Example sentences of "man [unc] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Danakil did not hunt and the Abyssinians , who had wiped out most of the game elsewhere , were afraid to venture into their country , since among the Danakil a man 's standing depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated . |
| 2 | The man 's gaze went to the screamer , wavered , then returned to Jude . |
| 3 | This experienced man 's disquiet stemmed from the fact that the taking of a statutory sample , while visible in the organization , is ( as he saw it ) a potentially inefficient use of an officer 's time , and the pressure to take a formal sample to show up well in the league tables placed an improper constraint on the discretion necessary to do the job efficiently . |
| 4 | ‘ Representative processes , ’ says Hallowell , ‘ are at the root of Man 's capacity to deal with the abstract qualities of objects and events , his ability to deal with the possible or conceivable , the ideal as well as the actual , the intangible along with the tangible , the absent as well as the present object or event , with fantasy and with reality . |
| 5 | In an epistemological parable , ‘ The Man who looked into the Future ’ , Allen Wheelis describes a man 's attempts to escape from the fluidity of the present and imprint value on his life . |
| 6 | As the man 's footsteps receded down the corridor , all traces of humour left Hayman 's face . |
| 7 | We sang for twenty minutes , the songs loud and impressive in the high-roofed hall , each man 's voice resounding with the alcohol and the nostalgia of Christmas . |
| 8 | She broke off as a man 's voice called from the staircase : ‘ What 's all this dam ’ talking ? |
| 9 | He had almost decided to hang up when a man 's voice came on the line , sounding muzzy and oddly worried . |
| 10 | The man 's voice came in an intimate whisper . |
| 11 | The man 's voice boomed in the small room , would be heard down the corridor in the outer office where Carol lorded it over her clerical assistants . |
| 12 | Luckily , our man 's name began with a B or I would have been there all night . ’ |
| 13 | Became a man and woman locked in an embrace that was , some said , unnatural ; the man 's head buried between the woman 's legs , the woman 's head between the man 's |
| 14 | shot upwards and a man 's head smashed on the steel girder . |
| 15 | Unable to restrain the anger that welled up within him , Richmann swung his cut-down Winchester round and , with an animal roar , blew the man 's head open like a dropped melon . |
| 16 | In the back kitchen of The Hangman 's Arms , Milcom Moloch , a young man 's dream stood over the frying pan . |
| 17 | The man 's cousin sat in the Lords with the Bishop . |
| 18 | Norris : the poor man 's Schwarzenegger goes to the rich man 's convention |
| 19 | Conversely , a man 's wish to care for an elderly relative might conflict with the expectation that he should go out to work . |
| 20 | The small man 's shoulders lifted in a slight shrug . |
| 21 | Later on they had seen the coypu man 's van parked on the front driveway of one of those houses . |
| 22 | The young man 's solicitor explained to the court how badly he was hurt in the accident . |
| 23 | Suddenly , the man 's arm shot through the tunnel shaped aperture in the glass screen of the cash desk like a striking cobra . |
| 24 | A cloud far smaller than a man 's hand peeped over the horizon as March began . |
| 25 | The teacher 's widow continued to deny that her husband had had sex with his killer 's 15-year-old daughter , and the dead man 's brother spoke of the ‘ fantasies ’ of the teenage schoolgirl . |
| 26 | The old man 's eyes shone with a mad light . |
| 27 | In desperation he tried heathen Trob , and the little man 's face split into a delighted grin . |
| 28 | ‘ Four years from now , yes , by then … ’ the old man 's face broke into a grin . |
| 29 | The old man 's face wrinkled into a grin . |
| 30 | Vic hoots impatiently at the barrier ; the security man 's face appears at the window and flashes an ingratiating smile . |