Example sentences of "[pn reflx] a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the book 's author , Zhang Yong Jie , himself a young man in his twenties , they were forced to find short-term solutions to long-term problems and they lacked well-established beliefs and values because of the rapidly changing nature of Chinese society . |
| 2 | We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’ |
| 3 | With hindsight one can point to the underground man complaining that if he could manage even to loaf and idle around wholeheartedly he would be able to call himself a lazy man . |
| 4 | Miloš was himself a rich man , with large estates in Wallachia as well as his Serbian lands . |
| 5 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 6 | But , she argues , ‘ Kant , himself a humane man , does not want to issue this general licence for redirected aggression . |
| 7 | Parr did not consider himself a jealous man , in any way . |
| 8 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 9 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 10 | In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 13 | Or perhaps she could be like Merlyn Joseph and find herself a rich man who would install her in a yacht . |
| 14 | ‘ I do wish Lottie would find herself a nice man and settle down . |
| 15 | And yet , until Irina described me as bad-tempered , I had considered myself a peaceable man , a listener and an observer , occasionally a counsellor , even a mediator . |
| 16 | The next morning I woke up , and was relieved to find myself a normal man again … |
| 17 | I , for a little while , fancied myself a military man , and it pleased me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Do you consider yourself a rich man ? ’ |