Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] a man [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole town knew he was silent as the tomb , a man of deep thoughts , none of them revealed ; or possibly a man of no thoughts at all . |
| 2 | He was an outstanding veterinary surgeon , and obviously a man of enormous enterprise , daring courage and strong will . |
| 3 | At the wedding ceremony , when the usual problem of naming his father had arisen , John put ‘ Lawrence Tiller ( deceased ) ’ but his son was called Lawrence , was still alive and now a man of twenty-nine , working as general manager in the business . |
| 4 | The ARP warden , out of work since 1930 and now a man of standing with his steel helmet , army-style respirator and dangling whistle , banged on the door of number five pleading through the letterbox with its occupant . |
| 5 | There were demonstrators in monkey suits and even a man in a devil costume who served chilli to spectators . |
| 6 | ‘ Soon he will be a husband and then a man of family and all will be serious , ’ I said . |
| 7 | To begin with , de Gaulle himself was a different person , not just eighteen years older , rounder in form and , by most accounts , mellower in temperament but also a man with a past — the symbol of 1940 – 44 , the liberator of 1944 – 46 , the politician of Bayeux , and the leader of the RPF . |
| 8 | " Lover , father , husband , athlete , millionaire — but also a man of wide reading , of wide culture , John . |
| 9 | But then a man in a suit heads for the cool cabinet and picks out two bottles of champagne . |
| 10 | But then a man like him was in no need of miracles . |
| 11 | But then a man like Luke Denner knew that ! |