Example sentences of "man 's [noun] [verb] [prep] the " 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 boomed in the small room , would be heard down the corridor in the outer office where Carol lorded it over her clerical assistants . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | shot upwards and a man 's head smashed on the steel girder . |
| 13 | In the back kitchen of The Hangman 's Arms , Milcom Moloch , a young man 's dream stood over the frying pan . |
| 14 | The man 's cousin sat in the Lords with the Bishop . |
| 15 | Norris : the poor man 's Schwarzenegger goes to the rich man 's convention |
| 16 | Later on they had seen the coypu man 's van parked on the front driveway of one of those houses . |
| 17 | The young man 's solicitor explained to the court how badly he was hurt in the accident . |
| 18 | Suddenly , the man 's arm shot through the tunnel shaped aperture in the glass screen of the cash desk like a striking cobra . |
| 19 | A cloud far smaller than a man 's hand peeped over the horizon as March began . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Vic hoots impatiently at the barrier ; the security man 's face appears at the window and flashes an ingratiating smile . |
| 22 | The man 's trousers snag on the stone and start to come down again , then the branch holding the grating shifts and the iron grid falls down , thumping into the man 's chest . |
| 23 | man 's drill screams through the window-frame , |
| 24 | In their time there was a general recognition of an ultimately important spiritual dimension to life that is lacking in our own — a sense of the universe given meaning by God so that man 's words interpenetrate with the Word , that whole transcendent meaning so fragmented and distorted by the Fall . |
| 25 | Man 's desire to fly like the birds had existed for hundreds of years but with the advent of the internal combustion engine , the chances of achieving some sort of flight appeared to be improved . |
| 26 | He heard the command , he heard the men 's feet slither in the snow as they pulled . |
| 27 | Jim Courier , of the United States , beat Holland 's Richard Krajicek to win the men 's singles title at the Japan Open in Tokyo yesterday . |
| 28 | The success of these Australian guerrilla companies , with their high standard of individual field craft , their sound leadership deploying platoons with forethought for their mobility , and above all the men 's ability to live off the country while fighting a war of high mobility , had made their campaign in Timor one of the most important of small force operations in World War II . |
| 29 | In the third tribe , the women looked after all the children together and the men 's lives revolved around the women who did all the trading and decision-making , the boys would join the men who were very artistic and gentle , when they were of age , while the girls were encouraged to be competitive and strong . |
| 30 | Hampshire captured its first ever county title when its men 's team triumphed at the recent LTA Winter Indoor County Closed Championships at Telford . |