Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought I was the man . |
| 2 | I 've been through hell , Rachel , believing you had the same problem as me , and I was the man you wanted to go to bed with but could n't stand personally . ’ |
| 3 | She leaned across the table to Wickham as if she were the man facing MacQuillan . |
| 4 | When he tried his hand at another murder and the proposed victim turned out to be a young Anglo-Prussian only just arrived in Vienna , it seemed likely you were the man . |
| 5 | ‘ You were the man she answered the door to , ’ he said glumly . |
| 6 | I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’ |
| 7 | Then she brought his lips against hers again and kissed him long and lasciviously as if she was the man and he the woman … |
| 8 | Then he learnt that she was the man 's daughter , and frivolous thoughts were swept away on a tide of sympathy . |
| 9 | For if it were the man himself would crumble . |
| 10 | It was the man 's own smell , and Frankie would have recognized it anywhere . |
| 11 | It was the man who had first joined in when Clive started on Nina . |
| 12 | It was the man who spoke . |
| 13 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 14 | The driver 's door was open and kneeling behind it was the man looking through binoculars . |
| 15 | It was the man in the grey suit who had tried to pick her up earlier . |
| 16 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 17 | I knew then that my end had come for surely it was the Man who had put the trap on the pole to catch me . |
| 18 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 19 | ‘ It was the man at the house the day Chris was buried . ’ |
| 20 | But it was the man who magnetically held her gaze … |
| 21 | It was the man who engaged the attention of Blind Hugh , one of the beggars on early duty at Pearl Dock . |
| 22 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 23 | I think it was the man with the beard . ’ |
| 24 | But his looks were only a part of it ; it was the man himself who drew her like a magnet , his mind , his character , his spirit , whatever made him him . |
| 25 | Tall , broad and muscular , hazel eyes under dark eyebrows , strong features in a tanned face — it was the man in the village street towards whom she had felt such a strange attraction . |
| 26 | It was the man Wright . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 28 | If Jess has attracted the lion 's share of publicity since his promotion to the national team , it was the man many believe will be his future Scotland partner , Ferguson , who caught the eye with a display of determined jumping and powerful running . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |