Example sentences of "be the man he " 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 ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey .
3 Look , Preston , if I understand my client correctly , you are the man he permitted to visit with a Miss Fraser ? ’
4 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 .
5 It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was .
6 And Ecclestone , being the man he is , that is , a creature who understands straight talk and who despises hypocrites , understood at once .
7 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 .
8 Nor , Ven being the man he was , did he waste any time in giving his thoughts an airing .
9 Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points .
10 Baker is the man he is trying to displace and he already has 306,209 points .
11 That 's the man he is , ’ said Adam abruptly , and strode before them at a furious pace towards the guest-house , pursued by the pain he could not outdistance .
12 Chapman did n't want Oldham to know that Taylor was the man he was after in case they refused to part with him .
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