Example sentences of "man [subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor 's parliamentary private secretary has resigned because he wants his say on Europe ; MP Tony Favell says he 's quit as John Major 's right-hand man so he can air his true views from the back benches . |
| 2 | Now since you are able night and day to see flowers and a flower garden — Love every man so you may always dwell among flowers . ’ |
| 3 | Even bent and old like I am , I 'm a better man than you 'll ever be . |
| 4 | Much cleverer man than you would imagine by that livid green ’ — and then she would sail on , followed by Constance who , because she had rather liked the green , never forgot the name . |
| 5 | He 's cool , articulate and a slighter man than you might expect , a tennis player in a town of Schwarzeneggers . |
| 6 | ‘ I would be a rich man if I could . |
| 7 | Your Dr Rafaelo must be a very important man if he can promise you that . ’ |
| 8 | Alf , my friend asked the man if he could mend the chain and within ten minutes it was done . |
| 9 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 10 | The Feldwebel drank his soup straight out of the bowl and baited the mousy man because he would n't do the same . |
| 11 | So er it was decided that he it would be one man because he would give a hand . |
| 12 | I 'm questioning this man because he might be able to help us . |
| 13 | He shot the girl and the bearded man before they could move . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's for despising your own life , fool , ’ he said calmly , ‘ Learn to kill like a reasoning man when you must , not like a woman crazed with spite . ’ |
| 15 | It may see a man as it would a stallion , and regard him as the Big Boss . |
| 16 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 17 | Now a man as I used to visit , older than me now , er the blacklegs used to be escorted with police to their homes like from this factory . |
| 18 | He would nod in reply , and I would creep away , sniggering at my tiny cruelty , pleased that I was not quite such a nice young man as he might have imagined . |