Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 4 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 5 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She turned and saw it was a young man quite obviously afflicted by Down 's syndrome who had called her . |
| 8 | Looking up he saw it was a different man from the one who had chosen not to see . |
| 9 | Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 11 | He knew he was no such man ! |
| 12 | It was quite apparent that he knew he was a doomed man . |
| 13 | He knew he was a dead man , no matter what happened — it was just a matter of time . |
| 14 | Their swords rang together , and Riven knew he was the weaker man . |
| 15 | For a moment she was confused ; she thought it was the thin man , and she could n't work out how he 'd got behind them . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Erm Steve for some reason I thought he was a tall man , but he 's quite short is n't he ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He thought he was the odd man out as far as nationality was concerned because everybody else , including me , was North American . |
| 20 | If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him . |
| 21 | He had had dealings with Eddie 's family , and as Eddie says : ‘ My father always said you was a smart man . ’ |
| 22 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 23 | Madonna said he was the sexiest man in the world . |