Example sentences of "[prep] men [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of men rounded the plantation , going at a run towards the lake . |
| 2 | A three-year follow up of a sample of elderly ( aged 65 + ) in Liverpool revealed that 44 per cent of women and 40 per cent of men defined as having organic brain disorders had died , compared with 11 per cent and 16 per cent of the well population . |
| 3 | Another group of men received a vocabulary centred on the wavelengths at the margins of the basic colours . |
| 4 | Now , with only a couple of things left to read , I have suddenly had enough of the miserable food , of the noise — a sort of veech sound — of men sucking their teeth , of the monotonous landscape barely visible through the smoke-fogged window … |
| 5 | We showed him two films , and gave him evidence of change in the motives of men affecting trouble spots and putting things to rights , socially and politically in many parts of the world . |
| 6 | The BOR is generous too , especially to those in trouble , and many reports are coming out of men sharing their rations with hungry villagers or of bringing the MO to see some sick Burmans . |
| 7 | The last thing she saw was the audience of men gazing at her curiously as her body was handled like a lump of meat . |
| 8 | Men fighting in the field depended on the votes of men splitting straws in Washington . |
| 9 | Up to 15 per cent of women and 10 per cent of men avoided it altogether . |
| 10 | Nearly a quarter of men clean out their cars once a month whereas nearly three in four women do it less frequently . |
| 11 | He produced in 1975 the results of a large survey , hailed as the ‘ Italian Kinsey report ’ , in which he found that 50 per cent of Italian women and 25 per cent of men engaged in sex ‘ only to please ’ their partners ; that 46 per cent of women and 19 per cent of men faked orgasm ; and that 49 per cent of women and a surprising 32 per cent of men reported that they were virgins at marriage . |
| 12 | Here was a shanty town of huts housing the hundreds of men engaged in the construction of the viaduct , living in discomfort with their wives and children , exposed to the elements and suffering a toll of casualties resulting from hardship and adverse conditions . |
| 13 | One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society . |
| 14 | In Berlin in 1885 81 per cent of men engaged in food supply , 83–5 per cent of builders , and over 85 per cent of those in transport had been born outside the city . |
| 15 | He produced in 1975 the results of a large survey , hailed as the ‘ Italian Kinsey report ’ , in which he found that 50 per cent of Italian women and 25 per cent of men engaged in sex ‘ only to please ’ their partners ; that 46 per cent of women and 19 per cent of men faked orgasm ; and that 49 per cent of women and a surprising 32 per cent of men reported that they were virgins at marriage . |
| 16 | A separatist , by definition , lives separately from men , although hatred of men does occur . |
| 17 | Clark Gable , Errol Flynn , Adolph Menjou — these are not the kind of men to serve as archetypes for celibate priests . |
| 18 | The use of contract armies to fight the war depended , of course , not just upon the readiness of men to serve but also upon the willingness of parliament to vote taxes to pay for the war . |
| 19 | The bravery of men swimming ashore in these pioneer beach reconnaissances is beyond question , and knowing Norman Teacher as a friend , as well as being his CO , the Commander feels there is a strong probability that the young Lieutenant made the supreme sacrifice in swimming to his death rather than risking his capture , as others , too , may have done . |
| 20 | Allowing for the fact that not every man would hear the call , and that the laird would wish to leave a number of men to guard the place , he then bumped up the arithmetic to suppose nine hundred inhabitants . |
| 21 | However , the proportion of men covered by occupational pension schemes had fallen slightly by 1983 to 66 per cent , while the proportion of women in schemes remained constant ( table 7.42 ) . |
| 22 | I think it 's often thought of as a way of men getting rid of their aggression and if they can go out there on a Saturday and shout and ball and scream , then that 's fine ! |
| 23 | So one gang of men take twelve hours . |
| 24 | Whether we believe that inequality of the sexes is the result of genetic differences , the desire of men to control and dominate women , outdated attitudes and prejudices or historical struggle , it is undoubtedly the case that there is a continuous process of producing and reproducing inequality . |
| 25 | She did set out , only the wickedness of men frustrated her journey . |
| 26 | A lot of men smoke hash — that 's OK. -Some are on mainline , which is not . |
| 27 | Perhaps even more significantly , ‘ 56 per cent of women and 57 per cent of men said they had no desire to go out any more than they already do ’ . |
| 28 | However , although 70 per cent of women expressed a desire for such facilities only 39 per cent of men responded positively . |
| 29 | That is by and large true , but Hardie is not certain that men have taken it on board and he is keen for plenty of men to attend to get a better understanding of the position . |
| 30 | A quarter of men owned shares but only 17 per cent of women ; 29 per cent of people aged 45-54 and 30 per cent of those aged 55-64 had shares , but only 18 per cent of those aged 25-34 . |