Example sentences of "n't the man " in BNC.

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1 But he certainly was n't the man to have in the driving seat on the union side when both management and workers were striving for the sheer survival of the company , and needed to work together if they were to pull through .
2 Did n't the man care about that possibility ?
3 Did n't the man know ?
4 Why does n't the man leave his sheep in that field ? ’
5 This was no reincarnation of some centuries-gone swashbuckling master-mariner , but even so — surely this was n't the man she 'd agreed to work with for the next few weeks ?
6 Could n't the man have brought them up ?
7 Disappointment that Feargal was n't the man she had thought him had been replaced by a sadness for things not to be .
8 Why had n't the man left a sconce burning ?
9 But I have to say that at that time I still did n't know , I had a good idea , that it was n't the man we were looking for but therefore he was still arrested and he was arrested on sus well for harbouring an escapee .
10 ‘ I 'll be glad to get to know them all , even if he is n't the man I once knew .
11 Did n't din did n't the man that came to collect the pools last night tell you ?
12 It was n't the man 's fault really of Shell , it was another car really that caused the
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