Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was the [adj] man " in BNC.

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1 I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy .
2 Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee .
3 Oh no look it was the invisible man driving the car .
4 They 'd hardly believe it was the same man . ’
5 I guessed it was the bald man 's son .
6 ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house .
7 Police believe it was the same man .
8 Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life .
9 Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job .
10 ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson .
11 She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him .
12 Their swords rang together , and Riven knew he was the weaker man .
13 For a moment she was confused ; she thought it was the thin man , and she could n't work out how he 'd got behind them .
14 He thought he was the odd man out as far as nationality was concerned because everybody else , including me , was North American .
15 Everybody knew the blind fiddler and he had always his kilt on and But after a while , I do n't know , the next time he came round I mind he had trousers on and we did n't think he was the same man at all , no .
16 He did n't think it was the same man .
17 If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him .
18 Madonna said he was the sexiest man in the world .
19 She wanted to tell him that she had n't meant a word she had said , but if she did he would think she was hoping he was the rich man she had talked about .
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