Example sentences of "[vb past] been a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 2 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 3 | Really sad case , that , because he 'd been a fine man . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Old Eddie Mosse had been a strange man to come out of Paradise Street . |
| 6 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 7 | It was revealed that Spiro had been a middle man between the CIA and MI6 over the release of Beirut hostages including Terry Waite and John McCarthy . |
| 8 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 9 | He had been a young man , quite personable until someone slashed his throat . |
| 10 | He had been a violent man and her father had been a man even more violent , it was a pity they had ever met . |
| 11 | Shaw spent most of his time on organization and records ; he was rarely involved directly in inquiries but he had been a first-class man on the ground . |
| 12 | If that had been a true man he 'd have drunk it again afterwards ! |
| 13 | She knew from Devlin Parnham that the old count had been a hard man . |
| 14 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 15 | Their most famous inhabitant had been a crazy man , a drunk , a painter , a man who made no secret of his liaison with a whore . |
| 16 | He had been a sick man , chiefly concerned to ensure the undisputed succession of his son and then end his days in peace . |
| 17 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 18 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 19 | Uncle Bill had been a wise man to leave the money to Angela , who had enjoyed it , rather than to this grudging , bitter , scruffy young woman . |