Example sentences of "[adj] man was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course primitive man was a sun worshipper . |
| 2 | He then goes on to say that after her death he loved her more than when she was alive — this leads us into a trap , for we begin to feel that the old man was a ghoulish sentimentalist . |
| 3 | The Old Man was a medieval carved head which formed the keystone of the door into the old school , formerly St. Paul 's Church . |
| 4 | There are old men still up there who say , ‘ Your old man was a wonderful five-eighth , but he used to come the knuckle . ’ |
| 5 | The old man was a cripple and in the last years of his life . |
| 6 | And you 're supposed to be down here finding out whether some crazy old man was a double . |
| 7 | ‘ The old man was a damn good listener when it suited him and he knew the right questions . |
| 8 | The old man was a cracked leather bottle trying to contain quicksilver . |
| 9 | This cool dark-suited man was a stranger . |
| 10 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 11 | This remarkable man was a loyal supporter of the BDDA all his life and none more worthy could have been chosen to hold the fort as President . |
| 12 | According to tribal legend , the first Nez Perce to encounter a white man was a woman called Watkuweis , meaning ‘ Returned from a Faraway Country ’ . |
| 13 | A spokesman for Tyne Tees Coastguards confirmed that the missing man was a member of Newbiggin lifeboat crew — one of the lifeboats taking part in the search off Whitby , North Yorkshire . |
| 14 | The key virtue was self-reliance ; the admirable man was the self-made man ; the goal was to be your own boss . |
| 15 | The fact that the 79-year-old man was the oldest man standing trial for murder this century was an extra ingredient of interest . |
| 16 | Maybe this big black-haired man was a policeman ? |
| 17 | The really heroic man was the one who practised chastity as a young man . |
| 18 | A one-armed man was no use . |
| 19 | This young man was a bull looking for a china shop . |
| 20 | ‘ Her young man was a soldier , was n't he ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If we make comparisons , Montgomery was a staff captain when this young man was a brigadier general . |
| 22 | The young man was an obvious don . |
| 23 | ( The young man was an Austrian of half-Jewish descent called Ludwig Wittgenstein , see chapter seven . ) |
| 24 | Hearing that the young man was the only son of a gentleman of wealth , the money-lender begged of him never to hesitate in coming to him again whenever he stood in need of a ‘ friend ’ . |
| 25 | The young man was the star of his own story . |
| 26 | That young man was the sort to fly high , having cut his teeth so to speak , on — what was it ? |
| 27 | The new man was a Danuese , Monsignor Teixeira . |
| 28 | Durkheim , Claudia 's inspiration , said at the beginning of the century that the problem for twentieth-century western man was the anomie created by the breakdown of the old certainties . |
| 29 | It was the conclusion of the police that the dead man was a practitioner of some obscure religion . |
| 30 | His servant came to pack his clothes , and while he was doing this , he told Dorian that the dead man was a sailor , but no one knew his name . |