Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had met a man who made sense to me even though he was forty-six and I was fifteen . |
| 2 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 3 | If she had found a man , life would have turned out differently for her , he knew . |
| 4 | Now it seemed she had found a man she could love , but he was someone else 's husband and her brother was bent on vengeance . |
| 5 | She had found a man who meant more to her than anything in the world and he was of another world , as he had told her . |
| 6 | Seven years ago , she had allowed a man from Christ Church to do it to her on a sofa during a Commem ball , and really she had not liked it . |
| 7 | ( She had attacked a man in Aberdeen in the mistaken notion that he was Lloyd George : in fact he was a Baptist minister . ) |
| 8 | Although she had mentioned a man named Clive . |
| 9 | She had propositioned a man . |
| 10 | She had married a man for whom duty always came first . |
| 11 | My motive is owing to no dislike I have for him but methinks it would reflect a little upon my Pamela if she had married a man for his estate when she had rather have had another . |
| 12 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 13 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 14 | FLORIDA Police last night announced they had arrested a man in connection with the killing of a German tourist shot dead on a Miami highway less than 24 hours earlier . |
| 15 | ‘ What made you decide on a career as a vet ? ’ he asked , after they had passed a man walking an Alsatian by the canal and Robbie had enthused over its fine points . |
| 16 | Now it had produced a man who seemed capable of duplicating that feat in the vast Lenin Stadium in Moscow . |
| 17 | The last evidence of the day came from a man called Povey , a coalman , who said that between 5.05 and 5.25 , he had seen a man who he identified as Drew , drunk as a sack in Broad Street ( adjacent to Cross Street ) . |
| 18 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 19 | He had seen a man being chased by two Riotsville hoodlums . |
| 20 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 21 | Now , he stared down at his Saturday suit and was afraid at the new possibility that he had become a man set in his ways , upset by change . |
| 22 | He went on talking of peace , but he had become a man who had allowed Britain 's major industry to be decimated and embittered . |
| 23 | The likeness was there , Master Harry 's divination had been marvellously guided ; but he had carved a man , and this , after all , was no more than a boy , not yet grown . |