Example sentences of "the [num] man [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one man who , more than any other , has been the inspiration behind the fictional ( and ‘ factional ’ ) portrayal of bacteriologists is Paul de Kruif . |
| 2 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 3 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 4 | There will be at least two of them , but even if they know each other they wo n't know anybody else except the one man who took them on and will eventually pay them . |
| 5 | Second , it is God himself who not only speaks but also hears that ‘ No ’ in the person of the one man who does not deserve to hear it , the righteous one who stands in the place of the unrighteous . |
| 6 | As Graham Fearnley said , the one man who certainly wo n't come out ahead in the end will be Harley . ’ |
| 7 | Benson was bowled by James — reward for an accurate and economic spell — and Hooper , the one man who surely could have swung things Kent 's way , was bowled by Udal off his pads . |
| 8 | The one man who did know was the Prince of Wales . |
| 9 | The brutal death of Duke John inevitably pushed Philip , his son and successor , onto the side of the one man who could help him . |
| 10 | She had walked only about two miles when she saw , coming towards her , the one man who she did not wish to see . |
| 11 | Whether Boswell means this sincerely , or as sleight-of-hand to deflect people from calling him a mere snob , must be measured against the remarkable and immortal results of his association with the one man who allowed him to share his company relentlessly . |
| 12 | He was the one man who had loved her purely , and who believed in her as pure . |
| 13 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 14 | For a few moments she imagined the scene as dark-suited managers with grim faces waited with bated breath for the one man who could step in and save the company … |
| 15 | I knew from Rex that his work in Swindon had mystified his contemporaries , so , when you turned up , the one man who might know all about it , it seemed an opportunity too good to miss . ’ |
| 16 | She had vaguely noticed Adele 's startled , anxious face , before she was shoved roughly across the threshold of Matilda 's chamber to be confronted by the Empress , the Sheriff and the one man who thought Matilda could do no wrong — Brien fitzCount , Lord of Wallingford , who , except for her half-brother , was the Empress 's most devoted follower and , some said , her lover . |
| 17 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 18 | Gould was with the one man who could introduce him most convincingly to the alliances between geography and the native flora and fauna of the continent . |
| 19 | The rugged David McIvor — at No8 on the Scottish scrum feed but on the flank on France 's — was the one man who showed any real propensity for knocking men back in the tackle . |