Example sentences of "have been man " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the team 's player/manager he may have been man of the match but even our ebullient was eclipsed by . |
| 2 | Nick Simmons , manager of the AA Roadwatch nerve centre at Stanmore , Middlesex , hastily pointed out yesterday that those who drew the short straw for Christmas duty could just as easily have been men . |
| 3 | To go on with , in the former days , between the Great War and the Second World War , there would never have been men working on cars in the street , as if the place were a communal garage . |
| 4 | But some of them will have been men who lived permanently within their lord 's gates , his closest companions , who , after several years ' service , might hope to be rewarded with fiefs . |
| 5 | I think the players would have been men enough to tell me to my face . |