Example sentences of "[art] [adj] man was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the 79-year-old man was the oldest man standing trial for murder this century was an extra ingredient of interest . |
| 2 | The key virtue was self-reliance ; the admirable man was the self-made man ; the goal was to be your own boss . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Old Man was a medieval carved head which formed the keystone of the door into the old school , formerly St. Paul 's Church . |
| 5 | The old man was a cripple and in the last years of his life . |
| 6 | ‘ The old man was a damn good listener when it suited him and he knew the right questions . |
| 7 | The old man was a cracked leather bottle trying to contain quicksilver . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hearing that the young man was the only son of a gentleman of wealth , the money-lender begged of him never to hesitate in coming to him again whenever he stood in need of a ‘ friend ’ . |
| 10 | The young man was the star of his own story . |
| 11 | The young man was an obvious don . |
| 12 | ( The young man was an Austrian of half-Jewish descent called Ludwig Wittgenstein , see chapter seven . ) |
| 13 | The best man was a fellow journalist Peter Shephard , and a third journalist , John Cosslett , was one of the ushers . |
| 14 | The new man was a Danuese , Monsignor Teixeira . |
| 15 | The second man from the left to the right is his home was , the third man was a gunner and his name is his home town was Stirling Nebraska and he was the oldest man on the crew . |
| 16 | The third man was the one who held the Marshal 's attention . |
| 17 | The unknown man was a first-rate orator — Manescu recognized that . |
| 18 | It was the conclusion of the police that the dead man was a practitioner of some obscure religion . |
| 19 | His servant came to pack his clothes , and while he was doing this , he told Dorian that the dead man was a sailor , but no one knew his name . |
| 20 | Now the dead man was a centre of attention for the experts . |
| 21 | According to tribal legend , the first Nez Perce to encounter a white man was a woman called Watkuweis , meaning ‘ Returned from a Faraway Country ’ . |
| 22 | A one-armed man was no use . |