Example sentences of "man i [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | There 's no other door , and the only person who uses that door is the man I 've just described to you . |
2 | A healthier-looking man I 've never seen , but — ’ |
3 | ‘ Well , that 's all right , since you 're the only man I 've ever wanted to be possessed by . |
4 | Stephen is the most fearless man I 've ever seen in battle . |
5 | He completed his art degree at the Berkshire College of Art — ‘ but , at the end , I found I had n't got any answers to my questions ’ — and went as a postgraduate to Reading University to study with Professor Anthony Betts , ‘ the only man I 've ever met who could really teach ’ . |
6 | He is the rudest , most arrogant man I 've ever met . |
7 | ‘ He is a terrible actor , nothing but a big bag of wind , the most unctuous man I 've ever met . ’ |
8 | You 're the most bigoted man I 've ever met . |
9 | You 're like every other man I 've ever met , you assume a woman who looks like me ca n't feel complete without a man , but , as a much wiser woman than I once said , a woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle . ’ |
10 | ‘ He 's the nicest young man I 've ever met . ’ |
11 | ‘ I think you must be the most irritating man I 've ever had the misfortune to meet ! |
12 | ‘ You are the most obstinate , stubborn , pigheaded man I 've ever had the misfortune to come across . ’ |
13 | I 've wished then that I could say honestly , ‘ But I did have a child of my own , a little boy by the only man I have truly loved . ’ |
14 | We soon roared away in a cloud of dust , shoulder to ribcage with the largest man I have ever seen in my life . |
15 | Dury , who says he has problems getting past the RSC doormen , but is ‘ persona grata in the Dirty Duck ’ , is the only man I have ever heard glottal-stop a dead language . |
16 | Custis endorsed this in a reply , ‘ … he is the most takeing faceitious man I have ever met with and I never was so much delighted with a stranger in all my life ’ . |
17 | But the enthusiasm , she had the Reverend Nicholson 's word for it , was ‘ as honest , as questing and as pious as m- any man I have ever met ’ . |
18 | And I believe the happiest man I have ever met . ’ |
19 | He said : ‘ I was ushered into the presence of the most charming man I have ever met . |
20 | He is the most unreasonable man I have ever encountered . |
21 | He was the only man I have ever known who once actually fell out of a hammock with laughing . |