Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | A blunt southerner by nature , LAURIE MAINS has been a changed man since he was made All Black coach . |
| 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 | She knew from Devlin Parnham that the old count had been a hard man . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My master has been a broken man since that day . |