Example sentences of "[adj] man were [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew she was angry with him for allowing their daughter to join the hunt , traditionally something only a select few men were allowed the honour of , but she would see his way soon enough . |
| 2 | And also as you said , the thing with colours , they were said to perhaps use less basic colour terms , so if some men were shown a bluey-green some men would say and some would say whereas a women allegedly would say turquoise or whatever . |
| 3 | A dozen suited men were fastening the edges of the insulator to the brace of the frame . |
| 4 | After a babble of Arabic , the tailboard of the lorry was dropped and a dozen men were lifting the wheelbarrow . |
| 5 | And when the tailor and the little grey man were consuming the pie , whose warm smell filled the little house , the little grey man said , ‘ Otto was right , you are a good and honest man , and you care — for all the creatures in this place , leaving no one unattended and nothing undone . |
| 6 | Armoured men were pushing the crowd back with the shafts of their spears . |
| 7 | The two men were enjoying a condition of harmony which had been unknown in all the previous years . |
| 8 | Two men were building a warden 's post with sandbags by a shop selling corsets and combinations . |
| 9 | The terms of the verbal agreement between the two men were to become the subject of lengthy , costly and bitter litigation , and to make the names of Baron of Buchlyvie and its owners known far outwith Ayrshire and the world of Clydesdales . |
| 10 | They rode through the stink of pyres where local men were burning the bodies of the beasts killed the night before , and then the land dipped and they were back in the Dales proper with the hills behind them and some of the chill wind cut off . |
| 11 | Having read both manuscripts carefully I had no doubts at all that both men were speaking the truth . |