Example sentences of "[verb] men [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hunt men make more interesting , ’ he said , with a smile . |
| 2 | We order you to cause the said oaks to be delivered to him in the place which is most suitable for transporting them , and to assist him to find men to cut them down and carry them , at our expense . |
| 3 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 4 | She was surrounded by this golden aura which stopped men going any further , whether they would have liked to or not , it never happened . |
| 5 | She needs men to desire her . |
| 6 | I do n't need men to make me feel secure , to be a mother , to frame my morals , to pay my bills , to organize my life , to give me self-esteem . |
| 7 | What we never consider is whether women really want men to change or whether we take an active role — both as lovers and mothers — in keeping traditional expectations of men alive . |
| 8 | A shocking 79% of women say men do not take their stress levels seriously , and only half believe their partners help enough around the house . |
| 9 | They say men do n't lose their looks , and in his case it was true . |
| 10 | Barrier methods such as condoms are not favoured by Turkish men , and campaigns to encourage men to have vasectomies have proved a dismal failure . |
| 11 | I also encounter men drilling the roads etc without wearing ear protectors . |
| 12 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 13 | The same body of men could act as arbitrators in disputes and provide men to serve the Crown as local officials or as commissioners to levy a subsidy or array troops . |
| 14 | She could see fires occasionally , but when she approached them she found men strapped to stakes , burning . |
| 15 | He does not claim to offer us some ‘ truth ’ separable from himself , but challenges men to recognise him as the one who is the truth , and the truth into which we too are brought out of our own untruthfulness when we recognise who he is . |
| 16 | As in any large money-making industry there are crooks and con men masquerading as successful industry figures , and there is an understandable temptation to sign a deal with absolutely anyone after years of rejection . |
| 17 | Con men trick elderly sisters |
| 18 | They must find a way to unlock the defence other than by simply launching men head first into oblivion . |
| 19 | Female sexuality causes men to lose self-control so that they cease to be responsible for their actions — or so runs the accepted wisdom . |
| 20 | Er I wonder if there is in fact er a a view that women expect men to have of them that 's th the desirable woman ? |
| 21 | Men , my boyfriend says , Honest-to-God he says men huv n't got it any easier than women these days ! |
| 22 | This survey says men does the cooking . |
| 23 | ‘ Good God , ’ he muttered , ‘ did we really send men to fight in that ? ’ |
| 24 | Legends of these terrible sea routes reached the Old World and caused men to talk of the Elf-realm with dread . |
| 25 | She had noticed men leering at her and whispering to each other with dirty grins on their faces . |
| 26 | While carrying out research for my book , Our Treacherous Hearts : Why Women Let Men Get Their Way ( Faber & Faber , £14.99 ) , I found that men are not only often let off the hook by women , but are actively ‘ idealised ’ by them . |
| 27 | Let men wear skirts , not women trousers . |
| 28 | Apart from anything else , I ca n't help feeling that if women let men get away with too much bad behaviour , men do not forgive them for the burden of guilt they then have to bear . |
| 29 | Our study population comprised men born in one maternity hospital during 1907–24 . |
| 30 | Er they 'd help each other , if they were sick er well let's say quite a lot were unemployed down there and there were always someone that , I 've seen men stand at top of yard and say , have you got a fag Jack ? |