Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] man was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This young man was a bull looking for a china shop . |
| 3 | ‘ If we make comparisons , Montgomery was a staff captain when this young man was a brigadier general . |
| 4 | Durkheim , Claudia 's inspiration , said at the beginning of the century that the problem for twentieth-century western man was the anomie created by the breakdown of the old certainties . |
| 5 | This cool dark-suited man was a stranger . |
| 6 | Maybe this big black-haired man was a policeman ? |
| 7 | And you 're supposed to be down here finding out whether some crazy old man was a double . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That young man was the sort to fly high , having cut his teeth so to speak , on — what was it ? |