Example sentences of "was the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plainly the man who wrote this was the man who in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley took as his model and master Gautier , who described himself proudly as a man ‘ pour qui le monde visible existe ’ . |
| 2 | FACIAL expressions made it difficult to guess who was the man on a working honeymoon here yesterday . |
| 3 | Lucas knew Lord Halifax from his university days and now wrote to tell him that Ramsey was the man whom the diocese wanted as its bishop , and hoped that Halifax would do what he could with Winston Churchill . |
| 4 | Charles had said he wanted a practical farmer on the council who knew something about estate management , and John Higgs was the man found for the job . |
| 5 | Whereas Bob Dwyer , the Australian coach , was the man being criticised and under pressure before the Strasbourg match for lack of success and for Randwick club favouritism , he has been able to announce an unchanged team . |
| 6 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 7 | There was the man Jinny had seen before , with the cold blue eyes that almost made her shudder as she met them again , and there was a boy . |
| 8 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 9 | Then she brought his lips against hers again and kissed him long and lasciviously as if she was the man and he the woman … |
| 10 | He was the man who had started the race for thermonuclear superiority or , if you looked at it another way , prevented America from attaining such superiority . |
| 11 | It was the man 's own smell , and Frankie would have recognized it anywhere . |
| 12 | Here was the man who could answer all those questions Leila was so vague about . |
| 13 | At Kylie 's side for that crucial trip was the man her father Ron had chosen to oversee her career . |
| 14 | ‘ But at least you had the sense to realise Charsky 's performance on the Neva embankment was a dream , and that he was the man in bed with Anna . |
| 15 | This was the man whom Mary of Guise described to Sadler as ‘ a simple and the most inconstant man in the world ; for whatsoever he determineth today , he changeth tomorrow ’ ; and there were plenty of people in Scotland to help him to change from his position of March 1543 . |
| 16 | There was the man who had trained his dog to bite Arabs , and who informed us that a dog always knows an Arab by his stink . |
| 17 | This time Fallon was the man over and he took Guscott 's pass to score his second try . |
| 18 | Derek Stone , 53 , a builder from Catford , was the man who signed up Mr Major to the Tory Party when he was chairman of the Brixton Young Conservatives in the early 60s . |
| 19 | Goodman incorrectly thought he was the man to go off but Sunderland fans were soon relieved when he stayed on the pitch . |
| 20 | It was the man who had first joined in when Clive started on Nina . |
| 21 | The Modigliani that Germaine described was the man that so many women admired : fascinating , intelligent , with beautiful manners . |
| 22 | At Madame 's right hand , on the stool next to her , hardly ever talking to her but always right there beside her , was the man that we all called O. I deliberately have n't told you about him yet . |
| 23 | Was the man losing control ? |
| 24 | It was the man who spoke . |
| 25 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 26 | Chapman did n't want Oldham to know that Taylor was the man he was after in case they refused to part with him . |
| 27 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 28 | Probably this was the man . |
| 29 | Yakovlev was the man 's name ; even now he could see the look of surprise on his face as the sword entered his body . |
| 30 | Palace fans of 1964–1973 owed a great deal to Dick Graham , who was the man who brought Palace back to the ‘ big-time ’ after years of obscurity , and who gave Palace the opportunity ( so admirably taken by Graham 's successor , Bert Head ) of achieving the dream of everyone connected with the Palace club — a place in Division One . |