Example sentences of "[adj] man was " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | AN UNEMPLOYED man was jailed for two years yesterday for a knife attack which left his victim 's life hanging in the balance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The object of suburban man was to move onward and upward to a better suburb . |
| 5 | A 40-year-old man was admitted with right upper abdominal pain . |
| 6 | A 40-year-old man was airlifted to hospital from an Isle of Man-bound ferry after having a heart attack . |
| 7 | And in Halewood , Merseyside , a 40-year-old man was also taken to Whiston after being burned in Lower Lane , but he too escaped with just slight injuries . |
| 8 | Fifteen minutes and one Harley Davidson later , the funny man was dead funny . |
| 9 | Bernard Hill Joely Richardson and Sean Bean Manager Brian Duffield ( Danny Webb ) gets to grips with Johnny Lazar ( Tim Guinee ) in Comics Fifteen minutes and one Harley Davidson later , the funny man was dead funny . |
| 10 | In this sense , ‘ free ’ carried a load of genealogical history : a free man was one with an authentic Zuwaya ancestry . |
| 11 | He was not protected by the King 's court as a free man was , but most lords seem to have recognized that even unfree tenants had certain rights . |
| 12 | A short tubby man was waiting at the Font door in grey overalls , beaming . |
| 13 | The 51-year-old man was about to deposit cash in the Midland Bank in Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough , when he stopped his car in the bank 's back yard . |
| 14 | A SUICIDAL man was saved twice by two railway policemen yesterday . |
| 15 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 16 | There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers . |
| 17 | Of course primitive man was a sun worshipper . |
| 18 | Nathan felt uncomfortable about the way this man was looking at him . |
| 19 | This man was a real cultural snob who quite destroyed me . |
| 20 | Deeply afraid that this man was going to put me in a cage . |
| 21 | This man was stocky and wiry , like a short-legged terrier , his face was pale and drawn , with two vertical worry-lines scored into the brow above the nose , and the hank of dark , flat hair that fell forward across his brow had clearly never had the attention of an expert barber . |
| 22 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
| 23 | This man was not the average prawn boat captain . |
| 24 | This man was trying to retreat , but Fedorov would not let him . |
| 25 | It was a natural thing for them to do so I did n't take any action — told them in no uncertain terms that this man was ill and he eventually came to and everyone was happy then . |
| 26 | This man was even more splendid than Sammy , the page-boy at Gutermann 's , though he lacked Sammy 's braided uniform and turban . |
| 27 | The man who now approached Wavebreaker was as tall as Rickie Crowninshield , but , where Rickie was attenuated , this man was as broad shouldered and as heavily muscled as a pit bull . |
| 28 | Paul was taken downstairs , and shown the place where he was to work ; it was a dark room with a high office stool , and a second reader was busy at a similar one ; this man was sullen , for he was about to leave and Paul would take over his job . |
| 29 | He seemed reluctant to talk to her , but probably this man was aircrew , too . |
| 30 | Truly this man was the Son of God ( Mark 15:39 ; Matt. |