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Example sentences of "man at his " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	No man at his age ever had a straighter back , that we were sure of , straight and strong , it was as the ground ash stick he always carried .
2	Man At His Best
3	Man at his Worst
4	The saving grace here was very much played down : that instead of being taxed , every man at his command had to muster armed under his chief .
5	Barbirolli 's famously self-indulgent late Debussy recordings , La Mer and the Nocturnes , really do n't show the great man at his best , though there is no denying the conviction and enormous affection which sir John brings to these pieces .
6	Indeed , in 1973 he told Bertie Whiting , a close friend and best man at his wedding to his third and last wife Eletha , ‘ I 'm not going to live long . ’
7	‘ You 're asking the road you know , it 's been spelled out so many times : the rich man in his castle , the poor man at his gate .
8	‘ The customers were mostly Japanese and the girls sat in a damp back room waiting to be called to join a man at his table .
9	The smugness in his voice was here too , in the studied way he licked upper and lower lips with his tongue before he spoke , and tapped the fingertips of each hand together as he judged the broken man at his feet .
10	Man At His Best
11	‘ Man at his Best ’ , the ‘ Business Class ’
12	And he had dined the man at his favourite restaurant .
13	The appellant , having discovered that the man had a number of previous convictions for similar offences , equipped himself with a hammer and a quantity of weak sulphuric acid and sought out the man at his place of work on two occasions .
14	Moreover , since venereal disease was contracted by a man at his own risk he could not claim protection from the medical arm of the state .
15	The politics of deference — the rich man in his castle the poor man at his gate — held change in check .
16	The Bishop smiled encouragingly at Spruce in a kindly attempt to put the man at his ease .
17	It was all very well beating a man at his own game when she was standing free and able to lash out with her acid tongue .
18	No poker player will sit with a man at his back or show his hand , but nor will a poker player have a cocky attitude to the game .
19	I was the best man at his wedding .
20	It was four years ago that Billy Wright was Best Man at his cousin 's wedding and were he first met his future wife .
21	While Owen 's older brother , Ross Wyndham , had been abroad on business and unable to attend his brother 's engagement party , he had faithfully promised to be Owen 's best man at his wedding .
22	‘ Martin here — ’ he indicated the man at his side ‘ — is having a problem with one of his staff .
23	The crowd faded , and he turned his attention back to the unconscious man at his feet .
24	Mr Baughan is an example of an elderly and disabled man at his most vulnerable , but Age Concern believes they are not a group most at risk in Society .
25	But the man at his side throughout the campaign John Gorman , is the man making the headlines in Swindon today .
26	Four men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a man at his engagement party .
27	What with the flower sellers and the blind musician , the old man at his sewing machine , the two sisters selling maps of Delhi by the roadside and two others collecting camel dung for fuel the sights and sound if not the actual smell came flooding back , even though it 's 40 years since I was last there .
28	The rich man in his parlour , the poor man at his gate what a tidy , orderly world nostalgia makes it now seem .
29	There would not be a man at his table that night who did not eat more and drink deeper than he .
30	There 's this man I know and he 's that quick yeah , he 's he erm my uncle yeah , he 's at college and there 's this man at his college yeah and listen yeah because they 've got t v's and they 're allowed to stay up as long as they want .