Example sentences of "men [vb base] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jewish men make themselves more holy by separating from Jewish women , both to avoid women 's impurity and to seek a holy space for prayer and relation to God , defined by the exclusion of the female . |
| 2 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 3 | Men remain themselves if they stay honest . |
| 4 | Salvadorean women , indignant at such servility and such silence on the part of those with whom we have entrusted the destiny of our Fatherland , demand that all our men declare themselves ready to defend our sovereignty , showing the world that Salvadoreans indeed have dignity . |
| 5 | A survey I carried out in Brighton last summer indicated that unemployed men report themselves to be much less satisfied with their lives than do employed men . |
| 6 | For many feminists resist the relativist conclusion in this case to demand that both women and men shake themselves free of their conditioning . |
| 7 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know if a lot of men put themselves up against that . ’ |
| 9 | There would be noting to indicate how compelling and sweeping is the style , how wonderfully well Nick Farr-Jones and Bob Dwyer and their men conduct themselves . |
| 10 | Many Central Asian men consider themselves to be helpful around the house ; fewer women agree with them . |
| 11 | Ninety-four per cent of the men describe themselves as exclusively heterosexual ; only 3% describe themselves as either bisexual or homosexual . |
| 12 | ( This trend has been so insistent that when men find themselves in part-time work economists have begun to call this the feminisation of labour . ) |
| 13 | Now , with both Liverpool and Everton among the also-rans the two men find themselves in the ironic position of standing in each others ' way with the Premier League championship up for grabs . |
| 14 | Quite often the divisional boundaries in the amalgamated force mirror the old , small force boundaries and men define themselves in relation to their early experience with perhaps an inner city ethic , a large-town police style , or in the framework of a more rural situation . |
| 15 | These men rate themselves fitter than those who came to sex late and they 're less likely to consider themselves overweight . |
| 16 | Every Easter , a number of brave Filipino men allow themselves to be crucified — with real nails driven through their palms — in an attestation of their faith . |
| 17 | Men harden themselves against outer threats and against inner weaknesses , against the femininity that lurks in us . |
| 18 | These men reconcile themselves to circumstance , make their own compromises with destiny until happier times . |
| 19 | And as Laz reached the lift , this very same reader now observed the Repo Men form themselves into a firing line and cock their weapons noisily . |
| 20 | Now any adequate account of self needs to be able , I think , to encompass and try to make intelligible the ways in which women and men experience themselves . |
| 21 | ‘ About 50 per cent of our sales are made to women and they tend to buy their men more adventurous underwear than the men buy themselves , ’ says Nicky Lovell , ‘ but British men are becoming more interested in something other than a pair of white underpants . ’ |