Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 2 | So he was either a man of great courage , or a great masochist . |
| 3 | He looked like a half-starved bum yet he was evidently a man who had known better times . |
| 4 | But he was evidently a man of powerful passions , and in the middle of his reading he broke out into an angry protest at the Council 's acquiescence in secular tyrannies in general , and at the lack of action in the case of Anselm in particular . |
| 5 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 6 | He was also a man of means and in 1839 , as a young architect , he bought up an estate in Cheltenham known as the Park and set about making fourteen acres of formal gardens and building six of speculative housing . |
| 7 | He was also a man crazy about shooting . |
| 8 | Coleman had a powerful personality , and Smith admitted that he was also a man of great charm , adding ( on unstated evidence ) that ‘ he had all the cleverness of a woman at turning that advantage to account ’ . |
| 9 | He was also a man who seemed mighty pleased to see me again . |
| 10 | But he was also a man whose attitude to life amused , astonished and alarmed his contemporaries . |
| 11 | The boys liked Basil for they felt that not only was he a good teacher , he was also a man . |
| 12 | However , he was also a man of exceptional personal warmth and charm . |
| 13 | Joseph Robinson was aware of what was good for business but he was also a man who prided himself on his love of sport : this meant that he had a responsibility to knowledge and experience . |
| 14 | He was an extremely effective and wise lawyer , but he was also a man who had the common sense to understand the nature of the advice I required ; it was advice that would discourage Harold Wilson from proceeding any further ; so much so that there were only three occasions when we actually started proceedings on his behalf . |
| 15 | He was also a man who got on well with almost all his associates , and his early death in 1854 was seen as a great blow to natural history . |
| 16 | But he was also a man of fixed principles in matters of warfare . |
| 17 | He was also a man of short stature ; he would have to climb on the beam at the front of the door to push the bolt home . |
| 18 | Yeah — i have not mentioned Ronny before — he has not been a regular in our national team — but he did play against Holland in our 0–0 away draw and he was also the man that headed in the 3–0 goal on wednesday in Norway 's humiliation of Poland . |
| 19 | He was also the man behind Darlington 's Zhivago 's nightclub . |
| 20 | He scored 15 and 1 , but he was clearly a man with an eye for posterity . |
| 21 | A and this first machine , sorry fifteen eighty five not fourteen eighty , fifteen eighty five , fifteen eighty five erm and the reason it was important I mean it 's well before the industrial revolution , two hundred years before the industrial revolution so he was really a man well ahead of his time . |
| 22 | Though the Greater Manchester pension fund investment had been blocked by Stockport council , the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive was still game , and Everett picked up a cheque for £175,000 from a suspicious representative who demanded proof that he was really the man from Guinness Mahon . |
| 23 | At face value he was quite a man . |
| 24 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 25 | ‘ He was ever a man of terrible rectitude , ’ said Owen dispassionately , half-closing his eyes to peer back into a past he hardly ever dwelt on now . |
| 26 | But he was undoubtedly the man who had made such a powerful impact on her in the Piazzale Roma . |
| 27 | Hence his attempt to enlist T. E. Lawrence in a campaign to prevent war with Germany in the 1930s , which ended in Lawrence 's tragic death , and his naive belief that since Adolf Hitler had been a member of the German regiment with whom he had fraternized in 1914 he was basically a man like Williamson who wished to maintain peace at all costs , unless forced into war by the manipulation of others . |
| 28 | He was obviously a man who rarely smiled . |
| 29 | He was only a man in a queue but something in his voice suggested that what she had said struck a chord in him . |
| 30 | He was only a man when all was said and done , and men — well , they deserved to be deceived . |