Example sentences of "but [art] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the ladies doubles final had to be cancelled , but the men 's title was taken by Pashley and Carswell . |
| 2 | But the men look , refreshingly , as if they have spent years away from the studio mirror . |
| 3 | But the men gave way , because they had no choice , and the next minute the car had bounced out on to the road , turning left , away from the village and up towards the dale head . |
| 4 | But the men are lapping it up — so are their floosies . |
| 5 | Not a pleasant task but the men get a bit browned-off sitting on their hunkers here , doing precious little but dig , and insecure grumbles to their wives and girl friends creep in from time to time . |
| 6 | But the men did n't talk . |
| 7 | But the men of the county stood firm : their perambulation , made ten days later , exactly repeated the assertions made the year before . |
| 8 | I still do n't like regulars any more than I ever did ; the officers are not too bad , but the men are not a good type , and the ex-ranker officer is a strain to live with . |
| 9 | Chana Orloff , who was sitting next to her husband and Modigliani , was a little worried by the grandiose gesture , but the men shrugged and said : ‘ We 'll get a good meal ’ . |
| 10 | She was safe from the men , but the men themselves were now in need of quick rescue . |
| 11 | But the men , yes ! |
| 12 | this commemorates not only Cook , but the men who built the Whitby ships , and those who sailed in them . |
| 13 | But the men in that column are churchmen . |
| 14 | Women open themselves up to men but the men , they stay like rock , whatever they say , so that this , ’ she threw one hand up into the steam , ‘ and women 's tears do not touch them . ‘ |
| 15 | He gave up his £60 pension money but the men continued to torture him at his home in Basingstoke , Hants . |
| 16 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |
| 17 | But the men liked the giants ' tricks : one used to swallow and then regurgitate long arrows , as in a circus ; and another , who allowed himself to be called Juan and learned some biblical phrases , caught and ate all the rats and mice on board , to the entertainment of the men and the pleasure of the cook . |
| 18 | They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle . |
| 19 | But the men at City Hall , sniffing at anything too ideological , insist that big cuts are just not practical . |
| 20 | But the men themselves , who call it ‘ the muppet shop ’ , remain unconvinced that it really has anything to offer . |
| 21 | In rich provincial capitals these apprehensions might have been well-founded , but the men of smaller towns made common cause with the country folk : Kett 's rising actually began in Wymondham , the Prayer Book rebellion in Bodmin . |
| 22 | But the men were blinded and confused by the snowstorm . |
| 23 | But the men reacted to the women " on the basis of sex solidarity rather than seeing them as part of the working class ' . |
| 24 | Clearly ( as the employers were quick to point out ) keyboarding had nothing in common with what a man had learnt during his apprenticeship : it meant acquiring a new skill , But the men 's reluctance is still Surprising , and seems to be unique to Edinburgh . |
| 25 | The songs were about love and loss , aspiration and disappointment , but the men smiled as they sang , as if the melodies and the sheer pleasure of singing overcame the tragedy of the words . |
| 26 | ‘ But the men were many and clever and shot at the eagles with arrows , and trapped them in nets and put them to death , one after another . |
| 27 | People arrived in couples , but the men were the first to leave . |
| 28 | We had a tea break which was only supposed to be for ten minutes , but the men took exception to this so we usually got a bit longer . |
| 29 | But the men did not hear her because the engine was making a lot of steam and noise . |
| 30 | But the men had to balance it up by , what they called chits , tha that came on every garment and how much er money they were getting for it . |