Example sentences of "be another man " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when Blackadder allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life , that was to say his conscious thinking life , in this task , that all his thoughts would have been another man 's thoughts , all his work another man 's work . |
| 2 | Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there . |
| 3 | The local disquiet and mistrust was articulated in a letter issued by Dr Joseph Cassidy , Archbishop of Tuam , in which he expressed his concerns over gold mining , warning that ‘ one man 's gold could be another man 's poison . |
| 4 | A man-hater is someone ( and it can be another man ) inspired by revenge . |
| 5 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 6 | The far world not the The unspiritual world that that we can You see the pride in the eye , that with that that that that can be can be another women or it can it can be cosmetics , it can be a dress to women or it could be another man . |
| 7 | For one thing she happens to be another man 's wife these days . |
| 8 | He said only the Tories offered hope to small businesses and attacked Labour 's minimum wage policy , commenting : ‘ One man 's minimum wage would be another man 's P45 . ’ |
| 9 | He said only the Tories offered hope to small businesses and attacked Labour 's minimum wage policy , commenting : ‘ One man 's minimum wage would be another man 's P45 . ’ |
| 10 | There 'll be another man coming . |
| 11 | She did n't remember that only minutes before he had accused her of being another man 's discarded woman . |
| 12 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 13 | ‘ But there 's another man — a writer too , but not very distinguished , I think . |
| 14 | That 's another man . |
| 15 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 16 | All of which shows that one man 's staple is another man 's delicatessen or , rather , that the necessities of one generation can become the luxuries of the next . |
| 17 | One man 's efficient , interconnected global market is another man 's arbitrary and nationally divisive casino . |
| 18 | ‘ One man 's trash is another man 's treasure , ’ Totter said in a maddeningly calm voice , wandering over to a lower shelf as she did so . |
| 19 | One man 's second-order is another man 's first-order experience . |
| 20 | Of course I accept that one man 's fun is another man 's nightmare , and because of this more companies should think about creating ready-made racks for those who want them , or maybe just come up with designs and ideas for those who want to build their own . |
| 21 | One man 's prison sentence is another man 's reprieve , though having escaped a mugging by Tyson , Holyfield understands that he 's still only on bail from the charge that he 's a heavyweight fraud . |
| 22 | One man 's Derek B is another man 's Morrissey . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you mean there is another man ? |
| 24 | ‘ You know there is another man , then ? |
| 25 | There is another man in her life , she says . |
| 26 | Will he therefore assure the House that that proposal , which is supported by the Labour party , will be resisted most strenuously at Maastricht on the basis that one man 's subsidy is another man 's tax bill ? |
| 27 | ‘ One man 's ethics is another man 's priggery , ’ said Chatterton carelessly . |
| 28 | Well there is another man and she has told Paul that frankly she 's lapping up the attention . |
| 29 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 30 | One man 's protest about , about industrial effluent pouring into a river or pouring into the air above a beautiful city is another man 's profit . |