Example sentences of "man [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if you as a widow subsequently ‘ live with a man as his wife ’ , you can lose your entitlement to the widow 's pension without benefit of marriage lines ! |
| 2 | Wordsworth thought he could learn from them ; he regarded no man as his inferior . |
| 3 | The core of Barth 's theology is not that God is in principle unknowable , nor yet that man is an arrogant sinner who , left to himself , will ever be about the business of fashioning golden calves to worship , but that God has crossed the infinite gulf in Jesus Christ to claim man as his friend and partner . |
| 4 | Widows who remarry , or live with a man as his wife , cease to receive widows ' pension unless , that is , they are aged 60 or over in which case they may continue to receive their pension . |
| 5 | The question is — what would his conduct indicate to a reasonable man as his mental state . ’ |
| 6 | Vuk Karadžić continued the work of Dositej , whose writings had influenced the younger man during his formative years . |
| 7 | This has made him a rather accommodating man for his ex-enemies to deal with . |
| 8 | He allows that , despite his claiming to have no consciousness of them , a court may punish a man for his drunken actions , but this is only because it can not be sure of distinguishing in the defendant 's plea ‘ what is real , what counterfeit ’ . |
| 9 | Modern architects were to take a savage and unimaginable revenge on the average man for his rejection of their ‘ we know best ’ anti-humanist ethic . |
| 10 | GREATER love hath no man for his three small grandsons than a 71-year-old friend of ours who sat in his car all night outside a Cardiff toy store to make sure he was first in line for a much-wanted Thunderbirds Tracy Island from Santa . |
| 11 | Gough is the best man for his job and both full backs , Dave McPherson and David Robertson , are pacy and good in the air . |
| 12 | It was Batuan who explained that , although only the Gods can own land , they can lend it to man for his temporary use . |
| 13 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 14 | My motive is owing to no dislike I have for him but methinks it would reflect a little upon my Pamela if she had married a man for his estate when she had rather have had another . |
| 15 | The silly sheep , the witless pheasants , the dumb cows bred by man for his own purposes had lost all joy and definition , needing to be doused , medicated , imprisoned and fed until , poor bourgeois , they were ready to be killed . |
| 16 | Blanche thanked the man for his help and he loped off down the corridor , jangling his keys . |
| 17 | Lawler was anchor man for his K1 semi final and Andy Train could only manage 7th in C1 . |
| 18 | On returning to Valparaiso on 11 March 1819 , he obtained no credence — ‘ all ridiculed the poor man for his fanciful credulity and his deceptive vision . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You were marrying a rich old man for his money and rejecting the crippled boy who had been your sweetheart since childhood , and whose engagement ring you wore . |
| 20 | No man will publicly humiliate a woman because she is ‘ old ’ or he finds her sexually unattractive : no woman will deride a man for his sexual insufficiency or because he is ‘ weak ’ or ‘ wet ’ or a ‘ wimp ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ So you would n't consider marrying a man for his money , then ? |
| 22 | People were walking after it — a young man about his own age with blank , staring face , a sobbing woman supported by her husband , and a girl , whose expression , as she passed , startled him . |
| 23 | He was grabbed by a man about his own age who demanded cash . |
| 24 | She should have come over sooner , she should have spoken to Roy , but how did you ask a grown man about his home life ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sure , ’ said Blanche , launching into a genteel chat with the security man about his work and colleagues . |
| 26 | Ken , never the most modest man about his talents , finally declared himself mortally offended and after four episodes was out for ever . |
| 27 | Now we 're off to see a man about his dogs . |
| 28 | Because , when he 'd seen Olivier , just after 1945 , had n't he said there was a man after his own heart ? |
| 29 | THE New England Journal of Medicine tells a grim story in which seven people were infected with the Aids virus by a man after his death . |
| 30 | DUNDELA boss Mervyn Bell was n't a happy man after his side 's Bass Irish Cup defeat at the hands of Glentoran . |