Example sentences of "[be] a man [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come |
| 2 | You 're a man who keeps his eyes open , a man aware of things . |
| 3 | And when they were all assembled , he went out unto them , to a place which was made ready with carpets and with mats , and he made them take their seats before him full honourably , and began to speak unto them , saying , I am a man who have never possessed a kingdom , neither I nor any man of my lineage . |
| 4 | I am a man who should have children . |
| 5 | I am a man who needs his sleep . |
| 6 | I am a man who destroys the women he lives with . |
| 7 | ‘ I am a man who is six foot one inch tall . |
| 8 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 9 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
| 10 | All my life I have been a man who scorned distraction ! |
| 11 | If she had been a man she would not have had to drive round , she would have simply gone the wrong way and got there sooner . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel you are a man I can talk to — knowing that whatever I say wo n't go any further . ’ |
| 13 | Two of the most successful television hosts are a man who used to call himself Joan Collins Fan Club and wears skirts that show his bare buttocks ( Julian Clary ) , and the other is a post-panto Dame ( Edna ) in diamante spectacles and aurora frocks . |
| 14 | The judge took a dim view of all this and told Howard , ‘ You are a man who drinks vast quantities every night . |
| 15 | Whatever your race or class , if you are a man you are irredeemably the enemy . |
| 16 | I 'm a man myself , ha ? |
| 17 | He is so young and innocent ; although he pretends to be a man he is still only a schoolboy . |
| 18 | On this level of mere temperamental affinity ( not considering its truth or falsehood ) we feel Lewis to be a man who would be most happy in Christian garb . |
| 19 | On the strength of this exchange , Lewis realized that Havard would be a man who would enjoy meeting some of the people who had taken to dropping into his rooms at Magdalen on Thursday evenings . |
| 20 | He was popularly supposed to be a man who not only told the truth , but who could not tell a lie , and the senator 's aides and publicists were not unhappy to promulgate that echo of a previous President 's virtues . |
| 21 | He is thought to be a man who is going to increase taxes , not one who is cutting the deficit . |
| 22 | And he would be a man who would not try to trample on her . |
| 23 | Then suddenly a demoniacal light had entered his eyes and , since he seemed to be a man who would set about proving his own theories — in this case that it was inconceivable that she should be as innocent as she would appear — he took a couple of steps forward and reached for her . |
| 24 | He had seemed to be a man who knew his way around . |
| 25 | In fact you wo n't get any sexually mature erm er woman to have er any relationship with men , unofficial or otherwise if you 're not initiated because they 'll just say you 're a boy and , and er and er an adult woman would feel it was demeaning you know to sleep with a mere boy , she 'd insist you 've got to be a man and to be a man you normally got to be initiated and that normally means being circumcised . |
| 26 | An example of this differential sentencing policy was reported in the Guardian 18 August , 1980 , which quoted a male judge , who told a female defendant , ‘ If you were a man I would send you to prison without hesitation ’ . |
| 27 | If I were a man I 'd tell me to get lost — and fast ! |
| 28 | If an observer interprets a piece of animal behaviour as either aggressive or altruistic he is , in effect , saying : " If that creature were a man I should describe his behaviour as aggressive or altruistic as the case may be . " |
| 29 | If I were a man you would n't dare do this ! ’ |
| 30 | He said you were a man who was good at his work . |