Example sentences of "have [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| 3 | Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man — withdrawn and completely unapproachable .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 | The 26-year-old Shannon clubman , an inspirational figure in Irish rugby 's long overdue renaissance said : ‘ It was great to get the try , but it has been a 15 man effort all along the line . |
| 5 | Fashanu has been a 20-goal-a-season man ever since Wimbledon rode their magic carpet into the top flight . |
| 6 | My master has been a broken man since that day . |
| 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 | At that stage , Sunderland were good value for the lead and Mr Crosby must have been a contented man . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | George 's grandfather must have been a smaller man than George , for the brown livery was stretched across the shoulders and the boy 's long wrists showed below the sleeve . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I think , when I think it since , I think he must have been a remarkable man to work and slave like that . |
| 17 | He could have been a handsome man . |
| 18 | James Pegg should have been a happy man , for he was with Alfred and unaccompanied by Alice . |
| 19 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it . |
| 22 | John Piper may have been a foolish man in many ways but he was always friendly and generous to all classes of people . |
| 23 | I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise . |
| 24 | Old Eddie Mosse had been a strange man to come out of Paradise Street . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 28 | He had been a young man , quite personable until someone slashed his throat . |
| 29 | He had been a violent man and her father had been a man even more violent , it was a pity they had ever met . |
| 30 | 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 . |