Example sentences of "man 's [noun] [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence of the photographs , all the sordid aspects of the man 's life were rinsed away by the formalized prose . |
| 2 | The sixty-two year old man 's body was discovered just a short time after he went missing from his ward . |
| 3 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 4 | But his real reason was that he was blind ; he was crippled in a land where a man 's worth was judged mainly by his physical ability . |
| 5 | The men 's committee was waffling on twice a week and doing nothing ’ . |
| 6 | Even so , the carry from the men 's tee was considered particularly daunting , for it was also lower than at present , and even the new bank in front failed to ease the psychological effects of both hazard , distance and danger . |
| 7 | The largest sine ] " Occupational group among the fathers is indeed compositors ( 10 ) and these men 's daughters were doing exactly the same as their sons : following their father into a trade . |
| 8 | It came in the spring , when men 's minds were occupied more with the new wave of cattle-fever than with wars far overseas . |