Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually he was referred to a consultant who took a careful case-history and wondered if there might be some connection between the heavy doses of antibiotics he had received as a young man and the continuing diarrhoea . |
| 2 | He mentioned the insults his father had received from a young man near Trantridge who had a blind mother . |
| 3 | This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself . |
| 4 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |
| 5 | I had said to a promising-looking man behind a counter , but it seems I should have said ‘ Cup of tea ’ and left it at that , for he put his hands on his hips and shouted , ‘ What 's stopping you ? ’ |
| 6 | Juan had moved as a young man to La Blanquilla , the Venezuelan island furthest from the mainland . |
| 7 | It is perhaps as well to remember at the outset that the main injury in this particular case was a hip injury which , if it had occurred to a younger man , would have produced an arthrodesis operation . |
| 8 | Even that great opponent of the industrial system of the nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle ( 1795–1881 ) failed to relate his criticisms to the Christian doctrine that he had abandoned as a young man . |
| 9 | She reminded him of someone he had known as a young man . |
| 10 | Was this where he had trained as a young man ? |
| 11 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 12 | He studied the cruel falcon face framed by the iron-grey hair , watching those slightly slanted eyes , one half-closed — a mannerism Edward had acquired as a young man . |
| 13 | This ca n't be good for him , thought Denis , and he remembered the story he had read of an old man in England , although younger than Uncle Mick was now , who lined up to receive the very first old age pension ever issued in England and dropped down dead as soon as his money was passed over the counter to him . |