Example sentences of "man [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the lubricant can be applied by the man during sexual foreplay , there will be an improvement in the sex act and the troublesome urinary symptoms will disappear as well . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not a man for fancy living and fancy women . |
| 3 | Equally sensational to experience is the twin guitar team of brother Rich Robinson and not so raw recruit Marc Ford , who was formerly axe man for Burning Tree and now replaces the ditched Jeff Cease . |
| 4 | In Saturday 's Weekend Extra you can meet the people with the wackiest jobs in Britain and comedian Ted Robbins the official warm-up man for top comedy shows . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's always said I 'm the perfect man for long- ball football , but I can play anywhere you want me to . |
| 6 | He seemed to her just the splendid , special kind of man for Brown Owl to marry . |
| 7 | Rutherford , after working from 1890 to 1930 on radioactivity , being universally recognized for his discoveries and awarded many prizes and honorary degrees , gave as his view , ‘ There is no appreciable energy available to man through atomic disintegration . ’ |
| 8 | And they say a decision to route an ambulance carrying a fatally wounded Catholic man through heavy morning traffic on the Queen 's Bridge was the correct one in the circumstances . |
| 9 | Finding a lone man amid open ocean is doubtful at the best of times , and we had just been through the densest fog bank either one of us had ever experienced . |
| 10 | Thirty years ago , a young man of Japanese business … |
| 11 | The Archdeacon was not a man of agile mind . |
| 12 | Those in authority had decided that Marcus should intermit a year of his education , in order to recuperate , and that he should not live with his father , a man of uncertain temper , of whom he had expressed extreme and unreasoning terror . |
| 13 | Michael Wittet will be remembered by many as a man of wide knowledge and active mind , of thoughtful care and concern , whether to friends and neighbours , colleagues and staff , or to fellow ex-prisoners of war . |
| 14 | " Lover , father , husband , athlete , millionaire — but also a man of wide reading , of wide culture , John . |
| 15 | When Thomas De Quincey visited Poole in 1807 , he found a ‘ stout plain-looking farmer ’ , and discovered only later that beyond the plain exterior , the proudly-maintained West Country accent , and the abrupt manner was a man of wide culture and fervently liberal viewpoint , and one who , like Coleridge himself , possessed a remarkable capacity for making friends . |
| 16 | When he succeeded to the English throne in 1272 Edward I was already in his thirties and a man of wide experience . |
| 17 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 18 | ‘ Donny ’ Renfrew was a man of deep spirituality who evangelised simply by being himself . |
| 19 | Even if I were a man of deep sensibility and tact — and it sounds pretty wimpish to me ! — I still needed a good night 's sleep . |
| 20 | The warden to whom he was sub-warden was Leslie Owen , a man of delicate health whom Ramsey liked . |
| 21 | ‘ He was ever a man of terrible rectitude , ’ said Owen dispassionately , half-closing his eyes to peer back into a past he hardly ever dwelt on now . |
| 22 | They were close up to the car when the brown-haired man of average build left his car and Ven Gajdusek halted to exchange a few words in Czech with him . |
| 23 | He was a burly man of average height , white-haired and distinguished looking . |
| 24 | But , unlike most of the other apostles of this sect among the French General Stat– , de Castelnau was a man of outstanding intellect , quick-witted and flexible . |
| 25 | The drawings show two creatures , one obviously a lion and the other an animal facing a man of muscular appearance ( fig. 14.30 ) . |
| 26 | Life itself added the boldest brush strokes and when , finally , he , Jack Nicholson in person , confronts the world , there is the most awesome feeling of encountering a man of unquestionable charm , intelligence and friendship , yet who possesses an indefinable menace that can only be compared with some of the roles he has acted . |
| 27 | Neither named Mr Kelbie but concerned a man of similar name who was listed as an possible health risk , the likely carrier of HIV and hepatitis B. |
| 28 | Mrs Alice James described a man of similar appearance who had rushed past her near Cross Street and she , accompanied by Mrs Lewington and Mrs Loxton , were escorted to Valpy Street to peruse the Criminal Records Office picture gallery . |
| 29 | ( Lazarus 's brother , Hirsch , was a man of similar energy and stature , who became the Chief Rabbi of Canada . |
| 30 | Like Erich Honecker , a man of similar vintage in East Germany , he spent his formative political years fighting for Communism against the Nazis . |