Example sentences of "[coord] a man " in BNC.

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1 is a woman aged 60 or over , or a man aged 65 or over
2 ( For example , they might say that they have a woman deacon in their parish , or that they have chosen a woman — or a man — as their doctor . )
3 Or a man who meddled in the black arts ?
4 Not the sort of mistake you would expect from a mammal or a man .
5 ( This is not taxable if you are a man aged over 65 , a woman aged over 60 , or a man aged 60 or over who is entitled to the long-term scale rate of supplementary benefit ) ;
6 How dare he whip up strangers to hostility because I did n't wear clothes clearly indicating my sex — what was it to them whether I was a woman or a man ?
7 Do you want a man who perfectly fits your fantasy ( better cancel the church now ) , or a man you can love and live with ?
8 The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’
9 There was no sign of either an agent or a man watching or approaching the house .
10 Or a man who can not meet his bills ?
11 Or a man with her husband 's build parading down a Paris runway in Calvin Klein 's latest skivvies .
12 Unprotected anal intercourse , whether between two men or a man and a woman , is the highest risk activity .
13 He was always fine as a soldier or a man of action .
14 Like a foreigner or a man out of his social class , he [ the Rationalist ] is bewildered by a tradition and habit of behaviour of which he knows only the surface ; a butler or an observant house-maid has the advantage of him .
15 Is it Poseidon himself who beckons , or a man overboard ?
16 It logically follows from this that a fit person should need less sleep than an unfit one , or a man than a woman , or a grown-up than a child .
17 the divine lotus or a man with a lotus blossom on his head .
18 Other travellers thought he was half mad or a man who could not forget some terrible crime .
19 A hearing-impaired woman using a hearing aid or a man prescribed insulin to control diabetes are nevertheless ‘ disabled ’ .
20 At least he 's not a spotty adolescent or a man that smokes a pipe in bed or reads philosophy while you 're making love .
21 Owen had borrowed for the day some skilled police trackers , men who could follow a trail , or a man , even through the crowded streets of Cairo .
22 Yeah I would agree with that but I do n't think there is er any excuse for a woman to or a man for that matter to say women deserve rape says M P's wife .
23 It would have been with someone butch , a Guardsman or a man on a building site .
24 Though it was not only the bridge and its impressive Baroque sculptures that Fabia found so memorable , but incidentals such as seeing swans on the river , or the feel of Ven 's hand on her elbow guiding her , or standing with her while she watched artists at work , or a man playing a violin , and hearing a flute being played somewhere while a trinket-seller sold his wares .
25 Are we getting a lady or a man , do we know yet ?
26 I mean they were bright green , and I thought it was a different bike , I did n't even noticed the second time if it was a ladies or a man 's bike .
27 As Cameron turned back to the mill , he saw a small coach coming along the Grandtully road with a pair of deerhounds loping at its wheels and a man on horseback behind it dressed in an expensive tweed cloak .
28 A woman and a man were packing a hamper , blankets and Wellingtons into the car .
29 The major exception to these considerations is the vigorous Jacques Derrida , an admired figure in both the French and the American academic worlds , and a man whose dominance in contemporary critical theory is inescapable .
30 But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day .
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