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Example sentences for "man like"

  • Why the devil do you stop with a man like Wingrave?

  • Mr. Aynesworth," she said, "are you so poor that you must serve a man like that?

  • You do not understand a man like Wingrave," she declared.

  • She saw coming up the road a man like Mr. Boldwood.

  • Inward melancholy it was impossible for a man like Oak, introspective far beyond his neighbours, to banish quite, whilst conning the present.

  • It is an unusually good one for a man like me to possess.

  • It's a dreadful end; it's a terrible end for a man like me.

  • A trying night for a man like me to walk in!

  • But it isn't the custom nowadays for a lawyer to deal that way with a man like Galloway.

  • And they rattle on to beat the band when they get a chance at a man like you.

  • She is a fine handsome piece--just the sort to fill the position of wife to a man like you.

  • Oh, they're such pitifully easy game for a man like you.

  • They asked Owen if he expected a man like that to work for nothing!

  • How could they expect a man like that to exist on a paltry fifteen pounds a week?

  • And he was very sure that the testimony of the clergy of all denominations was more to be relied upon than the opinion of a man like Dr Weakling.

  • Owen was very satisfied with this arrangement, for he was always ill at ease when conversing with a man like Sweater, who spoke in an offensively patronizing way and expected common people to kowtow to and 'Sir' him at every second word.

  • Why should she think of a man like you, when she has so much better fish to fry?

  • I had had my suspicions that Paul Lessingham was more with Marjorie than he had any right to be, but I had never supposed that she could see anything desirable in a stick of a man like that.

  • No natural illness I ever heard of, takes hold of a man like this.

  • Its presence there was odd,--after what we had been talking about it might seem to need explanation; but it was absurd to suppose that that alone could have had such an effect on a man like Lessingham.

  • A man like Rowsley, still feeling the world before him, as a man of his energies and aptitudes, her humour added in the tide of his anxieties, had a right to feel, would not fall upon resignation like a woman.

  • It's creditable to her, only she can't understand the claims of the family upon a man like my brother.

  • The value of a man like Henry, on such an occasion, is what you can have no conception of; so you must take it upon my word to be inestimable.

  • How dare you monopolize a man like Mr. Bocqueraz for the whole supper dance!

  • And the ghost of a man like me, turning the lock of the door on him!

  • It was a perfect godsend to meet with a man like Midwinter--a man who was not cut out on the regular local pattern, and whose way in the world had the one great merit (in those parts) of being a way of his own.

  • The ghost of a man like you, drowning in the cabin!

  • A man like Rambaud, remote, conservative, constructive, saw the place of a woman like Aileen in the life of a man like Cowperwood on the instant.

  • Now he had a real fighter behind him--a man like himself.

  • Lacking the commanding magnetism of a man like MacDonald, he was nevertheless an honest man, well-intentioned, thoughtful, careful.

  • It was just possible that she could come to love a man like this, although it would be hard.

  • If he were a man like my father, I should never dream of going against him; I should in fact leave everything to him he cared to attend to.

  • An' it was a man like you 'at sae near lost yer life for the hizzy!

  • But for your own sake--just consider:--what will people say if you show any preference for a man like that?

  • To ca' a man like mine a heepocreet 'cause he wadna procleem till a haul market ilka secret fau't o' the horse he had to sell!

  • It may be that a man like Ibsen in Norway or a man like Gorky in Russia are the only people left who have so much faith that they can really believe in scepticism.

  • Such a hint was quite enough for a man like Hilary, whose delicacy, sense of the ridiculous, and peculiar faculty of starting back and retiring into himself, put the need of anything further out of the question.

  • What should I want him for--a man like that?

  • I've no patience with a low class o' man like that!

  • I have known you only a few minutes; but it does not take long to appreciate a man like you, and, frankly, you inspire me with great interest.

  • But there are certain things that my delicacy compels me to point out to you, which I do frankly, feeling certain that a man like you is not the slave of narrow prejudices.

  • He dares to propose such women to a man like you!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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