Example sentences of "men [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 But just then , three men rode round from the front of the castle .
2 The two men rode down the narrow alleyways where the great four-storey houses were interspaced with the ramshackle cottages and lean-tos of the workmen and artisans .
3 Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence .
4 They trained to land in various numbers , although in later years some nine men made up the team in a powered dory .
5 Most of the men got up to leave , shocked that the day had passed so quickly , that the cows were home already .
6 At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment , gathering several sticks as well .
7 In Leicester a group of men got up like train spotters were very excited to see our coach .
8 Then the men got round to the subject of politics .
9 The three men got off together , still avidly discussing Graham Greene .
10 He changed on to the Jubilee Line at Charing Cross and at Bond Street four men got in .
11 Daniel Donovan and two other men got in .
12 Why ? ’ she said , her face bitter with fury , when the two men got in beside her .
13 He was ( if none of the mushroom men got in ahead of him ) a man with a future in the University of East Louisiana .
14 But as she drew near , the doors flew open and two casually dressed young men got out and closed in on her .
15 The men got out by climbing a perimeter wall , out of sight of prison officers .
16 He says the men got out , produced firearms and went to a picnic area .
17 Two men got out and bundled the driver into the car .
18 Scott and the men got out and looked around .
19 Otherwise , apart from extremely formal jobs , most men got along without one .
20 Whether the increased release of the precursor in type II diabetes is due primarily to a low β cell mass or to insulin resistance is unclear , but the serum concentration of 32–33 split proinsulin in the men reported on by Hales and Barker correlated inversely with their body weight at 12 months .
21 William Tanner walked into the flat with Danny following behind him and both men bent over in turn to kiss Carrie on the cheek .
22 Two men swam out to guide it towards a moored boat .
23 As he watched , the two men wandered over to the door that led through to the garden .
24 Under conditions where lesser men blacked out into unconsciousness , Vologsky could stay awake , alert , and able to manipulate delicate controls .
25 As the girls paraded , the men shouted out bids .
26 Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg .
27 ’ The heads of the three men jerked round .
28 The men moved on .
29 Down here he was kwai again , trusting to his instincts as kwai , and , as if sensing this , men moved back from him as he passed .
30 When the power rear doors opened , the men moved out to the left and right of their vehicles , into their battle positions , and began to shoot at the enemy .
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