Example sentences of "a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think it 's been a mans world , they , they 've had a wonderful time ! |
| 2 | And anything that 's not on the up and up is , well I think it 's detrimental to a mans life . |
| 3 | Relatives and friends of a man shot dead during pro-democracy demonstrations in Bamako , with the body in a hospital morgue . |
| 4 | Her mother tried to persuade the woman who had received the letters to let her talk with this guard ; a man who was actually in touch with her husband . |
| 5 | In the fourth cell there is a man with long dishevelled hair . |
| 6 | Kiff set out to make an image of a man writing . |
| 7 | I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul 's novel : the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend , the novelist Paul Theroux , as having in earlier times been ‘ merciless , solitary , and ( one of his favourite words ) unassailable ’ . |
| 8 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 9 | The testimonies in the book were obtained mostly from the underlings of the house , led by sly , supportive Bert , a man who was able to take and to give pleasure — a fine portrait , which is also a self-portrait , of a second father . |
| 10 | And there is a point of view from which Ronald Fraser might be seen as a man of Marxist leanings who paid a professional adviser what may have been a fair whack of a working man 's wages to enquire with him into the deficiencies of his affective life . |
| 11 | ‘ She set higher store by emotional security ’ than her sister , ‘ and thought she would find it with a man soft-hearted and caring and pliant , far removed , as she thought , from father 's toughness and uncontrollability . ’ |
| 12 | In Ackroyd 's life of Eliot we read about a major poet who was a good ventriloquist ; a man of multiple personality who swore by a principle of impersonality in art which he was later to unswear by locating The Waste Land in the stresses of a domestic life , and whose art bears the indelible signature of that distinctive protean character of his ; a man who was often miserable and tormented . |
| 13 | In Ackroyd 's life of Eliot we read about a major poet who was a good ventriloquist ; a man of multiple personality who swore by a principle of impersonality in art which he was later to unswear by locating The Waste Land in the stresses of a domestic life , and whose art bears the indelible signature of that distinctive protean character of his ; a man who was often miserable and tormented . |
| 14 | A man , back from Spain , addresses her in tones that approximate to what the Independent thought was the ‘ well-educated voice ’ , and to what the Guardian thought was the ‘ assured accent ’ , transmitted by the Intelligence chief responsible for the shooting of the IRA bombers in Gibraltar which preceded the arrival of the novel . |
| 15 | Nathan Zuckerman is a persona 's persona : Roth begat Peter Tarnopol — who begat Nathan Zuckerman — in the novel of 1974 , My Life as a Man . |
| 16 | We are conscious of what Zuckerman does for Roth : when he helps a man to gather his spilt heart pills , it is Roth helping himself by assigning a small mercy . |
| 17 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 18 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 19 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 20 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 21 | In this collection of pieces which revert to themes pursued in If this is a man Levi writes : ‘ Desperate , the Jewish survivors , in flight from Europe after the great shipwreck , have created in the bosom of the Arab world an island of Western civilisation , a portentous palingenesis of Judaism , and the pretext for renewed hatred . ’ |
| 22 | It is not clear why this is a reproach to Levi , whose story concerns a man whose piety is idiosyncratic , especially severe . |
| 23 | A World Apart is , ‘ despite ’ its author 's socialism , a ‘ deeply religious book ’ , in which she has at times the sense of ‘ a man talking to God ’ . |
| 24 | These remarks concerning If this is a man do not describe the kind of book which runs easily to sequels , and which is easy to live up to . |
| 25 | The book is no sequel to If this is a man , but its explications are never without interest . |
| 26 | Objects disappear , and for a man of 29 he seems to have grabbed hold of very little of anything except a glass and a book . |
| 27 | Would such a man talk of fairies like this ? |
| 28 | Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks ; |
| 29 | Naw I think a man of quality and breeding may be much better diverted with the natural sprauts of his own . |
| 30 | But to say the truth , madam , let a man love reading never so well , when once he comes to know this tawn , he finds so many better ways of passing the four-and-twenty hours , that 't were ten thousand pities he should consume his time in that . |