Example sentences of "man [pron] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , I have reason to believe that she told her young man I was a history teacher in a modest direct grant school . |
| 2 | Then , wryly : ‘ There may have been another reason ; even as a young man I was a staid sort of chap and they were a bit wild at times . |
| 3 | Aged 34 , Mr Gates is bright , opinionated , decisive and every bit as sure of himself as one would expect from a man who was a billionaire by the age of 30 . |
| 4 | Why would anyone want to go and see a man who was a coward ? |
| 5 | Dot realized she 'd already left to visit the man who was a gutless jink . |
| 6 | Jennings asks : ‘ How can a man who was a fascist run an organisation which is supposed to be non-discriminatory ? ’ |
| 7 | Long was a choleric , short-tempered man who was a constant trial to colleagues in opposition or in power . |
| 8 | The man who was a doctor turned to me and said quietly , ‘ Listen . |
| 9 | It concerns a man who was a friend of mine . |
| 10 | It is a wonderful example of learned eloquence considering the problems associated with writing poetry and spiritual expression as befits a man who was a Cambridge University Praelector in Rhetoric and University Orator . |
| 11 | A 21 year old athletic man who was a painter and had a history of good health was admitted to hospital with suspected ulcerative colitis . |
| 12 | Another man who was a passenger in the car has head injuries . |
| 13 | It was too dear to her to take on ‘ the degraded position of a woman who had forsaken husband and child and formed a union with her lover … she would always be a guilty woman continually threatened with exposure , deceiving her husband for the sake of a shameful union with a man who was a stranger and independent of her , and with whom she could not live a united life . |
| 14 | I went to New York in the 60s and I had a funny experience with a man who was an unknown at the time , a new young comic called Woody Allen . |
| 15 | After keeping an eye on several possible candidates who were working in local shops , I finally selected a young man who was an assistant at a fruiterer 's in Kensington . |
| 16 | ‘ People think I am a natural , but everything I 've achieved I 've worked at , ’ says the man who was the league 's MVP in 1987 and the Super Bowl MVP the following season . |
| 17 | The kid from East Ham who wandered nonchalantly into Vogue studios , discovered Jean Shrimpton and transformed the concept of British photography ; the man who was the inspiration for Antonioni 's Blow Up ; the man who married Catherine Deneuve , Marie Helvin and Catherine Dyer , and lived with Penelope Tree and Jean Shrimpton ; the man who created some of the most memorable images of the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 18 | The second factor is the personality of the man who was the Leningraders ' ‘ permanent director ’ from 1938 until his death 50 years later . |
| 19 | The Executive elected at that Conference was packed with diehards , and " a debate on cooperation against Labour revealed the depth of division : a motion calling for closer collaboration met strong opposition , but so did one calling simply for a Unionist government : They must turn out the man who was the greatest danger to the Conservative Party " , ( a voice — " Lloyd George " ) . |
| 20 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 21 | The man who was the driving force behind bringing them to Britain for surgery was Sir Jimmy Savile . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ It is ludicrous that a man who was the centre of a police investigation should be allowed to sit in judgment against honest men who were following their conscience . ’ |
| 23 | No he was a he was a rotten sly man there was no question about it . |
| 24 | CLEARING up after a volcano may sound like a nightmare , but for one man it was a dream come true . |
| 25 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 26 | Now that he was a man he was no more capable of working unsupervised than when he had first come to the farm at the age of twelve . |
| 27 | As a young man he was a charming and lively companion , and it was said of him that ‘ a person more invariably gentle , kind , considerate and affectionate , did not exist . ’ |
| 28 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
| 29 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
| 30 | But h he was n't a dishonest man he was a very honest man . |