Example sentences of "[pron] an [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had not consciously memorised the names or done anything which an honest man would consider wrong . |
| 2 | Police in Germany have ended a hijack in which an Egyptian man held a Dutch plane and two crew hostage . |
| 3 | We heard of a case in which an unfortunate man accidentally swallowed one . |
| 4 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 5 | In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet . |
| 6 | The out-of-the-practical-swim ex-student , ex-teacher , the worker at thinking in bed , would be able to call himself an arrested man ! |
| 7 | Another noted that ‘ the very expression ‘ green belt ’ sounds like something an ordinary man may find it worthwhile to be interested in who may find no appeal whatever in ‘ the distribution of industrial population ’ or ‘ decentralisation ’ … |
| 8 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 9 | I considered him an honest man ; Let's have her in ; He likes his coffee strong . |
| 10 | Show her an old man with white hair and a long flowing beard and she 'll really think she is . |
| 11 | Above it an old man fished while others sat on benches , tankards in hand . |
| 12 | Is he an honourable man ? |
| 13 | The cripple , for example , who had flung Allen into the stream , was he an honest man or a rascal ? |
| 14 | ‘ Is he an honest man ? ’ asked Bobbie . |
| 15 | And he an old man ! |
| 16 | ‘ What an international man you are ! |
| 17 | ‘ What an amazing man and to have him in your team is a real bonus , ’ he said . |
| 18 | What an awful man ! |
| 19 | What an evil man ! ’ |
| 20 | PS : Blandly found us an excellent man to be captain , and Silver found a man called Arrow to be first officer . |