Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think I 'm a sad man ? ’ |
| 2 | Afterwards Fogarty admitted : ‘ I thought a North-West win would never come for me , but now that it has I 'm a happy man . ’ |
| 3 | I treat it as a compliment that people say I 'm a marked man now , though I doubt it 's true . ’ |
| 4 | And a fellow said to me about two ye , two to three years ago I expect it was two telegraph people up that pole out an just outside of my gate and he 's still there and I walk along the gate and he turned round to me he say you 're a lucky man ! |
| 5 | ‘ Father and Ellen both say you 're a wicked man . ’ |
| 6 | I love that do you know he 's a mean man with a verruca that guy as well . |
| 7 | How do you know he 's a rich man and what do you class what do yo , what do you base in rich ? |
| 8 | His family say he is a changed man . |
| 9 | Useless for Boswell to point out that notwithstanding the title ‘ Doctor ’ , physick did not belong in Johnson 's otherwise comprehensive repertoire , and here it was that the landlord made a distinction which so pleased Johnson : ‘ They say he is the greatest man in England , except Lord Mansfield . ’ |
| 10 | Folks say he 's a hard man , but he 's all right , really . |
| 11 | Let me be a free man — free to travel , free to stop , free to work , free to trade where I choose , free to choose my own teachers , free to follow the religion of my fathers , free to think and talk and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty … |
| 12 | Five drafts of the relevant passage survive , the first reading ‘ When all 's said and done I 'm a decent man ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's always said I 'm the perfect man for long- ball football , but I can play anywhere you want me to . |
| 14 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 15 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 16 | ‘ Your zeide says he 's a big man in the Jewish National Fund — that Karlinsky . |
| 17 | He always says he 's a busy man , unable to predict his schedule , but really it 's all part of the game . ’ |
| 18 | You are encouraging him , you 're making him feel he 's a great man with a message and it 's do or die . |
| 19 | I 've always said he 's the best man for the job . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's said he was a boorish man — moody , quarrelsome . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If you have been reasonable , if you are offering your own wealth , two cows instead of one , and he will not listen , if he thinks you are a small man and will not listen to your suggestions , why not ? |
| 23 | Our father thinks you are the best man to carry out the task which is before us , and so you have our support , whatever you decide . ’ |
| 24 | I wonder what it is , Mrs Sutherland , that makes you believe I 'm an uneducated man ? |
| 25 | well he says he 'll tell me what he suggests and if it agrees with what I 've got I 'm a happy man are n't I . |
| 26 | ‘ He said he could see I was a young man with all his wits about him . ’ |
| 27 | I know I 've been behaving like a pig , comme un porco , for a bit , but please read all my letters from the Jungle and you 'll see I 'm a changed man . |
| 28 | Oh no look it was the invisible man driving the car . |
| 29 | They 'd hardly believe it was the same man . ’ |
| 30 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |