Example sentences of "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 | If he had saved anything he would have changed character and would hardly have been the man she loved . |
| 3 | Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are . |
| 4 | ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey . |
| 5 | Look , Preston , if I understand my client correctly , you are the man he permitted to visit with a Miss Fraser ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're the man they sent up from Rome ? ’ she asked . |
| 7 | ‘ You may have memories of friendship with him , but I 'm the man you want . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And I 'm the man you 'll have tonight , when we reach Thailand ! ’ |
| 9 | I will be the man I was . |
| 10 | ‘ But he must be the man you 're after . |
| 11 | ‘ It may be the man you 've been waiting for , Master Benjamin , ’ she called across . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm supposed to be the man you 're deeply in love with , remember ? ’ |
| 13 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 14 | It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was . |
| 15 | Had she thought , though , that it would be the man she was there to meet , then Fabia would have been disappointed . |
| 16 | And Ecclestone , being the man he is , that is , a creature who understands straight talk and who despises hypocrites , understood at once . |
| 17 | For reasons which he could not reason — ( perhaps the place had seized his spirit ) — an undeniable cheeky lilt of carelessness , the rapture — long thought lost — of being the man he truly was , threatened to break through the ranks of plot , to disrupt the strategy for survival . |
| 18 | Nor , Ven being the man he was , did he waste any time in giving his thoughts an airing . |
| 19 | Some part of her still wanted to defend Luke Hunter , even though she was beginning to realise that he was far from being the man she thought she knew — the man she had let herself love . |
| 20 | ‘ You were the man she answered the door to , ’ he said glumly . |
| 21 | He is the man we would like . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I know exactly what I have to do and I also know that Nick is the man we all have to beat , ’ said Couples , as he contemplated a Christmas musing over the Masters . |
| 23 | Erm , his successor said , this is the man we 're going to loose . |
| 24 | World Champion Martin Hines is the man they want to beat . |
| 25 | However , Dunlop who has been setting the pace in the championship for most of the season and was successful at Tandragee , is the man they all have to beat . |
| 26 | Montana is the man they call Joe Cool , but beneath the calm exterior burns a fierce will to win — a fire stoked by the 49ers ' decision to part with the quarterback who lit the flames at Candlestick Park . |
| 27 | Montana is the man they call Joe Cool , but beneath the calm exterior burns a fierce will to win — a fire stoked by the 49ers ' decision to part with the quarterback who lit the flames at Candlestick Park . |
| 28 | This shows the plebeians that Brutus is the man they need to lead them as all his speech is honest and spoke truths and did everything unselfishly , for other people — the crowd then go wild with enthusiasm for Brutus , and Brutus leaves them with Mark Antony , wrongly , asking the crowd to show respect for Caesar 's body and for Antony 's speech . |
| 29 | There 's no other door , and the only person who uses that door is the man I 've just described to you . |
| 30 | When you hit the road this is the man you have to beat . |