Example sentences of "the man [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Manuel Noriega , the man they failed to overthrow , is now turning his wrath to civilian opponents , saying he intends to present emergency legislation to purge the bureaucracy of ‘ treasonous ’ government employees who tacitly backed the uprising . |
| 2 | The man they hate to love |
| 3 | The man they follow was a fine storyteller himself by all accounts — and there is no question they have some very good basic material . ’ |
| 4 | Lima 's politicians may rue their election strategy of branding Fujimori , the son of Japanese immigrants , a ‘ foreigner ’ , for the Quechua-speaking majority in the Andean highlands , estranged from a state apparatus that functions in Spanish , sympathised with the man they nicknamed the ‘ Little Chinaman ’ . |
| 5 | A number of women have told me they voted for him because they felt sorry for him , because he was a trier , a bit of an underdog , because he was a hubby figure , the man they would most like to buy a pullover for , a man who knows where his slippers are . |
| 6 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 7 | Shortly after , the Watch Committee decided unanimously that Henry Peck was no longer the man they wanted for Chief Constable . |
| 8 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 9 | Thiercelin spoke to him again the following evening , when he reluctantly conceded that one of his colleagues could remember the man they were seeking . |
| 10 | The man they sought was already there , standing with his back to them , gazing at the great sarcophagus of Frederick III , first of the Hapsburgs to be Holy Roman Emperor . |
| 11 | Some widows in this position transform their lost husband in their minds into the man they wish he had been , and finally live at peace with a dream instead of in conflict with reality . |
| 12 | Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love . |
| 13 | MAKING TRACKS STREETS AHEAD Stephen Street When a record company needs a producer to nurture the talents of an up-and-coming guitar band , the man they turn to is Stephen Street . |
| 14 | For a while now the man they call the greatest living actor has seemed to be coasting . |
| 15 | The man they wanted was a New Zealand-born heroin tsar , sought in a dozen countries but slippery as an eel . |
| 16 | First off , the man they call the Houston Hunk left behind the photos of his holiday with Fergie . |
| 17 | The man they want is Nottingham Forest 's dynamic Irishman Roy Keane . |
| 18 | He had only twice before ever spoken to the man they called Sabbah . |
| 19 | The man they have in mind for national coach is Swansea coach Mike Ruddock . |
| 20 | MANCHESTER CITY can call off their wide-ranging search for a goalscorer — the man they want has been at the club all the time . |
| 21 | HARDMAN Basile Boli has already left his mark on England 's Psycho — and now he 's gunning for the man they call Attila . |
| 22 | The backbenchers were making the point yesterday that the Chancellor was not the man they blamed for the economic crisis . |
| 23 | The man they call Lurch was the villain of the piece after his uncharacteristic boob let in Oldham for an 85th minute equaliser . |
| 24 | Spurs will be skippered at the Dell by Neil Ruddock — the man they bought back from Southampton for £750,000 this summer . |
| 25 | ‘ Who 's the man they arrested for the throat-slitting ? ’ |
| 26 | It had been decided three people might overwhelm the man they were calling on . |
| 27 | Its occupant , the man they called ‘ Father ’ , was blown into a messy pulp , the corpse unrecognizable , the flesh embedded with pieces of metal . |
| 28 | The man they chose , John Frohnmayer , feels he managed to do at least that . |
| 29 | His about-face once in office pleased economists , but robbed him of his mandate : the voters no longer believed he was the man they had elected . |
| 30 | Between 1688 and 1714 monarchs had changed their ministers fairly frequently but they did not defy changes in public feeling and were always able to gain a majority in Parliament for the man they chose . |