Example sentences of "[adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rising toll of unemployment was another alarming problem , involving as it naturally did the families and children of the unemployed man or woman as well . |
| 2 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 3 | AN UNEMPLOYED man of 24 was remanded in custody yesterday , charged with the body in the boot murder of accountant John Shippey . |
| 4 | ( Woman , not employed , married to unemployed man and caring for her blind mother ) ( Glendinning , 1992a ) |
| 5 | The ideal diet for a pregnant woman recommended by the Chief Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health included milk at a cost of 4/1d when the total allowance for the wife of an unemployed man was only 4/11d . |
| 6 | An unemployed man who caught pike out of season to feed his family has been given a conditional discharge by magistrates . |
| 7 | William Caldwell , ( 49 ) , an unemployed man of Edenvale Avenue , also in the village of Eden , was further charged in Belfast with attempting to kill his estranged wife , also by strangulation last Thursday . |
| 8 | AN unemployed man killed himself after his girlfriend moved back in with her husband , a Liverpool inquest was told . |
| 9 | AN UNEMPLOYED man was jailed for two years yesterday for a knife attack which left his victim 's life hanging in the balance . |
| 10 | somewhat morbidly correct ideas as to competition rendered the idea of the third premium man coming in first had much to do with it . |
| 11 | Am I not a peace-loving man ? ’ |
| 12 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 13 | Whilst paying lip service to the sporting values of the public schools , suburban man was busy with less physically and morally taxing forms of exercise . |
| 14 | People with new money spread out into the newly-built suburbs where the houses , like the cars , had got longer and lower and were dignified with the name ‘ ranch-style ’ as though there were unspoilt acres in which to roam outside , rather than the swallowing of land in highways , parkways , expressways and cloverleaf intersections to enable suburban man to reach what was once a rural neighbourhood . |
| 15 | The object of suburban man was to move onward and upward to a better suburb . |
| 16 | There was the Worm , apotheosis of the suburban man for whom Gubbins wrote . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't stand possessive man , ’ she said suddenly , ‘ men who wo n't let go of me , let me be myself , let me be free . |
| 18 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 19 | He said she 'd been raped at 18 by a Lebanese man in London . |
| 20 | At that moment the French captain of the Avignon , a stocky , spade-bearded man , appeared beside them smiling and holding a pith helmet in his hands . |
| 21 | And others she did n't recognize : a young woman from over the sea , sometimes dressed in a nun 's habit , sometimes holding a clear-handled gun ; a foreign man , dark-complexioned and dangerous , his hands red with blood ; a beautiful young-old man with generous lips , picking up a guitar and smiling ; and a man in a tropical suit , with a deathshead skull behind his smile . |
| 22 | Sometimes I think my husband is a driven man . ’ |
| 23 | Nathan Cohen was necessarily a quiet and reflective man , 19 years older than his wife . |
| 24 | I had the impression of a cautious , reflective man , who would take his work seriously and perform what was required of him to the best of his ability . |
| 25 | Staunch man . |
| 26 | Bazarov is an idealist and a brave man , and his aims are rational . |
| 27 | The replies were versions of , ‘ He is a brave man for talking out about corruption , but he is too unstable to make a leader , ’ and ‘ We village people are all stupid , we know that , but we do n't want another war . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ But you 're a brave man , Michael . |
| 29 | He was a charming man , and a brave man ( his decision to lower the wall of security between himself and the voters must have encouraged his assassins ) . |
| 30 | Eventually Dot asked , ‘ Was he a brave man ? ’ |