Example sentences of "this man was [art] " in BNC.

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1 This man was a real cultural snob who quite destroyed me .
2 ‘ I do n't think this man was a cousin at all , indeed , I think you 've been harbouring a criminal from jail . ’
3 Suragai had said that the race was called the Manchu and that this man was a good officer and an expert swordsman .
4 This man was a stranger and could not know her story , but the words accused her .
5 This man was a grim-faced stranger , his eyes cold with anger , like chips of blue ice .
6 This man was a power .
7 This man was a Southerner , in his heart , a Southern boy whom she could give up if she had to , whom she could forget .
8 Her mouth was opening and shutting ; she had the urge to run from the room ; but then , this man was a doctor .
9 After all , this man was a tycoon as well as a doctor ; he must be rolling in money .
10 Heavens , what a word l No , this man was no pickpocket .
11 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 .
12 Truly this man was the Son of God ( Mark 15:39 ; Matt.
13 This man was the firm 's intellectual .
14 This man was the opposite of Beuno , who followed her thoughts with ease , needed no explanations and leapt to no wrong conclusions .
15 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 .
16 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 .
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