Example sentences of "['s] man had " in BNC.
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| 1 | While small , dead and still-bleeding little bodies lay like exposed carrion round the harbour , the weeping fathers hovered over them to stop the crows and flies finishing off what Gorbrandt 's men had started . |
| 2 | Mackenzie 's men had to set the traps themselves . |
| 3 | His father 's men had told him of Marion Aluinn . |
| 4 | He was trying to remember the route he had taken the morning de Craon 's men had stopped him . |
| 5 | De Montfort 's men had to march up the northern scarp , but they still seem to have taken the royal forces , camped down in the priory grounds , by surprise . |
| 6 | This Group were only 50 yards from the shore when the Kenya 's bombardment lifted , her job well done with the German guncrews keeping in their dugouts , and before the batteries could come into action Jack Churchill 's men had overrun Maaloy . |
| 7 | Christopher Smalley 's men had already destroyed the great wheels in the winding-house . |
| 8 | To reach their goal d'Abreu 's men had gone halfway round the world from Europe to the Orient , and always in directions with an easterly component . |
| 9 | The French had retreated , presumably back to Frasnes , while Saxe-Weimar 's men had begun to make their bivouacs . |
| 10 | Bothwell 's men had to carry their leader back to Hermitage , where he was greeted by the mortifying news that the prisoners had overpowered their guards and taken charge of the castle . |
| 11 | More of the Duke 's men had run to the room and the noise of the fighting grew louder . |
| 12 | The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that . |
| 13 | When Hugh 's men had lifted Aldhelm 's body on to the litter , and set off down the path with it towards the Foregate , Tutilo fell in behind the sorry little procession like a mourner , and went silently step for step with them , his eyes still upon the shrouded body . |
| 14 | In the end , Lamb 's men had 10 overs in hand as they cruised to success . |
| 15 | If they had closed the gates to guard against any untoward incident until the king 's men had passed , they would be the less inclined to make any checks of those passing through afterwards . |
| 16 | The drays and bullocks Stephen had sent from Yarrundi eventually arrived on 27 September , the ‘ tent was struck ’ where Gould 's men had encamped outside town with all the provisions , and was loaded up on the carts for the long , slow haul back to the reaches of the Upper Hunter . |
| 17 | Cnut 's men had fought hard , and doubtless expected to be remunerated accordingly . |
| 18 | Some Franks were prepared to fight under the Roman Paul , just as Childeric 's men had once followed Aegidius according to a rather more legendary story which Gregory of Tours knew , but which Fredegar related at greater length . |
| 19 | And Howard Wilkinson 's men had good reason . |
| 20 | Bingham 's men had reigned in the rain ; what a pity the deluge of good results had come too late to save the harvest . |
| 21 | About 50 people were wounded and 50 of Jess 's men had to flee . |
| 22 | The great bar to the gate was lifted and the Caliph 's men had poured into the city . |
| 23 | The Hapsburgs ' man had been surprisingly frank with him about political and military topics . |
| 24 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 25 | Louis ' men had set their roadblock the far side of the bridge from Trent 's observation point — upended ammunition boxes topped by poles cut from the jungle edge and a square white signboard on which Trent could see red letters made indecipherable by the angle of the board to his line of vision . |
| 26 | Alan Davies ' men had good reason for jubilation as a spirited fight-back earned a first Championship win since 1989 . |