Matui was, in what he did, perhaps the most competent man I had ever known.

It doesn't need magic and fine words, only a team of competent men with the right engines.

It was plain that the competent man and his wife were out.

There was a perfectly competent local man and she suggested that they use him.

He was a small dark man with short legs, brisk, competent, a little older than me.

In fact, he's the most competent man I've ever met.

But there is no profession in which a really competent man tries to understand women.

"Which is a bit much to expect one man, however competent, to handle alone."

For eight years now he had been a competent man in a good position that did not require much responsibility.

"I should have thought he was such a competent man."