Example sentences of "have been a [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that stage , Sunderland were good value for the lead and Mr Crosby must have been a contented man . |
| 2 | Had he known that four Pakis were resting their dark arses on his deep leather seats , ready to be driven by his daughter , who had only recently been fucked by one of them , he would n't have been a contented man . |
| 3 | Wihtred was in his sixth regnal year in April 697 ( CS 96 : S 18 ) , so he secured the kingship either early in 692 or after April 691 , when he will have been a young man of about 20 . |
| 4 | George 's grandfather must have been a smaller man than George , for the brown livery was stretched across the shoulders and the boy 's long wrists showed below the sleeve . |
| 5 | He must have been a remarkable man , because when his aircraft was shot down he lost his right hand but before many months had passed he was back on his squadron with a hook on his right arm , and although I am not one hundred percent sure of my facts here , I believe he went back on operations as a navigator or air gunner . |
| 6 | I think , when I think it since , I think he must have been a remarkable man to work and slave like that . |
| 7 | He could have been a handsome man . |
| 8 | James Pegg should have been a happy man , for he was with Alfred and unaccompanied by Alice . |
| 9 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 10 | Brampton may have been a quiet man but I can not imagine him allowing anyone to hustle him upstairs in a house full of people , tie a noose round his neck and hang him . |
| 11 | You would have been a brave man to accuse them of it . |
| 12 | John Piper may have been a foolish man in many ways but he was always friendly and generous to all classes of people . |
| 13 | I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise . |
| 14 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |