Example sentences of "[verb] been a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 2 | If she 'd been a man . |
| 3 | From behind I could have been a man with my hood up . |
| 4 | Aldfrith would then have been a man in his early thirties at his accession in 685 , which seems more credible . |
| 5 | If you are a woman , what do you feel about Jesus having been a man ? |
| 6 | If you are a man , what do you feel about Jesus having been a man ? |
| 7 | Eventually neither proposal found favour , but they prove Francis Maginn to have been a man of vision and ahead of his times in his thinking . |
| 8 | His will , executed on 12 December 1760 , shows him to have been a man of substance . |
| 9 | Then discussion began : if it had been a man , and if he had died , the peace should be 10,000 dinars ; but Nuri was a boy , he had only been stabbed , so 2000 was about the right amount . |
| 10 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
| 11 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 12 | He had been a man of standing in his community , a sage , a pillar of his society , a learned man . |
| 13 | I just wish I had been a man , that 's all . |
| 14 | The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man . |
| 15 | He had been a man in authority in his own country , and used to the arrogant assertion of power … and the unquestioning obedience of each and every man who was of lesser rank than him . |
| 16 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 17 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 18 | The man — or what had been a man — was staring ; he was breathing . |
| 19 | Roxborough had been a man of wealth and insight . |
| 20 | I asked him whether , if she had been a man elevated to the peerage , he would have considered it necessary to disclose everything to do with his private life . |
| 21 | If there had been a man up the tree on the night of Mary Connon 's death — and a conversation with Kathy Grogan earlier that morning had convinced him , though her interpretation of the written word might be naively literal , there was nothing wrong with her senses , then that man could have been there for only one of three purposes . |
| 22 | He had been a violent man and her father had been a man even more violent , it was a pity they had ever met . |
| 23 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
| 24 | If she had been a man she would not have had to drive round , she would have simply gone the wrong way and got there sooner . |
| 25 | If it had been a man and woman relationship you would think that was understandable but we are n't expected to have feelings ; if we do they 're a joke . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been a man in total control all my life , and I find myself out of control around you . |
| 27 | All my life I have been a man who scorned distraction ! |
| 28 | Until recently we used to laugh behind our hands at the unfortunate women of the Soviet Union , who had to drive buses , work cranes and perform other heavy duties that have been a man 's prerogative since the beginning of time , due to an acute shortage of labour . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , Mrs Carrow , I did n't want to bother you but there 's been a man down there the last few mornings , who seems to have been watching us . |