Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 2 | Perhaps they thought I was a wild man myself , in my strange home-made clothes of animals ' skins , and with my long hair and beard . |
| 3 | She turned and saw it was a young man quite obviously afflicted by Down 's syndrome who had called her . |
| 4 | Looking up he saw it was a different man from the one who had chosen not to see . |
| 5 | It was quite apparent that he knew he was a doomed man . |
| 6 | He knew he was a dead man , no matter what happened — it was just a matter of time . |
| 7 | Even afterwards , when the worst was known , he certainly still thought he was a better man than Mengele ; perhaps even the nuclear physicist Edward Teller ( Father of the Hydrogen Bomb , Wicked Uncle to Star Wars ) . |
| 8 | Erm Steve for some reason I thought he was a tall man , but he 's quite short is n't he ? |
| 9 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 10 | And he said you 're a better man than I am ! |
| 11 | He had had dealings with Eddie 's family , and as Eddie says : ‘ My father always said you was a smart man . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I said he 's a good man . |
| 13 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |