Example sentences of "man [pron] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | One young man I used to teach said to me : ‘ You do n't need to teach me when to applaud and when to shut up . |
| 2 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |
| 3 | It 's hard to believe that the man who used to play the bass in a sullen and studenty pop group called The Housemartins is the creator of this year 's most significant number one single , but the success of ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is a sing that things have truly changed for the better . |
| 4 | The proprietor reminded me of the man who used to travel round the Forest villages killing pigs . |
| 5 | ‘ He was a man who used to notice such things ? ’ |
| 6 | DE VALERA : A man who used to be President Of Ireland before he turned into Jimmy Stewart . |
| 7 | But for a man who used to prowl around LWT in a kaftan , commissioning series such as Gay Life , Birt has acquired some rather surprising supporters . |
| 8 | It is , of course , pathetic that a man who used to be a raging republican should turn into a slavering royal poodle , just as it is sad that his economic and political principles should have become as unrecognisable as the Welsh rugby team . |
| 9 | A teenage waitress has been left a £300,000 tip by a man who used to dine at her restaurant . |
| 10 | The man who used to ride around Knockglen as if it were all part of his estate ; that was Eve 's grandfather , Major Charles Westward . |
| 11 | Two of the most successful television hosts are a man who used to call himself Joan Collins Fan Club and wears skirts that show his bare buttocks ( Julian Clary ) , and the other is a post-panto Dame ( Edna ) in diamante spectacles and aurora frocks . |
| 12 | The workforce has been slashed by 2,000 and boss Sir John Egan , the man who used to run Jaguar , says that productivity per head has leapt 30% . |
| 13 | I mentioned this to a Fetlar man who used to hunt otters for their pelts , as many crofters did and he could tell me that there had been pale-coated otters in that area for at least fifty years . |
| 14 | ‘ When we were all kids the man who used to teach Joe the violin said we were like a nest of singing birds . |
| 15 | He is , although this may seem incredible , the kind of man who used to rule the world ! ’ |
| 16 | Simmo the man who used to have the Manor Ground singing is now the darling of the Derby crowd … he scored two in their seven goal thrashing of Southend on Wednesday night … |
| 17 | Well , the earliest man who used to think like this was Albert . |
| 18 | And when they go on holiday with Ann and the old man they used to get through a hundred pounds a day and they go for a week . |
| 19 | There was one man he used to come every week just to do see if there were any jobs that wanted doing and er he 'd spend , you know , a day there you know doing anything she wants doing that she could n't manage herself |