Example sentences of "not a [noun] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've not a reading man among us , ’ said Lucie dejectedly . |
| 2 | Hope he 's not a milk men . |
| 3 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 4 | Mr Stanley Bettinson , footpath officer for the North Yorkshire Moors national park , said : ‘ He knew the Dales like the back of his hand but he was a field man , not a committee man , and he loved to be outside . ’ |
| 5 | Erm do n't s you know if you 're not a discount man forget that you you just have to say I 'm I 'm gon na use it if I need it . |
| 6 | After a pause she added , ‘ You 're not a Weatherbury man ? ’ |
| 7 | One of the most heinous of Menzies ' sins was the fact that he was not a Navy man in the tradition of the one-legged Smith-Cumming — who had coined the title ‘ C ’ for holders of the post — or Admiral Sinclair . |
| 8 | He was not a country man himself , and I think must have suffered torments of loneliness and boredom . |
| 9 | De Gaulle was a soldier , not a party man . |
| 10 | GEORGE Tyson is not a gambling man nor does he take unnecessary risks . |
| 11 | Branson was not a record man , he was an entrepreneur ; and it was clear that what he wanted out of the record business were new and different opportunities . |
| 12 | ‘ Theory X is not a straw man for purposes of demolition , but is in fact a theory which materially influences managerial strategy in a wide sector of American industry today . ’ |
| 13 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 14 | Of course , you 're not a family man yourself … ’ — Ron 's eyes flickered momentarily — ‘ … but we all have our ups and downs , I daresay life 's dealt you out one or two , one way or another . ’ |
| 15 | Not a Surrey man , but by Gawd 'e was wily . ’ |
| 16 | Not a Surrey man , ‘ Utton was n't , but by gawd ‘ e ‘ ad doggedness and stickability . |
| 17 | Still worse , he could imagine he recognised a face which was n't a FAKINTIL man at all . |
| 18 | He was n't a drinking man . |
| 19 | There was n't a heist man or second-storey expert in the neighbourhood who was n't first-names with Connors . |
| 20 | My father was n't a reading man . ’ |
| 21 | But in the ordinary way we should n't expect to , of course , he is n't a writing man . |
| 22 | I spent an afternoon in Sunderland with an old miner in his eighties , who was n't a club man or active in the union , with this lovely voice , talking about first going down as a trapper — he sat all day when he was thirteen by the trap doors which the paddy wagons carrying coal had to pass through , all day in the pitch dark . |
| 23 | He was n't a horse man , himself . |