Example sentences of "man ['s] [noun] [coord] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | They saw a man curiously like and curiously unlike himself ; like , in that he was no man 's man but his own , and what he pledged , he would perform ; unlike in his innocence , pride and primitive simplicity . |
| 2 | Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work . |
| 3 | As Cookson has noted , in this sense Christianity fitted man 's propensities and the revelation afforded by the Bible complemented man 's reason and his progressive moral inclinations . |
| 4 | There were tears on the old man 's face and his mouth was drawn up in a silent parody of a grin . |
| 5 | Touch a man 's property and his passions are immediately aroused . ’ |
| 6 | He recognizes this , and indicates the contradiction that must exist between a man 's ideals and his practice , or between his beliefs and his actions . |