Example sentences of "[pron] be the man [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 2 | ‘ You may have memories of friendship with him , but I 'm the man you want . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'm the man you 'll have tonight , when we reach Thailand ! ’ |
| 4 | I 've been through hell , Rachel , believing you had the same problem as me , and I was the man you wanted to go to bed with but could n't stand personally . ’ |
| 5 | Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are . |
| 6 | ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey . |
| 7 | Look , Preston , if I understand my client correctly , you are the man he permitted to visit with a Miss Fraser ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 're the man they sent up from Rome ? ’ she asked . |
| 9 | ‘ You were the man she answered the door to , ’ he said glumly . |
| 10 | ‘ Who 's the man they arrested for the throat-slitting ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Who — who is the man you tease ? ’ |
| 12 | " Look , Chuck , there 's the man we met on the boulevard tonight . " |
| 13 | And , while she was staring at him thunderstruck , ‘ I never know whether it 's the man you congratulate or the woman , but anyway , I 'm dead chuffed about your engagement . ’ |
| 14 | He is the man we would like . ’ |
| 15 | He is the man you love — but he is not the King ! ’ |
| 16 | Palace chairman Ron Noades admitted : ‘ He 's the man we want to replace Ian Wright . ’ |
| 17 | Mark Lawrenson 41 per cent … he 's the man you want … |
| 18 | He 's the man I was fighting when the soldiers found me on the marshes , Pip . |
| 19 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He did so well he has since won three England caps as a midfielder and Liverpool decided he was the man they wanted , although they have tried him back in his striking role in recent games . |
| 22 | And I still do n't know if he was the man I saw outlined on Harriet 's blind . |
| 23 | ‘ He was the man I saw . ’ |
| 24 | He was the man she wanted to be with for the rest of her life and she was willing to jump through any hoop and over any hurdle to win him . |
| 25 | He was the man she loved , and she felt as if she were floating above the ground . |
| 26 | He was the man she had seen all those years before . |
| 27 | He was the man she had prayed that one day she would marry . |