Example sentences of "had [verb] [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 . |