Example sentences of "man [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when man aspires above his station and wants to be like God does he fall to a lowlier position in which all his relationships are soured . |
| 2 | The control of fire is the mark of the civilization man aspires to , but constitutes a kind of sacrilege , a " robbery of divine nature " , that must be paid for with immense suffering : human aspiration must inevitably bring man into conflict with the divine realm . |
| 3 | This treatise , however , is designed to clarify the process by which man turns from death to life and finds " all he has " , Jesus . |
| 4 | Sin and sex do somehow go together and this seems to tie in with the distinction I made much earlier on between the scientific view that man differs from other animals only in degree and the religious view that there is an essential difference in kind . |
| 5 | Man belongs to the primates , which also includes monkeys of various kinds and the apes . |
| 6 | The first was the importance of man 's biological base , that is , that man belongs to a species which has to survive in a material environment , and that he has certain innate drives or instincts which affect his behaviour , although they do not determine it . |
| 7 | This man belongs to the category of long-term unemployed . |
| 8 | THE VANISHING ( 15 ) A MAN drives into a petrol station with his girlfriend . |
| 9 | A MAN drives into a petrol station with his girlfriend . |
| 10 | This man plays in a performance art band whose antics include forcibly kidnapping members of the audience , tying them to chairs and emptying entire trashcans full of fake vomit over their heads . |
| 11 | It is what the common man understands by " inefficiency " . |
| 12 | Sitting on the tube a largish , overweight man sits under a sign reading ‘ Give up this seat to someone less able to stand than yourself . ’ |
| 13 | A man sits beside her . |
| 14 | It is the scent of sweet basil , and it is coming from the far end of the market where a solitary wrinkled old man sits on an upturned basket , scores and scores of basil plants ringed all around him like a protective hedge . |
| 15 | The lamp rests on the manuscript so that enough light will fall on the corner of the sofa in which the man sits in the evening to read his paper . |
| 16 | A man sits in his car at the traffic-lights , waiting for them to go green . |
| 17 | we have , you 've got to make a model , yeah and that 's mine , you have to get two men and two children across the river , you 've got one and they ca n't swim , this is my one , two boys go across , one boy comes back , one man goes across , the other boy comes back , two boys go across , one boy comes back , one man goes across the other boy comes back two boys go across , I need to show that on , on . |
| 18 | we have , you 've got to make a model , yeah and that 's mine , you have to get two men and two children across the river , you 've got one and they ca n't swim , this is my one , two boys go across , one boy comes back , one man goes across , the other boy comes back , two boys go across , one boy comes back , one man goes across the other boy comes back two boys go across , I need to show that on , on . |
| 19 | the man goes across that boy comes back |
| 20 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
| 21 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
| 22 | Back the man goes across the comes back |
| 23 | And then the man goes with his flag . |
| 24 | FORMER ASHTON-TATE MAN GOES TO CREATIVE LABS |
| 25 | When a man goes to work , he might be only making things , but at least they 're different things … |
| 26 | When the man goes to a club , the hearer assumes that the ‘ club ’ is in the same town , that the man has not caught an aeroplane and flown to Las Vegas . |
| 27 | Not that I do n't like you , Simon , but you would think if the man goes to all this trouble to rescue me he could at least stay around afterwards . ’ |
| 28 | All right , there 's a fortune teller and the man goes to the fortune teller and the fortune teller goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes what ? and he goes he goes he goes he goes i he goes I ca n't tell you , this is , this is , this is awful ! |
| 29 | But , the man goes on number two . |
| 30 | In Yorkshire when man goes into a decline during his wife 's pregnancy they giggle behind their hands and say he is " carrying " the baby , I never laugh at these remarks because I am convinced I " carried " my son . |