Example sentences of "[art] men were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 2 | The tall grass on the other side of the river was still wet with dew and before they had gone fifty yards all the men were drenched to the waist . |
| 3 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 4 | The men were shot in the head . |
| 5 | Two of the men were shot in the back and a third in the hand . |
| 6 | Two of the men were shot in the back and a third in the hand . |
| 7 | The men were treated at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . |
| 8 | The men were unloaded in the reception area at Long Kesh Detention Camp and placed in cubicles . |
| 9 | The Crown 's case was that the men were found by the police in a public lavatory behaving indecently towards each other . |
| 10 | Well you could n't er the men were hired on the farms for for a term of six months you know . |
| 11 | David Owen , prosecuting , said the men were fighting outside the Volunteer pub in Park Road , Toxteth . |
| 12 | The men were working on the hard shoulder installing cables for emergency telephones when the lorry jacknifed . |
| 13 | It is understood a number of weapons were recovered when the men were arrested in the Shankill Road area soon after the shootings . |
| 14 | The men were rescued by the Fraserburgh lifeboat and taken to Fraserburgh hospital where they were released after treatment for cold . |
| 15 | It seemed that the men were welshing on the Equal Opportunities policy so as to make the paper more attractive to investors . |
| 16 | Interview he sez it 's appropriate that the men were brought to the Radcliffe for their eye surgery although it 's straightforward treatment . |
| 17 | Interview he says it 's appropriate that the men were brought to the Radcliffe for their eye surgery . |
| 18 | But as the judge quashed the indictment , the men were re-arrested in the dock and four other charges were brought : recruiting persons for training in sabotage and guerrilla warfare for the purpose of violent revolution , conspiring to aid foreign military units when they invaded the republic , furthering the aims of communism and soliciting and receiving funds for these purposes from several countries . |