Example sentences of "man and woman [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 What they lacked was Mr Pozsgay 's eloquence , access to the media and the ability to relate these lofty ideas to the man and woman in the street .
2 The man and woman in the Garden were not free from God 's demands .
3 A man and woman in the car died as it was crushed under the lorry .
4 It is estimated that up to one million Americans invested in shares — from millionaires to the ordinary man and woman in the street .
5 The Commission is outside a sensible structure of democratic accountability and has shown a tendency to impose a Euro-synthesis at micro-level — silly proposals for the nooks and crannies of our life that antagonise the man and woman in the street .
6 Since those heady early days of privatisation , the world of high finance has become far more accessible to the ordinary man and woman in the street .
7 Perhaps , but Sibylle — who admits that she positively enjoyed much of her time in the Hitler Youth — believes that the ordinary man and woman in the street was n't by inclination a resistance fighter .
8 We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country .
9 In the Israeli-occupied West Bank yesterday Palestinian gunmen shot and wounded an Israeli man and woman near the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba .
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