Example sentences of "[art] man [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The players will be keen to get their season on the East Region circuit off to a good start in the 36 hole Senate Charity Open which starts tomorrow , and the man they will all be out to beat is European Tour regular Paul Curry . |
| 3 | He is the man we would like . ’ |
| 4 | I projected the child 's face into his own vanished future and attempted to see the man he would have become , the man I intend to find . ’ |
| 5 | The man he would n't have a use for is now lending a hand . ’ |
| 6 | He grimaced and raised his hands in self-defence , a little of his dark mood dropping away , giving her a glimpse of the man he could be if he were n't so concerned for his sister . |
| 7 | ‘ And I 'm the man you 'll have tonight , when we reach Thailand ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He is not — well , he is perhaps not the man you would expect . |
| 9 | Louis Malle is not the man you would choose to overcome these difficulties . |
| 10 | The man you may rely |
| 11 | ‘ You know the man you ought to get for this sort of programme ? ’ he suggested . |
| 12 | Election Focus : Labour Boyo Tactics James Langton watches the remarkable transformation of Neil the Wild Man of the Valleys into Kinnock the Man You Can Trust , a figure of international standing who expects the key to Number 10 |
| 13 | Now it was the turn of the international statesman , the Man You Can Trust , settling back in his leather swivel chair , the body language just right , hands folded and head tilted the better to address the serious issues . |
| 14 | Treat that right , and it will bless your life and ennoble it , and make you ten times , yes , a hundred times , the man you could ever be without it … |
| 15 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |
| 16 | It was Bunny , my old mate , me auld mucker , my pal , the man I would trust with … with … well , he 'd have to do . |
| 17 | ‘ And if you promise just one more thing — not to do anything to hurt the man I can never leave . ’ |
| 18 | The batellis and the man I will describe , |
| 19 | The man I will marry and the places I will live in and get to know . |
| 20 | To see the man I must put my faith in . |
| 21 | It 's always been on my mind — I suppose it always will — and I 've always said that if I got the opportunity to kill the man I 'd do it , and I would take the consequences . |
| 22 | This was the man she would follow if he merely smiled . |
| 23 | This was Silas Wilder — the man she 'd come to see ? |
| 24 | During the Archbishopric of San Carlo Borromeo , a man we shall meet several times on our walks around Milan , the Nail was processed around the city at the height of an outbreak of plague , with immediate results . |
| 25 | Rightly or wrongly , the Tories evidently see Birt as ‘ a man we can do business with ’ . |
| 26 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 27 | This is a man they could n't put down — Arnold Schwarzenegger in ‘ The Terminator ’ … the guy in the white hat in ‘ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . ’ |
| 28 | No , if they want to flush him out of hiding , there 's hardly a man they could use but Hotspur . ’ |
| 29 | Bonnie Prince Charlie had a price of thirty thousand pounds on his head when he was being ferried hither and yon across many isles and sea-lochs of the Hebrides , and yet , and yet — the people of the west , such as Flora Macdonald and Malcolm Macleod of Raasay , risked their lives for a man they must have known in their hearts was a lost cause . |
| 30 | An example of this differential sentencing policy was reported in the Guardian 18 August , 1980 , which quoted a male judge , who told a female defendant , ‘ If you were a man I would send you to prison without hesitation ’ . |