Example sentences of "man at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were no longer debating the rights of man at a Club for Equality and Reform . |
| 2 | After that Menzies had walked along the hill to Duntaylor and Dunacree ( leaving out the lonely man at Dunskiag with his terrifying dogs ) . |
| 3 | The man at the British customs was much sterner than the magistrate who came from the capital to investigate crimes committed in our village . |
| 4 | For The Possessed , outcomes ( including Dostoevsky 's healed man at the feet of Jesus ) are consoling myths . |
| 5 | With a garrulous old man at the inn . |
| 6 | PAUL SEYMOUR , formerly Michael Hepher 's right-hand man at Abbey Life , is leaving to be chief executive of Laurentian Holding Company , the financial services group headed by Lord Marsh , former Labour minister and British Railways Board chairman . |
| 7 | Healey always seems a man at the receiving end , full of great ideas but with little or no room for manoeuvre . |
| 8 | The new man at the top is Robert Louis-Dreyfus , a Frenchman , who is joining Saatchi from IMS , the market research group with Charles Scott , an existing colleague , as finance director . |
| 9 | Even Peter Thorneycroft , the veteran proto-monetarist of 1958 whom she had made Party Chairman , proved to be a ‘ one-nation ’ man at heart , and she was eventually to sack him in favour of a little-tried new favourite , Cecil Parkinson , the Paymaster-General . |
| 10 | We do not know what Eric Abbott said but he was Ramsey 's second superior at Lincoln Theological College and then his best man at the wedding . |
| 11 | Yet the very study of mythology from a scientific attitude distanced modern man at the same time as it seemed to bring him closer . |
| 12 | Then , after the party we went along to see Man at The Lyceum . |
| 13 | New man at the top |
| 14 | Werner Niefer , the top man at Mercedes-Benz , was on hand but otherwise , German industry chiefs were thinner on the ground than usual with the unification celebrations in Berlin . |
| 15 | Marvellous wedding he 'd have if they found his best man at midnight somewhere in the Midlands with his head bashed in . |
| 16 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 17 | Brendan Nasser and David Carter are well capable of disrupting French attempts at fluidity , but France 's problem is possession and if Lorieux , Devergie and Erbani ( a back-row man at lock ) can not provide authority , then Lynagh will surely punish Fouroux 's selection at full-back of France 's most capped centre , Philippe Sella . |
| 18 | No man at his age ever had a straighter back , that we were sure of , straight and strong , it was as the ground ash stick he always carried . |
| 19 | ‘ Covenants , without the sword , are but words , and of no strength to secure a man at all . ’ |
| 20 | Man At His Best |
| 21 | Man at his Worst |
| 22 | She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man . |
| 23 | He was the fourth of twelve speakers over the three day conference , the others being Ministers , Commissioners , Economists and Academics , and had been introduced by the Chairman as ‘ The Man at the Sharp End ’ . |
| 24 | They had picked up the man at the bottom of the hill . |
| 25 | Clarissa enquired from her bed if the gentleman had a black shirt on , and Charles was in the middle of telling her that it was n't a man at all , but a woman , well a girl , and quite a pretty one too if treasonable , when the record , a 78 of course , ended . |
| 26 | There was a man at last who could discern the larger purposes of God , and who played his part in them to the full . |
| 27 | He was a man at Faith 's funeral and they should be grateful to him , should n't they ? |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I 'll ask him , but he too is a busy man at present , Sax . ’ |
| 29 | He gives a passable imitation of a man at the wrong end of a coconut shy . |
| 30 | The CIA man at the airport said he did not see any winking going on ; but the NHAO humanitarian flights , of which Duemling was in charge , routinely allowed ‘ 10 percent lethal ’ . |