Example sentences of "man he " in BNC.

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1 Dyer 's doings are the same as but also different from those investigated by the fretful man he resembles , just as Hawksmoor 's investigative Scotland Yard is the same as but also different from the architects ' department of that name attended by Dyer .
2 Here they gave poetry readings in the 800-seat auditorium ; a measure of the man he was becoming and of the distinguished company he kept .
3 But is Yasser Arafat a man he can trust ?
4 One of those who wants the young Pakistani punished is none other than the man he so narrowly beat 10-15 , 6-15 , 15-4 , 15-11 , 15-10 in the final , Chris Dittmar .
5 Lord Joseph has been interested in the causes of poverty for a long time : as a young man he joined the Howard League for Penal Reform as well as a Quaker group which busied itself about improving the social conditions of the poor .
6 And just a few weeks ago the man he found , Deputy Prime Minister Leszek Balcerowicz electrified the finance ministers of the developed world with a seven-page plan to ‘ transform the Polish economy into a market economy ’ .
7 The 25-year-old from New Orleans spent much of the season in the shadow of Kevin Mitchell , the man he followed in the Giants ' batting line-up and the leader in home runs and RBIs in the majors .
8 In particular , as an old union man he was thought to have a particularly sensitive , almost intuitive , understanding of the unions and how best to sell a policy of wage restraint to them .
9 In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv .
10 As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had .
11 Two years ago he got married to a Miss Lilian Bardsley , sister of the man he 's in business with .
12 He was strongly tempted to stay on the train and take his chance but remembering the man he had seen the Railway Police arrest he got off at Lichtenberg and bought a ticket at the machine .
13 What a really charming young man he is . ’
14 He is not impressed by the Prince because of who he is , but because of the man he is : because of his gift for talking to people , his tenacity and his courage in confronting problems that other men would shy away from .
15 When Adeane left , Charles had definite ideas about the sort of man he wanted to replace him , but it was six months before the right man could be found .
16 The judges also allowed an application by PC Russell Cherry , charged with wounding a man he arrested during the dispute , for an order quashing a decision by another Bow Street magistrate , Mr Geoffrey Wicks , to proceed with his committal .
17 He is known to have been angry last autumn when Mr Mazowiecki , the man he picked for prime minister , chose his cabinet without consulting him .
18 His fiercer critics argue that from November 8th , when he announced a doubling of American troops in Saudi Arabia , Mr Bush was obsessed with the need for war against the man he had demonised .
19 In effect , Mr Mulroney is asking the man he supplanted as Conservative prime minister to complete the job which , after last year 's fiasco about the Meech Lake constitutional reform package , he himself has no longer the credibility to perform .
20 ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey .
21 After all , he was better-looking than any man he had ever come across .
22 Watching him speak , and seeing the man he was , I realized the distress that allowed him to reveal his feelings to me .
23 Looking like a scholarly Foreign Office man he took the hard-selling American advertising world of those days aback by the very stealth of his approach .
24 The man he described as ‘ the top Russian espionage agent in the United States — Alger Hiss 's boss ’ turned out to be a blameless university professor and China expert , Owen Lattimore , but it did not matter .
25 As a con man he knew that paradoxically part of his appeal was his unsavouriness , so unlike the smooth Washington types with silver spoons in their mouths .
26 What a lonely man he is , she thought .
27 How much of this delightfully frank list of requirements the Earl passed on to the man he approached for the job of chairman , the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark ( Winchester and Oxford ) , is not recorded .
28 Before his arrival she endeavoured to prepare herself for all exigencies , but this was difficult to do because she had no idea what sort of a man he was going to be .
29 ‘ Penini knows I think it good that he is considerate and sensitive — he has been brought up to see no merit in violence , and when he is a man he will be as his father , entirely lacking in those so-called manly virtues of domination and arrogance towards women . ’
30 Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her .
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