Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I treat it as a compliment that people say I 'm a marked man now , though I doubt it 's true . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | ‘ Father and Ellen both say you 're a wicked man . ’ |
| 4 | His family say he is a changed man . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Folks say he 's a hard man , but he 's all right , really . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Oh no look it was the invisible man driving the car . |
| 9 | Remember I am an old man . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And I know I 'm a lucky man . |
| 11 | Okay Martin , I know you are a busy man , may I call you Martin ? |
| 12 | It 's been there a very long time , cos that man was old who asked me , you , you know it was an old man he said that , and I was quite young , he said er , er is that cross still there in , in Chichester , I said yes , it 's still there . |
| 13 | You know he was an outdoor man . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not a question of whether I feel I 'm the best man for the job . |
| 15 | I suppose you 're the top man ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 17 | " Gemma dear , he has a right to be considered and I believe he is a fresh-air man — the Gages and the Bartram-Hyndes have all been brought up to that . |
| 18 | Police believe it was the same man . |
| 19 | I mean he 's a young man and he 's |
| 20 | ‘ Ye think ye 're a big man , ’ Phillis said , with a rare spite , ‘ but I saw ye greeting . |
| 21 | You think you 're a rich man , giving a holiday to a lazy man like that Orlick ! |
| 22 | I think you 're a lucky man . ’ |
| 23 | Just when I think you 're the kindest man in the world you suddenly get the glooms again . |
| 24 | I think you are a young man now , what will you be in fourteen years , and will it matter then whether you are Holovich or Holly ? |
| 25 | I think you are the boldest man I ever met with , but sir , surely you ought to know that you are not now in the Haymarket . |
| 26 | ‘ I think he 's a disappointed man , ’ she said . |
| 27 | I think he 's a great man . |
| 28 | Later she said to Peter , ‘ I think he 's a lovely man , ’ and the moment she had spoken , she knew it was a mistake . |
| 29 | I think he 's a charming man and he 's certainly better than Major or Kinnock , who both give me the creeps . |
| 30 | ‘ I really think he is an incredible man . |