Example sentences of "had been a man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then discussion began : if it had been a man , and if he had died , the peace should be 10,000 dinars ; but Nuri was a boy , he had only been stabbed , so 2000 was about the right amount . |
| 2 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
| 3 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 4 | He had been a man of standing in his community , a sage , a pillar of his society , a learned man . |
| 5 | I just wish I had been a man , that 's all . |
| 6 | The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man . |
| 7 | He had been a man in authority in his own country , and used to the arrogant assertion of power … and the unquestioning obedience of each and every man who was of lesser rank than him . |
| 8 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 9 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 10 | The man — or what had been a man — was staring ; he was breathing . |
| 11 | Roxborough had been a man of wealth and insight . |
| 12 | I asked him whether , if she had been a man elevated to the peerage , he would have considered it necessary to disclose everything to do with his private life . |
| 13 | If there had been a man up the tree on the night of Mary Connon 's death — and a conversation with Kathy Grogan earlier that morning had convinced him , though her interpretation of the written word might be naively literal , there was nothing wrong with her senses , then that man could have been there for only one of three purposes . |
| 14 | He had been a violent man and her father had been a man even more violent , it was a pity they had ever met . |
| 15 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
| 16 | If she had been a man she would not have had to drive round , she would have simply gone the wrong way and got there sooner . |
| 17 | If it had been a man and woman relationship you would think that was understandable but we are n't expected to have feelings ; if we do they 're a joke . ’ |