Example sentences of "[adj] man [pron] was [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
2 | Another man who was a passenger in the car has head injuries . |
3 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
4 | I said and he 's quite and inoffe i inoffensive little man he was a nice little man . |
5 | Long was a choleric , short-tempered man who was a constant trial to colleagues in opposition or in power . |
6 | A 21 year old athletic man who was a painter and had a history of good health was admitted to hospital with suspected ulcerative colitis . |
7 | But h he was n't a dishonest man he was a very honest man . |
8 | CLEARING up after a volcano may sound like a nightmare , but for one man it was a dream come true . |
9 | No he was a he was a rotten sly man there was no question about it . |
10 | ‘ Anyway , I have reason to believe that she told her young man I was a history teacher in a modest direct grant school . |
11 | Then , wryly : ‘ There may have been another reason ; even as a young man I was a staid sort of chap and they were a bit wild at times . |
12 | After keeping an eye on several possible candidates who were working in local shops , I finally selected a young man who was an assistant at a fruiterer 's in Kensington . |
13 | As a young man he was a charming and lively companion , and it was said of him that ‘ a person more invariably gentle , kind , considerate and affectionate , did not exist . ’ |
14 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |