Example sentences of "been a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then discussion began : if it had been a man , and if he had died , the peace should be 10,000 dinars ; but Nuri was a boy , he had only been stabbed , so 2000 was about the right amount . |
| 2 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , is warmly liked and admired , but will need to overcome some reservations about whether , had she been a man , she would have won the Cabinet place on intellect alone . |
| 3 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
| 4 | If you are a woman , what do you feel about Jesus having been a man ? |
| 5 | If you are a man , what do you feel about Jesus having been a man ? |
| 6 | A female employee was offensively treated by two male colleagues , but at first her claim was rejected because the industrial tribunal felt that , had she been a man , she would still have been harassed , although the specific nature of the unpleasantness might have been different . |
| 7 | From behind I could have been a man with my hood up . |
| 8 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 9 | He had been a man of standing in his community , a sage , a pillar of his society , a learned man . |
| 10 | I just wish I had been a man , that 's all . |
| 11 | The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man . |
| 12 | Enlightenment man has undoubtedly been a man of power , but he has also been a barbarian . |
| 13 | He had never been a man to face up to anything unpleasant . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , Mrs Carrow , I did n't want to bother you but there 's been a man down there the last few mornings , who seems to have been watching us . |
| 15 | He had been a man in authority in his own country , and used to the arrogant assertion of power … and the unquestioning obedience of each and every man who was of lesser rank than him . |
| 16 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 17 | Inside the tabernacle grounds stood an X-shaped cross , and upon that hung a ragged figure that had once been a man . |
| 18 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 19 | The man — or what had been a man — was staring ; he was breathing . |
| 20 | Had he been a man of no imagination and of totally strict principles , Joe would never have considered steaming the letter open . |
| 21 | Roxborough had been a man of wealth and insight . |
| 22 | Had n't there been a man 's voice : ‘ I am deliverance ’ ? |
| 23 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 24 | Ian Mikardo approached me to see whether I would assist in raising funds to establish a scholarship at Haifa University in honour of the ( then ) late Dick Crossman , who had indeed been a man of the most friendly associations . |
| 25 | I asked him whether , if she had been a man elevated to the peerage , he would have considered it necessary to disclose everything to do with his private life . |
| 26 | Well , there 's never been a man to stand against me and see another day ! ’ |
| 27 | Eventually neither proposal found favour , but they prove Francis Maginn to have been a man of vision and ahead of his times in his thinking . |
| 28 | Aldfrith would then have been a man in his early thirties at his accession in 685 , which seems more credible . |
| 29 | Camille wondered whether , if she was not here , he would be more expansive , then remembered that he had always been a man of few words . |
| 30 | His will , executed on 12 December 1760 , shows him to have been a man of substance . |