Example sentences of "man and [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born in 1925 at Drummamore , just outside Armagh , Mr Rafferty had a variety of jobs , including farm labourer , insurance salesman , bread delivery man and nurse in a mental institution , before entering journalism . |
| 2 | TELEPHONE sweethearts Heather Shannon and Chris Fereday became man and wife at the weekend after a whirlwind romance started by chance . |
| 3 | It proves you spent at least three weekends together as man and wife in the Cotswolds . |
| 4 | She 's one of the ‘ one partner for life ’ brigade , man and wife in the eyes of God forever and ever a-bloody-men . |
| 5 | Minutes later every police station in the Metropolitan area was receiving a description of a man and instructions for every beat officer to keep an eye open , to spot but not approach , to radio back to the police station and tail the suspect but not intervene . |
| 6 | In another Latin poem , for instance , called Mansus , written to a distinguished old man and patron of the arts , that he met in Italy , Giovanni Battista Manso , a friend of Tasso and Marini , Milton hopes that he too in his turn may find such a good friend and patron . |
| 7 | The cult of platonic love ; the escalation of interaction between man and woman to a level above the sexual and the personal . |
| 8 | The coarsest grip jokes date from 1940s Australia , like the Lindeman Island grip captioned , ‘ Well , what are you looking at ? ’ , whose illustration is described in Mr Hooker 's catalogue as ‘ man and woman at a urinal ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The man and woman in the Garden were not free from God 's demands . |
| 11 | A man and woman in the car died as it was crushed under the lorry . |
| 12 | It is estimated that up to one million Americans invested in shares — from millionaires to the ordinary man and woman in the street . |
| 13 | The Commission is outside a sensible structure of democratic accountability and has shown a tendency to impose a Euro-synthesis at micro-level — silly proposals for the nooks and crannies of our life that antagonise the man and woman in the street . |
| 14 | Since those heady early days of privatisation , the world of high finance has become far more accessible to the ordinary man and woman in the street . |
| 15 | Perhaps , but Sibylle — who admits that she positively enjoyed much of her time in the Hitler Youth — believes that the ordinary man and woman in the street was n't by inclination a resistance fighter . |
| 16 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 17 | He still had I am a Fugitive in mind and he recalled how in that ‘ job ’ ( in itself a revealing word ) ‘ every man and woman within a hundred yards of camera range is acting his head off , figuring that he is a Clark Gable , or a Garbo ! ’ |
| 18 | In the Israeli-occupied West Bank yesterday Palestinian gunmen shot and wounded an Israeli man and woman near the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba . |
| 19 | The incident occurred after a dispute between the man and staff at a branch of the Bank of Ireland in Cahir . |
| 20 | The second march , on 27 December , organized by the Crusade , was calculated to have brought 90,000 men and women onto the streets , although again numbers have been hugely exaggerated . |
| 21 | There are some whose function has stimulated less comment such as tweezers found in male graves ; if it were accepted that they were primarily depilatory we must consider their role in the alteration of the physical appearance of men and women as a cultural trait . |
| 22 | This is one of the most progressive pieces of legislation in the world in attempting to establish equality between men and women as the rule in marriage . |
| 23 | Massive and beautifully-designed trophies were awarded to the top three men and women as the personal gifts given by the king , the princes and the princesses respectively . |
| 24 | Because these five women — with their beautifully made-up , famous faces are the nucleus of Parents for Safe Food , a group founded by celebrities to voice the concerns of an increasing number of men and women about the pesticides and herbicides making their way onto our plates . |
| 25 | Certainly a long term study into how best to transform the European Cups for men and women into a wholly credible fixture on the calendar , is being investigated . |
| 26 | In the words of the 1911 Manifesto of the National Council of Public Morals , an influential campaigning force , the solution to national immorality lay in educating young men and women into the physiological knowledge and lofty ideals of marriage . |
| 27 | The dawn light showed a crowd of men and women with a pack of dogs running beside them . |
| 28 | He felt the sufferings of the world most keenly when he was confronted with those who were weakest , most vulnerable , least able to defend themselves — refugees : men and women with no home to go to , and , most bereft of all refugees , children . |
| 29 | You are meant to follow in the wake of the stylised men and women with the Pentel pens on Monday 23 October , while design students only will be welcomed on the Tuesday . |
| 30 | Under these Acts , and with only minor exceptions , employers , educational establishments , and those who provide goods , facilities and services to the public ( e.g. banks , building societies , finance houses , and landlords ) commit a civil offence if they do not provide men and women with the same opportunities and services . |