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Example sentences for "man for"

  • And indeed who could blame a man for hesitating of a pitch-dark night in the winter rains, or on a blazing summer day, whether or no he should set out on a twenty-mile ride for which he might never see the ghost of a remuneration?

  • There was poor old ma; she 'ad to be man for both.

  • I have repeatedly had occasion to remark in what small stead the training that fits a man for a career in the old country stands him here.

  • What do you mean by crying shame on a man for being a bad clergyman, if a good clergyman is not a good thing?

  • If the very idea of a clergyman, was abominable, as your Church-destroyers ought to say, you ought to praise a man for being a bad one, and not acting out this same abominable idea of priesthood.

  • I never in my life met with a man for whom I felt such a partiality at first sight, except Rivers, who tells me, I have made a conquest of his friend.

  • One morning I was riding in the Park when old Sam Lewis, the great money-lender, a man for whom I had much esteem, and about whom I will relate a little story presently, came alongside.

  • It was that of a man for killing an infant, and it was proposed by the prosecution to call as a witness a little brother of the murdered child.

  • On one occasion, before Maule, I had to defend a man for murder.

  • In one way it means anything which of its nature cannot be otherwise; and in this way it is evident that it was not necessary either on the part of God or on the part of man for Christ to suffer.

  • Hence it is possible for a man to pardon an offense, for which he is offended with someone, without any change in the latter's will; but it is impossible that God pardon a man for an offense, without his will being changed.

  • It disturbed his studies, dislocated all his habitual associations and trains of thought, and unsettled the foundations of a faith, rather the result of habit than conviction, in the capacity of man for self-government.

  • His kindness was so earnest and peremptory, that it would admit neither thanks nor refusals; and I submitted to be obliged to a man for whom I felt such high esteem.

  • Y] Sir Murtagh would have been the man for that; but Sir Kit was too much taken up philandering to consider the law in this case, or any other.

  • He is a man for youth to imitate and revere!

  • The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

  • He is not fit for them, he is too sentimental a man for us; the men of Newcome want a sound practical person; the Liberals of Newcome have a desire to be represented.

  • Tom ain't much of a man for conversation, but he's a precious one to drink.

  • The crew may choose a man for themselves.

  • I told him I had sold a little, and I did not think I was doing any sin before God or man for doing it.

  • We have a man for weighing, the fish, and he comes up with the account of the fish he has got, and then we settle with the men according to the weight which he gives in to us.

  • I suppose it would; but wages are a different thing from paying a man for what he delivers to you.

  • A solitary voice, however, would have failed in an attempt to defame the character of a man for whom he had so long felt esteem and affection; other voices, therefore, were brought to bear against him.

  • Necker, a man for whom, as I have already shown, he had very little esteem.

  • The First Consul received him with the warmest cordiality, as a man for whom he had a high esteem, and whose talents and character afforded the fairest promise of what might one day be expected of him.

  • A Man's a Man for A' That; Borrowing Trouble; The Gift.

  • A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT It is said that once at a laird's house Burns was placed at a second table, and that this rankled in his breast and caused him to write his poem on equality.

  • Richard Butler Glaenzer Man's a Man for A' That, A.

  • Forth in the van, Man for man, Swing the battle-sword who can!

  • Here will we purpose, man for man, To grace a hero's grave.

  • Now all ye Germans, man for man, Forth to the holy strife!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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