Example sentences of "man [coord] his [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hope had sent for Burkett : when the man and his daughter arrived , he took them to a quiet corner of the yard . |
| 2 | Damn this man and his ability to force her into probing her own psyche more deeply than she 'd perhaps ever done before . |
| 3 | Way over there , a man and his boy walk a dog . |
| 4 | But the rabbi was a very kind man and his heart went out to the poor man . |
| 5 | Quickly , I told my mother everything , and we decided to run to the village to hide , before the blind man and his friends returned . |
| 6 | Like Gesner he had been a big handsome man and his costumes had been lavish and spectacular . |
| 7 | Therefore I believe that man and his God have evolved together over that immense period of time which started with the advent of earthly life , reaches right through to the present time and will continue onwards forever , or until there is no longer life on earth . |
| 8 | The young man and his sister went hunting in the wild woods , and the little tailor , whose inclination did not lie that way , stayed by the hearth and was merry with them in the evenings . |
| 9 | It is one of the most substantial ( 371 pages ) reconsiderations of the man and his music to have been published for some time and , although it is not easy reading , it is a stimulating book which opera producers in particular should keep handy . |
| 10 | The 20th century has seen Mozart 's reputation rise ever higher , with new scholarly publications appearing every year , and public appetite for information on the man and his music increasing all the time . |
| 11 | This man and his parents originated from the south of England . |
| 12 | The man behind the craze is currently touring the country in a one man and his puppets show . |
| 13 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 14 | The previous week the man and his wife had been found in bed , dead . |
| 15 | The man and his wife carried Susan into their dining room . |
| 16 | Everybody in the vale knew him ; everybody in Grasmere admired the independence which rejected the pittance and charity of parish relief ; the better-off folk spoke with tenderness of the rather thin but bonny children , so quietly obedient , and the man and his wife struggling … |
| 17 | An elderly man and his wife appeared at the other end of the bar . |
| 18 | A man and his wife positioned themselves in the middle of one of the tree-lined avenues and sang ballads to a harmonica . |
| 19 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |
| 20 | Louisa gasped with delight to see the man and his reflection travel together so fluently . |
| 21 | Sometimes a man and his woman say things they should not … ’ |
| 22 | I was returning along a path and , when passing an isolated croft , a man and his sheepdog emerged . |
| 23 | The cold pint at the Cluanie Inn was nectar and , as we polished it off , our man and his party arrived . |
| 24 | The reader 's relationship to Proust 's text switches from the closeness , produced by paraphrase and quotation , of listening to the text speaking for itself , to a more removed perspective from which de Man and his reader stand back from that text and speculate on a general rule about language . |
| 25 | Marcos supporters have asked the Supreme Court to reverse the ban , but Mrs Aquino , who ousted Mr Marcos in a ‘ people 's power ’ revolt in 1986 , said : ‘ The return of this man and his minions poses a greater threat to the democratic constitution he ironically invokes than denying him entry would tend to subvert the fundamental law . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He is an incredibly selfish man and his family has suffered because of it . ’ |
| 27 | A dying man and his family have won a temporary reprieve from eviction . |