Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're a cruel man , ’ she told him later , putting on a mournful face . |
| 2 | She straightened up now and bawled across at him , ‘ You were a lad ; now you 're a young man . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're a young man , my love . |
| 4 | Because what happens you see in these societies and Australian Aborigines are with no exceptions is that if you want a wife if you 're a young man and you want a wife you first of all got ta get initiated . |
| 5 | ‘ Because you 're a nice man . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a nice man , Jack , but this is n't a nice war . |
| 7 | You think you 're a rich man , giving a holiday to a lazy man like that Orlick ! |
| 8 | You 're a famous man , Harald ! ’ |
| 9 | But your children think that you 're a famous man , I 'm sure . |
| 10 | You 're a solid man , here . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're a dangerous man , Matthew . ’ |
| 12 | more than four a day if you 're a working man . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're a strange man , ’ she said . |
| 14 | They make rotten toilet paper , and I do n't know what else to do with them , and , oh Nick ’ — she suddenly sat heavily beside me on the bed — ‘ you 're a good man and sometimes I think how nice it would be to have a good man in my life again . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 're a good man , Jinkwa , ’ said Fakrid . |
| 16 | You 're a good man of science . |
| 17 | You 're a good man , Joel Hammond . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're a good man , Seb . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're a terrible man altogether ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 're a terrible man — ’ she managed to croak as he touched her in a way that transported her back at once to the heaven of the previous night . |
| 21 | ‘ So you 're a self-made man ? ’ she said abruptly , suddenly realising just how little she knew about him . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're a smart man . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're a determined man to stay here , are n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | You 're a marked man , Gazza |
| 25 | ‘ Ye think ye 're a big man , ’ Phillis said , with a rare spite , ‘ but I saw ye greeting . |
| 26 | ‘ Father and Ellen both say you 're a wicked man . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You 're a wicked man , ’ she said fondly . |
| 28 | Marilyn 's a lovely girl and you 're a lucky man . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're a lucky man , Vic . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You 're a lucky man . |