Example sentences of "[adj] man was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course primitive man was a sun worshipper . |
| 2 | This man was a real cultural snob who quite destroyed me . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think this man was a cousin at all , indeed , I think you 've been harbouring a criminal from jail . ’ |
| 4 | Suragai had said that the race was called the Manchu and that this man was a good officer and an expert swordsman . |
| 5 | This man was a stranger and could not know her story , but the words accused her . |
| 6 | This man was a grim-faced stranger , his eyes cold with anger , like chips of blue ice . |
| 7 | This man was a power . |
| 8 | This man was a Southerner , in his heart , a Southern boy whom she could give up if she had to , whom she could forget . |
| 9 | Her mouth was opening and shutting ; she had the urge to run from the room ; but then , this man was a doctor . |
| 10 | After all , this man was a tycoon as well as a doctor ; he must be rolling in money . |
| 11 | Heavens , what a word l No , this man was no pickpocket . |
| 12 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
| 13 | Truly this man was the Son of God ( Mark 15:39 ; Matt. |
| 14 | This man was the firm 's intellectual . |
| 15 | This man was the opposite of Beuno , who followed her thoughts with ease , needed no explanations and leapt to no wrong conclusions . |
| 16 | Dana had sailed under a blue sky for too long to have any defence against storms , and this man was the worse kind of cyclone . |
| 17 | He knew darn well she , or rather Cara , was a journalist , Fabia thought crossly , all her vibes insisting that this man was the very same man she had come to interview . |
| 18 | He then goes on to say that after her death he loved her more than when she was alive — this leads us into a trap , for we begin to feel that the old man was a ghoulish sentimentalist . |
| 19 | The Old Man was a medieval carved head which formed the keystone of the door into the old school , formerly St. Paul 's Church . |
| 20 | There are old men still up there who say , ‘ Your old man was a wonderful five-eighth , but he used to come the knuckle . ’ |
| 21 | The old man was a cripple and in the last years of his life . |
| 22 | And you 're supposed to be down here finding out whether some crazy old man was a double . |
| 23 | ‘ The old man was a damn good listener when it suited him and he knew the right questions . |
| 24 | The old man was a cracked leather bottle trying to contain quicksilver . |
| 25 | This cool dark-suited man was a stranger . |
| 26 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 27 | This remarkable man was a loyal supporter of the BDDA all his life and none more worthy could have been chosen to hold the fort as President . |
| 28 | According to tribal legend , the first Nez Perce to encounter a white man was a woman called Watkuweis , meaning ‘ Returned from a Faraway Country ’ . |
| 29 | A spokesman for Tyne Tees Coastguards confirmed that the missing man was a member of Newbiggin lifeboat crew — one of the lifeboats taking part in the search off Whitby , North Yorkshire . |
| 30 | The key virtue was self-reliance ; the admirable man was the self-made man ; the goal was to be your own boss . |