Example sentences of "[verb] he was the [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 5 | Their swords rang together , and Riven knew he was the weaker man . |
| 6 | He thought he was the odd man out as far as nationality was concerned because everybody else , including me , was North American . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Madonna said he was the sexiest man in the world . |
| 10 | 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 . |