Example sentences of "been a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had been a violent man and her father had been a man even more violent , it was a pity they had ever met . |
| 5 | Patrick had not been a demonstrative man . |
| 6 | He 'd never shortened her name , or been a demonstrative man , and she still found it almost impossible to guess what he was thinking . |
| 7 | Old Eddie Mosse had been a strange man to come out of Paradise Street . |
| 8 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had been a young man , quite personable until someone slashed his throat . |
| 11 | Robert had never been a healthy man and found it difficult to earn a living . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Shaw spent most of his time on organization and records ; he was rarely involved directly in inquiries but he had been a first-class man on the ground . |
| 14 | Really sad case , that , because he 'd been a fine man . |
| 15 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 16 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 17 | The present managers of both cooperatives are from out with the Western Isles , although in Ness there had previously been a local man . |
| 18 | Uncle Bill had been a wise man to leave the money to Angela , who had enjoyed it , rather than to this grudging , bitter , scruffy young woman . |
| 19 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 20 | He had been a sick man , chiefly concerned to ensure the undisputed succession of his son and then end his days in peace . |
| 21 | Fashanu has been a 20-goal-a-season man ever since Wimbledon rode their magic carpet into the top flight . |
| 22 | The 26-year-old Shannon clubman , an inspirational figure in Irish rugby 's long overdue renaissance said : ‘ It was great to get the try , but it has been a 15 man effort all along the line . |
| 23 | John Piper may have been a foolish man in many ways but he was always friendly and generous to all classes of people . |
| 24 | I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise . |
| 25 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 26 | Their most famous inhabitant had been a crazy man , a drunk , a painter , a man who made no secret of his liaison with a whore . |
| 27 | You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it . |
| 28 | Although he had been a member of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate he had never been a true man of Congress . |
| 29 | If that had been a true man he 'd have drunk it again afterwards ! |
| 30 | A blunt southerner by nature , LAURIE MAINS has been a changed man since he was made All Black coach . |