Example sentences of "man [conj] [noun] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant the provision of a wage large enough for the needs of a man and wife supplemented by a state-paid system of allowances for all children . |
| 2 | The man and woman met by arrangement at Waterloo Station , although they did not appear to . |
| 3 | He is an engaging young man and delights Rob by showing a marked and discriminating interest in any musical instrument he gets hold of . |
| 4 | Firstly , the cry was the cry of solidarity with the corrupted hopelessness and dereliction of all men and women broken by sin and separation . |
| 5 | She gave examples of men and women rejected by family and friends who had found acceptance and love and friendship in the church . |
| 6 | Hannover station was like a greenhouse and bustling with tanned young men and women hunchbacked by huge colourful rucksacks . |
| 7 | Like King Arthur of the Britons , Charles the Great , Caroli Magni , changed from being a historical person into a legendary ideal — the great ruler who set the world aright , and encouraged men and women to live by a fusion of spiritual and material principles . |
| 8 | This crazy world whirled about her , men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets , where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked and played musical instruments in the small and terrible hours of the night into which again she had been thrust . |
| 9 | If present marriage rates continue , then the expected proportions of men and women married by age 50 would be around 77% for men and 78% for women , compared with 93% of women and 96% of men in 1971 . |
| 10 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 11 | Tallis gasped as she saw the bones of men and horses piled by the river and flung into the branches , grim remnants of those who had not won the day . |
| 12 | Much is uncertain , but the triumphs of Swegen and Cnut are not , and the ability to organise men and materials suggested by works such as the Trelleborg camps would have been vital in orchestrating campaigns against the English , who had considerable administrative resources of their own . |