Example sentences of "men [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ? |
| 2 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 3 | Men make the large-scale decisions affecting the family , while women only control those areas that are strictly ‘ domestic ’ . |
| 4 | At the end of their eras , both men became the subject of investigations : Mr Milken 's in court last year and Morgan 's in front of Congress 's Pujo committee in 1912–13 . |
| 5 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 6 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 7 | And at the Transit at Novosibirsk there were rats , great grey pigs , a tail as thick as your little finger , and the men in the holding cells slept in a laager in the centre of the floor and changed the watch in the dark hours so that always some men guarded the edge of their perimeter . |
| 8 | Ignoring her , the captain ordered his men to carry the body aft , and the woman eventually rose and hobbled after them , still sobbing piteously . |
| 9 | He got some of the men to carry the leather-worker to Zeinab 's flat . |
| 10 | Such men push the boundaries as far as they can to try to get their women to love them , dirt and all . |
| 11 | ‘ It was upsetting the work schedule she 'd planned , ’ he explained , glancing towards the tables where the banter and laughter among the sixteen young men made the lowering of his voice unnecessary . |
| 12 | Billy Bingham 's men made the perfect start with a goal after just 14 minutes from Jim Magilton . |
| 13 | I was often to meet these apparently carefree young men parading the streets and lanes of the city well after midnight , or serenading pretty girls beneath their lighted windows , their only reward a thrown rose or carnation . |
| 14 | Her son went straight to the town hall to ask maintenance men to restore the vital services for his mother . |
| 15 | The men went back and searched the trains but the man had disappeared ; all the men agreed the man had been there , they had all seen him , they were all completely baffled . |
| 16 | The problem was too many men applying for too few places ; in 1895 , eighty-seven men passed the required examination for the ministry although the college still had only sixty places . |
| 17 | In merry companionship both men braved the hardship of the landlord 's sleeping arrangements and settled for the night , chatting idly and humorously across the partition like schoolboys in a dormitory . |
| 18 | Again there was a painting of men scrubbing the floors . |
| 19 | ‘ I spend my time helping men make the often painful shift that comes from relinquishing a now inappropriate way of working . |
| 20 | Erm , I think it 's quite interesting what you just said about er men using the , the word cunt , which actually |
| 21 | men using the wo er , female genitalia as a a derogatory term and if we actually go back to the roots of that word erm , to me it 's like basic shows you what misogyny 's about the actual root of that word it means , seat of power . |
| 22 | Oddly the thought still writhed within him — the thought of other men using the body he had loved himself , being given wholesale what he had been offered as an inestimable gift . |
| 23 | However , investigators believe the men placed the bomb on a plane at Valletta 's Luqa airport , giving the Maltese authorities an obvious interest in seeing Libya absolved of blame . |
| 24 | What effectively , I think , I mean I 've never actually sat down because it would be an enormous mistake and nobody would thank me for it , but my guess is that those enormously complex classificated can be understood as a method by which old men rig the system for their own benefit and hide this kinds of ridiculous anonymous and the anomaly basically is the young men end up with old wives |
| 25 | Some of my men picketed the high ground while we passed underneath , constantly urged by the headman and his followers not to straggle . |
| 26 | Rather , they appear when the uses of power are matters of controversy , and they are weapons in the struggles of men to enjoy the benefits and escape the burdens of power . |
| 27 | The FA cup finalists need one more win to be sure of safety and victory would enable Malcolm Crosby 's men to enjoy the Wembley buildup . |
| 28 | Four of the five men manning the roadblock were similarly armed . |
| 29 | The great impact made by The Way of All Flesh suggests that many young men shared the experience of Pontifex , especially those who , like him , had been brought up in accordance with strict Evangelical principles . |
| 30 | The two men shared the same business address in Essex Street , and were joint founders of a number of periodicals , including the Critic and the Field . |