Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] man " in BNC.

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1 No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man .
2 AFTER eight years as The Times man in the north of England , Peter Davenport has left ‘ The Thunderer ’ to become a partner in the expanding Harrogate public relations , design and contract publishing company Paul Sowerby Associates .
3 I do n't know what you said to The Times man , but when I opened the paper in bed ( at mea mos est ) wondering whether my letter would find a place at all-well I dived under the bed clothes and went pink all over-as pink as you !
4 The personnel man has seven awards or competence certificates and two fulsome farewell parchments framed on the walls of his office .
5 65th minute : Ian Wright emerged from an innocuous challenge with Howells and clouted the Spurs man .
6 All through the ages men have had names which recognised their prowess at arms or through some physical attribute .
7 The CADS men 's epeeists were best placed team of the competition .
8 I 'm busting at the legs man .
9 Hence the words man , mankind , humanity have come to be treated as interchangeable synonyms .
10 It may influence lipid levels and introduce all the risks men have , such as heart attacks , which makes it , by and large , unacceptable as a treatment for low libido . ’
11 But we also want to emphasise that neither the experiences men have nor their ideas about masculinity have remained constant .
12 In the circumstances men turned to negotiation .
13 All was fine , until the Customs man stopped me at Heathrow Airport .
14 ‘ Are you crew ? ’ asked the Customs man .
15 Madeleine struggled forward with her bags that the Customs man had marked with a chalk sign , into their cheek-to-cheek embraces .
16 My Belfast — Dublin train soon came in , but no passengers were allowed to board it until the customs men had searched the carriages for contraband .
17 And why the Customs men anyway , and what on earth did they hope to find … ?
18 I glanced at Ewen , relaxed once more in his chair , as the door opened and one of the Customs men came in .
19 The Customs men knew it .
20 The Customs men had believed she was a drug-smuggler ; Nathan had assumed she had virtually jumped out of Giles 's bed and into Clive 's .
21 That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men .
22 The Customs men gave me a cup of coffee , mopped up my tears and — ’
23 But later , as she listened to the English accents of the Customs men , her feeling of anti-climax evaporated a little .
24 The sports man or woman simply walks to the top of a hill , carrying a special mountain skateboard , and when at the top climbs on the board for a thrill-of-a-lifetime journey down the hill .
25 For the plants man sows also depend upon microbes within the soil for their growth and existence .
26 Perhaps it represents not a past concrete social reality as it actually existed , but rather the ideas men who lived then had about their responsibilities and claims , their liabilities and privileges and freedom .
27 The scene-of-crimes man stumbled as one of his feet went into a rabbit hole .
28 But with far fewer deals being done than was the case , say , five years ago , what now for the red-braces man ?
29 " It almost looks as though they were just going through the cupboards , examining the stuff , as it were , the plainclothes man said .
30 The crowds in turn shouted ‘ no violence ! ’ and put their hands above their heads , as if daring the Volkspolizei , the people 's police , and the plainclothes men , the Stasis , to beat them .
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