Example sentences of "[verb] be a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm happy for them both , Reg has been a lonely man and my mother has also been lonely since dad 's death . |
| 2 | A blunt southerner by nature , LAURIE MAINS has been a changed man since he was made All Black coach . |
| 3 | Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man — withdrawn and completely unapproachable . |
| 4 | Fashanu has been a 20-goal-a-season man ever since Wimbledon rode their magic carpet into the top flight . |
| 5 | My master has been a broken man since that day . |
| 6 | The dry anus suffers pain ; the penetrated is a humiliated man . |
| 7 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 8 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 9 | Really sad case , that , because he 'd been a fine man . |
| 10 | He 'd been a hard man to work for , but he taught Billy everything he knew about that garden and how to take care of it . |
| 11 | He says is a dangerous man . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I feel lying and waiting is a poor man 's deal , and I feel hopelessly weighed down by your eyes of steel ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I feel lying and waiting is a poor man 's deal , and I feel hopelessly weighed down by your eyes of steel ! ’ |
| 14 | At that stage , Sunderland were good value for the lead and Mr Crosby must have been a contented man . |
| 15 | Had he known that four Pakis were resting their dark arses on his deep leather seats , ready to be driven by his daughter , who had only recently been fucked by one of them , he would n't have been a contented man . |
| 16 | Wihtred was in his sixth regnal year in April 697 ( CS 96 : S 18 ) , so he secured the kingship either early in 692 or after April 691 , when he will have been a young man of about 20 . |
| 17 | He must have been a remarkable man , because when his aircraft was shot down he lost his right hand but before many months had passed he was back on his squadron with a hook on his right arm , and although I am not one hundred percent sure of my facts here , I believe he went back on operations as a navigator or air gunner . |
| 18 | I think , when I think it since , I think he must have been a remarkable man to work and slave like that . |
| 19 | He could have been a handsome man . |
| 20 | James Pegg should have been a happy man , for he was with Alfred and unaccompanied by Alice . |
| 21 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 22 | Brampton may have been a quiet man but I can not imagine him allowing anyone to hustle him upstairs in a house full of people , tie a noose round his neck and hang him . |
| 23 | You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it . |
| 24 | John Piper may have been a foolish man in many ways but he was always friendly and generous to all classes of people . |
| 25 | I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise . |
| 26 | This would always give Felix a cheeky look , even when he stopped being a black kid and started being a black man . |
| 27 | The second special case simulated is a married man , with a mortgage and some education qualifications , looking for skilled manual work . |
| 28 | The main character in the incident he relates is a black man . |
| 29 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 30 | Though several of the black kids , Daniel in particular , had argued strongly that Mr Brown was n't , bumming was a white man 's thing . |