Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Useless for Boswell to point out that notwithstanding the title ‘ Doctor ’ , physick did not belong in Johnson 's otherwise comprehensive repertoire , and here it was that the landlord made a distinction which so pleased Johnson : ‘ They say he is the greatest man in England , except Lord Mansfield . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's always said I 'm the perfect man for long- ball football , but I can play anywhere you want me to . |
| 3 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 4 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 5 | I 've always said he 's the best man for the job . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’ |
| 7 | Our father thinks you are the best man to carry out the task which is before us , and so you have our support , whatever you decide . ’ |
| 8 | Oh no look it was the invisible man driving the car . |
| 9 | They 'd hardly believe it was the same man . ’ |
| 10 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not a question of whether I feel I 'm the best man for the job . |
| 12 | I suppose you 're the top man ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 14 | Police believe it was the same man . |
| 15 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 16 | Do you reckon it 's the same man ? |
| 17 | Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 19 | She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him . |
| 20 | Their swords rang together , and Riven knew he was the weaker man . |
| 21 | For a moment she was confused ; she thought it was the thin man , and she could n't work out how he 'd got behind them . |
| 22 | He thought he was the odd man out as far as nationality was concerned because everybody else , including me , was North American . |
| 23 | Everybody knew the blind fiddler and he had always his kilt on and But after a while , I do n't know , the next time he came round I mind he had trousers on and we did n't think he was the same man at all , no . |
| 24 | He did n't think it was the same man . |
| 25 | Yet further fumblings by Mr Major could haul Mr Clarke to the top job much earlier than that ‘ one more year ’ which , by Tory consensus , is now Mr Major 's time-limit for proving he is the right man to lead the country . |
| 26 | Just when I think you 're the kindest man in the world you suddenly get the glooms again . |
| 27 | I think you are the boldest man I ever met with , but sir , surely you ought to know that you are not now in the Haymarket . |
| 28 | ‘ It is leap year and I lost no time in popping the question as I think he is the right man to lead Claro and Grindlewood Park into the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I think it 's the same man , ’ Bodo said . |
| 30 | If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him . |