So our ability to distinguish "man bites dog" from "dog bites man" hinges on the attention that we pay to ordering and grouping, that allows us to get two different meanings out of the same set of words.
Northern newspapers approached lynchings as though they were dog bites man stories, hardly worth a column of text.
Orlean describes the extra-canine feats that Duncan would train Rinty to perform as indelibly connected to a relationship of mutual respect between dog and man.
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The man being there to feed the dog and the dog to bite the man if he tries to touch any of the machines.
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Kids play on the streets, a woman in a fur coat walks her dog, a man repairs a car, punks and travellers gather on a street corner.
One entrepreneur has begun a pet-cloning business to cater to a growing number of Japanese women who are fonder of their cat or dog than their man.
In another of its bleak ads, a young girl's dog bites a man who has been stalking her he seems a particularly menacing figure in the world of Japanese advertising.
The man was there to feed the dog, and the dog was there to keep the man from touching the computer.
The man is there to feed the dog and the dog is there to bite the man if he tries to touch any of the machines.
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What was something to behold was the willingness of the media to be borne along by the story, which had all the attributes of dog-bites-man, instead of the reverse.
Zaphiris and Stander will man a Dog News booth and watch their Skye terrier, Barrie, try to replicate the success of Buddy, their Skye terrier who won Best in Breed at Westminster the last four years.
File this one under man bites dog: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the scourge of liberals and plaintiff lawyers everywhere, delivered a heartfelt decision in favor of the class action in Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates, P.
The calls to the 999 emergency number included a man reporting that "someone robbed my marmalade", a woman saying her sister had brought a stray dog into her house and a man stating that he had seen "a chicken walking down the road".
The woman was so distraught that she passed her cell phone to a man walking his dog.
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The low man (or dog) on the totem pole unexpectedly gets his moment of dignity, simple as that.
And judges picked Mr Hollins from the nominations for rescuing a drowning man and his dog from a fast-flowing river.
His body was found lying face down off a path 10 days after he disappeared by a man walking his dog.
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The body was spotted in the pond in fields outside the hospital by a local man walking his dog on Tuesday evening.
The recipient in France, Isabelle Dinoire, had been mauled by a dog, and the Chinese man, Li Guoxing, was attacked by a bear.
By our reckoning, just about every man and his dog is getting involved, and occasionally even some sheep ( Shearing and Wool Handling Championships).
The death of a 79-year-old man in a dog attack in Liverpool has left his family "heartbroken", his brother has said in a family tribute.
Dorset Police said armed police, a helicopter and dog units assisted and a man in his mid 20s was arrested at an address on Commercial Road.
In a country where the game is followed with an almost religious passion, every man and his dog seem to have an opinion on the 16 finalists or have had a go at predicting the outcomes.
It employs one man and one dog.
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Her body, covered by plastic bags and a quilt cover, was found by a man out walking his dog.
Just this week, we had another conviction of a military man for letting his dog, you know, abuse a prisoner.
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