writings have been produced entirely by man himself countless millenniums after the advent of life on earth . |
| 3 | Tomorrow night 's South Bank Show will profile the great man himself 30 years after his death . |
| 4 | Shaking hands , accepting the odd bear-hug , encouraging the vote , the man who many Tories concede is Labour 's best asset was in safe territory . |
| 5 | The nervous man who 16 months ago called for ‘ a country at ease with itself ’ seemed at last to have achieved that ease in his own mind . |
| 6 | The Balts , he argued , should take 100 small steps to independence , not ten big ones — odd advice from the man who quick-marched Germany to unity . |
| 7 | We must also consider the collectivist man who first burst upon the world with the French Revolution . |
| 8 | Not bad for a man who 10 years ago was virtually unheard of . |
| 9 | There was the Bishop of Limerick defending the Easter Rising , a man who thirty years before had been speaking out against resistance to civil authority . |
| 10 | He 's also the man who last March upbraided BR for its argument that ten minutes either way was ‘ on time . ’ |
| 11 | It may also be the same man who last month raped a mother who was pushing a pram at Tarrant , Hants . |
| 12 | ALAN SHEARER was last night hailed as a £10 million wonder — by the man who this afternoon must stop him leading Blackburn 's title crusade . |
| 13 | One bright young man who some years before had been a ‘ star ’ pupil , and assured of a successful career in technology said he had ruined his chances by joining the demonstrations . |
| 14 | Mr Wormwood was a small ratty-looking man whose front teeth stuck out underneath a thin ratty moustache . |
| 15 | They showed a young man whose swollen back was a mass of cigarette burns and bruises . |
| 16 | It was increasingly difficult to appeal to the working man whose vote might put the party back into power without antagonizing the wealthy man whose financial assistance was crucial . |
| 17 | He was a man whose personal life , though occasionally exigent , never became a siren song . |
| 18 | MR JEREMY Beadle is a law-abiding family man whose personal habits are beyond reproach . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't go to pubs any more , ’ says the man whose well-publicised scrapes on the road to better behaviour meant that the journey from the penalty box to the witness box was not unfamiliar . |
| 20 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 21 | The Cement Garden , by contrast , seems entirely professional in its execution , the work of a young man whose private demons , however unruly , have been successfully harnessed to a career . |
| 22 | Like many religious folk who have gone into politics , he seems to be two people , a man whose private persona is bafflingly at odds with his public . |
| 23 | That somebody else was Stanley Kubrick , the young director Kirk had worked with a couple of years earlier on Paths of Glory and a man whose greatest success ( 2001 : A Space Odyssey ) and biggest disaster ( Barry Lyndon ) were the result of his mammoth ego . |
| 24 | The traveller , we now discover , is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach . |
| 25 | The ability to predict where hostilities were likely to occur , in what countries , under whose jurisdiction , was paramount to a man whose professional abilities lay in being a practising soldier . |
| 26 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 27 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 28 | A man whose late father was a subscriber sent me the Electrophone programme for the month of May 1924 . |
| 29 | This , for a man whose entire working life had been devoted to making it big in the movies , came as a depressing , frustrating fact as he surveyed his position that year . |
| 30 | Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill . |