Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | he screamed to persuade himself that he was not frightened , and suddenly the barricade dissolved in an explosion of smoke through which the musket flames stabbed like shivers of light and the General 's long white moustache was whipped by a bullet that went on to tear away his left ear-lobe , but that was the only injury he took for he had always been a lucky man , and he caught a glimpse of long weeds shivering under the silver water beneath the bridge , then he kicked his heels hard back , and his awkward ugly horse clumsily jumped the heaped-chairs at the right-hand end of the barricade . |
| 2 | At the time of the Westerfield poisonings he had sometimes been a difficult man to agree with , and he 'd more than once annoyed her by his attitude . |
| 3 | The present managers of both cooperatives are from out with the Western Isles , although in Ness there had previously been a local man . |
| 4 | Robert had never been a healthy man and found it difficult to earn a living . |
| 5 | Although he had been a member of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate he had never been a true man of Congress . |
| 6 | What we have here is a senile man , desperate to be right ; his story is all that holds the world together , he just knows . |