Example sentences of "to [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 2 | ‘ Tony , I do n't think you know Maggie , ’ he said to the man . |
| 3 | She turned and was relieved to see someone who bore absolutely no resemblance to the man she had described to Roger and Caroline . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you for coming so quickly , ’ I said to the man as I wrote a cheque . |
| 5 | The resulting article , part elegy for the lost carvings , part tribute to the man had transformed the English woodcarving tradition , was later published in |
| 6 | The novel itself foregoes many such touches which are n't quite true because they betray a teasing Svidrigailov-like zest , or , if you prefer , counterzest ; just as , on the secondary plane , Lebyadkin 's reply to the man who tells him to stop getting drunk is wonderfully funny but wrong . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the text could serve equally as a tribute to the man himself . |
| 9 | One resolution to the problem was for the other to submit to the one , the woman to the man , the weaker man to the stronger man . |
| 10 | In other words , to be metaphysically identified was simultaneously to be socially positioned — the subject in relation to the prince , the woman in relation to the man , and so on . |
| 11 | Moreover , Bridgeman justified his actions to Balfour in terms which Maxse would have approved , arguing that Balfour seemed to be ‘ surrounded by men who are not in touch with the mass of the Party ’ , complaining of ‘ the extraordinary difference in perspective which party questions assume inside the House from that presented by them to the man in the street ’ and voicing suspicions about the secrecy of Parliamentary procedures such as ‘ the pourparlers of the whips of both sides ’ . |
| 12 | You talk to the man you are buying it from and he really takes trouble over you . |
| 13 | As each cricketer stepped forward he would refer to the man by his surname and say , ‘ Here 's your contract and here 's your first day 's wages , and I hope you 've wintered well . ’ |
| 14 | This woman with a red headscarf is looking at them and chatting to the man behind the stall . |
| 15 | She ai n't looking at it — she 's carrying on talking to the man , but she keeps twisting the neck of this white duck . |
| 16 | In his autobiography , he tries to see how this happened to ‘ the whole man ’ — to the man who had been haunted since youth by a sense of joy ’ , to the man whose love of Autumn , of Northernness , even of his own mother , was always , as he came to feel , a longing for one without whom our hearts will find no rest . |
| 17 | In his autobiography , he tries to see how this happened to ‘ the whole man ’ — to the man who had been haunted since youth by a sense of joy ’ , to the man whose love of Autumn , of Northernness , even of his own mother , was always , as he came to feel , a longing for one without whom our hearts will find no rest . |
| 18 | Steve Goldman talks to the man widely regarded as Europe 's best film-maker . |
| 19 | MY MIND returned to the man with the starched cuffs . |
| 20 | Both have been suffering from a surfeit of squash , according to the man who manages them , Norman Norrington . |
| 21 | The fact that it looks so good is a credit at least as much to the man behind the camera , Andrew Dunn , as to Potter 's fledgling talent as director . |
| 22 | Alongside some respectable advisers , he seems to attract a rabble of supporters more loyal to the man than to the cause . |
| 23 | The intricacies of financial litigation are , however , of less interest to the man in the Manila street than the renaissance of Danding Cojuangco . |
| 24 | My uncle in the evening had read aloud something where the line was quoted The child is father to the man and these words insinuated themselves not into the stony ground and thistles of my mind but into the dark rich soil that brings forth a hundred fold . |
| 25 | ‘ The child is father to the man ’ said one of the tenders of cradles in a pause in his song . |
| 26 | The words ‘ The child is father to the man ’ , had haunted me all the morning . |
| 27 | They should always leave it up to the man . |
| 28 | ‘ Must be frustrated lust , ’ he quipped to the man in the next bed . |
| 29 | If she did not believe him they could go together to the man . |
| 30 | In the village shop , Mrs Hollidaye introduced Dot to the man in a brown overall who stood behind the wooden counter . |