Example sentences of "been an [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He can not have been an easy man and had , at least , a ferociously sober intelligence . |
| 3 | I have n't been an easy man to live with for the past year . |
| 4 | If he 'd been an ordinary man , there would n't have been any problem . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd have been an interesting man , ’ he said to Florence Ames . |
| 6 | She heard her own shaming urgency and winced self-consciously , but even if he had been an observant man , Florian was currently too preoccupied to have noticed it , still busily congratulating himself and probably fantasising about taking Hawaii by storm . |