Example sentences of "man ['s] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Isle of Man 's Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr David Cannan , was dismissed yesterday in the Manx government 's first ever Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 2 | Last month he starred as the poor man 's hero in the film Robin Hood and now he 's playing a wealthy land agent in Granada TV 's new series , The Real Charlotte , which starts next Monday . |
| 3 | He would hand over the old man 's baccy for the week and a few sweeties then , after a bit of chat , he was away . ’ |
| 4 | From the forbidden dry valley I followed the path to Seaty Hill , a Bronze Age tumulus standing close to the point at which Mastiles Lane joins the main tarmac road and an indication of the deep roots of man 's existence in the Dales . |
| 5 | Wind it up and watch it shoot up like a dirty old man 's dick at the sight of a Madonna book . |
| 6 | Howard almost laughs aloud at the young man 's distaste for the prospect . |
| 7 | The opposite case , where the departure from the norm is in the direction of sentence complexity rather than simplicity , is illustrated in Hemingway 's The Old Man and the Sea : the culmination of the Old Man 's battle with the fish is related in ( for Hemingway ) unusually complex sentences , conveying a climactic frenzy of movement against the background of Hemingway 's more usual simplicity of style . |
| 8 | Canon J Stafford Wright , an evangelical scholar and former principal of Tyndale College , Bristol , believes that the psychic might be man 's link with the rest of the animal world . |
| 9 | Meanwhile she decided to hold Spittals at bay by investigating the dead man 's link with the Polish community in London . |
| 10 | Some time ago , Matza and Sykes ( 1961 ) suggested that this is because among ‘ respectable ’ people criminal motivations exist at the ‘ subterranean ’ level and only surface on special , licensing situations such as the business man 's night on the town , carnivals , office parties , student rags , and so on . |
| 11 | Now the cubit ( traditionally the length of a man 's forearm from the elbow to clenched fist ) is the principal unit of linear measurement in the Bible , and was used too in Egypt and Mesopotamia . |
| 12 | On the other hand , there was something unbeatably creepy about the time I walked into a man 's bathroom at the very beginning of an affair and saw a bottle of ‘ scruffing lotion ’ by his basin . |
| 13 | The beauty of the flower is transcendent , and it has been a part of man 's heritage since the beginning . |
| 14 | We might , while comparing de Man 's absolutism to Jakobson 's relational categories , add that there is no sign of a distinction at all in de Man 's work between the poetic and the metalingual function . |
| 15 | At eight o'clock tonight , Central viewers will be able to see a unique programme listing the effects of man 's interference with the environment . |
| 16 | We were half-way through when I heard a sound that filled my heart with fear ; the tap-tapping of the blind man 's stick on the frozen road . |
| 17 | Joe slipped on the snowy slope as he neared him , and when his hand touched the man 's chin above the collar of his rough jacket and felt the sticky wetness on his fingers , he sprang up as if he had been stung by a hornet . |
| 18 | It was one of those golden autumn afternoons and there were blackberries and splashes of old man 's beard in the hedges , and the hawthorn berries were ripening scarlet for the birds when the cold winter came along . |
| 19 | They had found the man 's wallet in the pocket of his jacket with forty pounds in notes , a credit card , and a driving licence in the name of Francis Garland . |
| 20 | Suddenly there was a man 's voice at the front door . |
| 21 | But he did not open the door , because just then he heard a man 's voice in the room ! |
| 22 | Why could a man 's voice in the night create an ache in a person so deep and so wide that it felt as if it could never be filled ? |
| 23 | A man 's voice from the doorway made her turn . |
| 24 | ‘ The man 's presence in the aircraft is a matter for the airline which has sole responsibility under the Government 's national aviation security programme . ’ |
| 25 | When I answer this in the affirmative , I am aware that a man 's marriage with the woman of his choice is in one sense a boon , and in that sense the reverse of a loss ; yet , as between the plaintiff and the party promising an income to support the marriage , it may be a loss . |
| 26 | The luck of Lyle 's caddie in picking the right year David Davies does a round of golf 's library and rejoices in one man 's rub of the green . |
| 27 | Instead of waiting for a slot on national TV , the police could have already put this man 's name into the public domain . |
| 28 | Joan drew near and took the dead man 's child by the hands , and kissed her . |
| 29 | Indeed this selection of propositions reads like a summary of what is generally taken to be de Man 's contribution to the theory of language . |
| 30 | In recent years the study of megalithic remains such as Stonehenge in terms of hypothetical astronomical alignments has led to various interesting speculations concerning prehistoric man 's knowledge of the calendar . |