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3 Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man — withdrawn and completely unapproachable .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 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 But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man .
7 I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man .
8 Really sad case , that , because he 'd been a fine man .
9 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 .
10 If he 'd been an ordinary man , there would n't have been any problem . ’
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 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 .
15 I think , when I think it since , I think he must have been a remarkable man to work and slave like that .
16 He could have been a handsome man .
17 James Pegg should have been a happy man , for he was with Alfred and unaccompanied by Alice .
18 If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man .
19 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 .
20 You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it .
21 John Piper may have been a foolish man in many ways but he was always friendly and generous to all classes of people .
22 I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise .
23 You know he was that tramp must have been an honest man because father said there was quite a little of sovereigns in that , and so I suppose it had been given to the parish and had seen that the man was properly buried , and then they discovered that he was an Aberdonian .
24 He can not have been an easy man and had , at least , a ferociously sober intelligence .
25 ‘ He 'd have been an interesting man , ’ he said to Florence Ames .
26 Old Eddie Mosse had been a strange man to come out of Paradise Street .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 .
30 He had been a young man , quite personable until someone slashed his throat .
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