Example sentences of "man [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really prefer the idea of an older man or even a bedridden man — even a person totally incapacitated — because at least when you bought him a watch you 'd know you 'd be wearing it in a week or two yourself . |
| 2 | Perhaps I fell in love with him then , she thought ; when I discovered that he was a man and not a shining hero . |
| 3 | Owen was , he was aware , a hired man and not a member of the charmed social circle and if he wanted to get things done he had to do it indirectly by tweaking the inner social system . |
| 4 | She 's looking for a young man and possibly a young woman . |
| 5 | He remembered him as a kindly man but not a very lively one . |
| 6 | Havelock Wilson later paid tribute to Butcher , " a kind of silent man but nevertheless a thinker … who could put up a fight all the same " . |
| 7 | A recruit of eighteen years old was unthinkable ; he would become a puissant man but only a runt among his superhuman peers . |