Example sentences of "man who could be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mauve put himself out in all sorts of ways — a highly irritable man who could be expansively generous . |
| 2 | He was a man who could be honest with himself , and in honesty he could say that he was both pleased and relieved to be back at his desk on a grey Monday morning in London . |
| 3 | But if these were all roles he played , they were necessary ones ; they protected a man who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people . |
| 4 | ‘ So your next natural thought was that the only short fat man who could be mixed up in this shooting was me ? |
| 5 | Daniel , though his ferocious passion for his wife 's body included its swollen state , was not a man who could be brought to a close interest in this unseen life . |
| 6 | ‘ It seems my nephew is so besotted with your sister that he 's treated his parents with arrant discourtesy , walking away from the opportunity of meeting his father 's cousin who is flying in from the States — a man who could be influential in his future career . |
| 7 | She found herself wondering how often he thought of his lady friend in America , and feeling sorry for a man who could be such fun , but who spent so much of his time working . |
| 8 | In that election the candidate dropped out at the last minute and the only man who could be found to replace him was living in Zambia . |