Example sentences of "of the men " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was absolutely no news of the men . |
| 2 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 3 | Beside the Cross one of the men had torn a paper into little bits and scattered them , to a groaning catcall from the crowd . |
| 4 | Cameron recognized several of his workment from Aberfeldy and warmed to their comradeship — he had talked little politics with them ( in the aftermath of the big treason trials , caution had seemed advisable ) but he had passed on his newspapers and one of the men came from Lochaber like himself . |
| 5 | Maybe we can talk quietly to a few of the men — one of the masons from Ballechin has a son who must be twenty . ’ |
| 6 | She played back the messages on her answerphone and jotted down the numbers and names of the men who had called : Tony , Ali , Geoff , and Junior . |
| 7 | In them , she again described the work she did and the success she had achieved ; she gave details of her height , weight and false hair colour ; she even made a comment or two - as some of the men had in their letters — on her sexual preferences . |
| 8 | I remembered the threatening looks of the men of the family , the attentive stares from the ones in the street , my mother 's harsh way of talking : and I repeated it to myself . |
| 9 | Was it because I was out of reach of the prying eyes of the men in my family and their questions about my comings and goings , and far from my mother 's interrogations about why I slept on my stomach , or why I took so long in the bathroom ? |
| 10 | Tony Starling partnered A Swetka of the USA to reach the semi-final of the Men 's 70 doubles . |
| 11 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 12 | Anyone seeing such works of sculpture for the first time can not fail to note the harmonious line described through the perfectly proportioned bodies of the men and women portrayed . |
| 13 | It was hard , perilous work which , by rockfall or dust , killed most of the men employed in it before their retirement age , and it left Evan with the gasping lungs of the silicosis-sufferer . |
| 14 | There were two classes for the ladies : Miss Bikini ( figure ) , which was like Miss World without the breasts ( pumping iron , paradoxically , serves only to deflate them ) and Miss Bikini ( physique ) in which the girls resemble scaled-down versions of the men , without the knobbly bits . |
| 15 | The rest of the committee support Taylor , and are suspicious of the motives of the men they have dubbed ‘ the gang of three ’ . |
| 16 | Maclean was docked a penalty point for dissent in the second game by the Australian referee , Chris Sinclair , the only woman officiating at this level of the men 's game . |
| 17 | ‘ They do n't realise the speed of the men players or what they can do with the ball . |
| 18 | His East European Jewish background — he was born Schmuel Gelbfisz , in Warsaw — and the instinct that first led him into pictures , make him typical of the men who created Hollywood : Louis B Mayer , Adolph Zukor , Carl Laemmle , William Fox and the Warners . |
| 19 | Two of the men turn out to have family problems . |
| 20 | Because none of the men formally lodged complaints , the authority was not told of the three extra cases until after Mr Dear 's purge . |
| 21 | What is more important than gender is the personality and skill of the fieldworker in overcoming the feelings of suspicion the police have of all outsiders , especially in the more enclosed and threatened world of the RUC , and in our case the field-worker 's gender seemed no bar to her obtaining access to the masculine ‘ canteen culture ’ of the men or to participating in conversations on the topics which are popular in that culture , which van Maanen describes as ‘ sports , cars and sex ’ ( 1981 : 476 ) . |
| 22 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 23 | One experienced constable explained the process as follows : ‘ Like , whenever we get a new constable in this station , they are guided along by the rest of the men . |
| 24 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 25 | This useful and sensible book is written in the belief that historians can not properly understand the dynamics of British imperial expansion without taking account of the sexual attitudes and expectations of the men who have administered British overseas possessions since the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | They cut across class and gender , though women 's groups almost certainly out-number those of the men . |
| 27 | Many of the men who had actually fought got nothing . |
| 28 | Monogamy did not , however , simultaneously restrict the sexual freedom of the men , in spite of a pretence otherwise , since men had nothing to lose through philandering . |
| 29 | There are no weekends , every day is a potential workday … rains may interrupt the activities of the men … but not of the women . |
| 30 | But on the whole I do n't think that most of the men have changed their ideas or attitude that much . ’ |