Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] been a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Eddie Mosse had been a strange man to come out of Paradise Street . |
| 2 | Their most famous inhabitant had been a crazy man , a drunk , a painter , a man who made no secret of his liaison with a whore . |
| 3 | It was revealed that Spiro had been a middle man between the CIA and MI6 over the release of Beirut hostages including Terry Waite and John McCarthy . |
| 4 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 5 | She knew from Devlin Parnham that the old count had been a hard man . |
| 6 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 7 | Uncle Bill had been a wise man to leave the money to Angela , who had enjoyed it , rather than to this grudging , bitter , scruffy young woman . |
| 8 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |