Example sentences of "have be [art] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that stage , Sunderland were good value for the lead and Mr Crosby must have been a contented man . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I think , when I think it since , I think he must have been a remarkable man to work and slave like that . |
| 6 | He could have been a handsome man . |
| 7 | James Pegg should have been a happy man , for he was with Alfred and unaccompanied by Alice . |
| 8 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it . |
| 11 | John Piper may have been a foolish man in many ways but he was always friendly and generous to all classes of people . |
| 12 | I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise . |
| 13 | That must have been the only man ever to get no points three times in a row . |
| 14 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 15 | It was widely believed the committee wanted him , but insiders pointed out he may have been the wrong man for the job . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He can not have been an easy man and had , at least , a ferociously sober intelligence . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd have been an interesting man , ’ he said to Florence Ames . |