Example sentences of "would [be] the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Macrobius would be the man to try ‘ etc ) This is certainly how dons talk in the novels of Dorothy L. Sayers . |
| 2 | Even in those early years , when honest old men were tossing out such useful snippets of information as ‘ Macrobius would be the man ’ , the college did not provide soulmates of the kind Lewis always craved . |
| 3 | He is an experienced , professional negotiator and if both sides agree to arbitration then he would be the man involved . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And Den would be the man who 'd know about horses . ’ |
| 5 | If I had to choose one man to kick a 40-yard penalty from close to the touchline to rescue The Earth from being knocked out of the Inter-Galactic Cup in the last minute , Grant Fox would be the man … |
| 6 | He would get himself a job , and he would be the man his mammy had always hoped he would be . |
| 7 | Though the marriage had been arranged , Nephthys would be the man 's first wife , and he was near her own age . |
| 8 | Not even Adams could believe that Linighan , felled and battered by a 19th minute elbow in the face from Wednesday 's Mark Bright , would be the man to provide perhaps the most fantastic finish to a four-hour saga which had been marked mostly by wretched mediocrity . |
| 9 | It 's likely the first life would be the man . |
| 10 | Had she thought , though , that it would be the man she was there to meet , then Fabia would have been disappointed . |