Example sentences of "man [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposite , left to right : Man City away strip by Umbro ditches last year 's maroon for papal purple ; Norwich home shirt by Ribero makes a cardinal style error — flecking ; Man Utd away design by Umbro with peculiar charcoal-effect pattern and torso-sized emblem |
| 2 | Last year was abysmal , we conceeded so many goals because the defence could n't cope most notable occasion was Man City away where 2 of their 4 goals came from shite defending ie defenders unable to pass back to the goalie who would then pick it up . |
| 3 | Subject : Can we turn Man City over ? |
| 4 | Subject : Re : Can we turn Man City over ? |
| 5 | Sylvia watched the younger , more arrogant , man stand up to unbutton his breeches . |
| 6 | I forgave you for being a man ages ago but , generally speaking , the male sex is … ’ |
| 7 | Cos see , see your man Gary down there , |
| 8 | Okay try try it this way with the man hours anyway . |
| 9 | A spokesman said : ‘ During the course of the nesting season we have been paying out up to £2,000 a week in man hours just to patrol the lines and remove nests . |
| 10 | E Company of the London Irish Rifles was standing-to in Close Order — bayonets fixed and gasmasks on , every officer and man stock still to attention , silent as grotesque dummies in Madame Tussaud 's . |
| 11 | With this man words truly were unnecessary . |
| 12 | This man Gennaro obviously has a lot of influence even among the less desirable characters in this city , or at least in this part of it . |
| 13 | So Harrison had lost the first fall unfairly : in the second he had twisted his man feet up and then let him crash to the ground . |
| 14 | Schmeichel excelled himself as Torpedo 's blond danger man Talalayev suddenly found himself 14 yards from goal but his cannon shot was miraculously pushed away by the goalkeeper . |
| 15 | Softness and this man Vass definitely did not go together ! |
| 16 | And that small , dark young man Simon Westward , who was seen from time to time around Knockglen , he was Eve 's first cousin . |
| 17 | Clough , who has not replaced England star Des Walker following his £1.5 million move to Italian club Sampdoria in the summer , has drafted in 21-year-old midfield man Keane instead . |
| 18 | One of the most respected of our club members , on our committee of management , Pavel Pavlovich Gaganov , an elderly man ad highly esteemed , had formed the innocent habit of following anything he had to say with the vehement addition , ‘ No , sir , you ca n't lead me by the nose ! ’ |
| 19 | I should put it to the old man right away . " |
| 20 | One moment Harvey sounds like she 's trapped in a particularly unpleasant psychodrama , the next she 's singing an exuberant snatch of I 'm Gon na Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair . |
| 21 | " I 'm going to wash that man right out of my hair . " |
| 22 | when you multiply that one by that one , it 's got to come to a hundred and twenty man days again . |
| 23 | He had never heard a grown man cry before . |
| 24 | At first she could n't believe it ; she had never seen a man cry before . |
| 25 | My father worked the sideshow circuit with the man years back . |
| 26 | They won despite having Leonard Ford sent off after only ten minutes and , as in the case of the football final replay a fourteen man team once again defied the odds . |
| 27 | ‘ So you need to interview this man Kennedy urgently ? ’ |
| 28 | It used to belong to a man name up here . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't mind my man Dowd here , will you ? |
| 30 | I 'd hoped to get the poor man writing again . |