Example sentences of "and [art] men " in BNC.
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1 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
2 | I fell in the brown water and fouled my frock , and the men never heeded , of course , but there was the devil to pay when we got home at night . ’ |
3 | One of the myths Eleanor would speak against was the idea that socialists wanted to have women in common , and the men who made these accusations , she said , were the owners of the means of production anyway . |
4 | In Nightwalker , set to a medley of Duke Ellington , Hall shows that he can dovetail a strong variety of jazz elements without looking derivative , and the men in particular pounce on his choreography with eagerness and panache . |
5 | But , it may be objected , what of God 's relationship with His creation and the men and women He has made ? |
6 | Brigadier Mills Roberts and his Officers and the men of the 1st Commando Brigade disembarked to the March Past of the Irish Guards , followed by the March Past of the Scots Guards , Highland Laddie , the bagpipe tune I played going ashore at La Breche with Lord Lovat . |
7 | The mother watched , the little sister watched and the men came in now and then and offered advice . |
8 | The big doors would open for them and close on them and McCloy and the men who were ‘ not quite up to his class ' would unload them and store the cargoes here . |
9 | One of the great distinctions in his mythology is made between the Elves , who are ‘ animist ’ and ‘ pagan ’ , and the Men , who are destined to move beyond this . |
10 | Had we seen a fox , the pick-up would have sped after it , at 40 mph or more , and the men would have shot it . |
11 | And John Grierson persistently praised Hitchcock for putting ordinary people on to the screen , while attacking Asquith for making films that reflected ‘ a leisure-class England which has lost contact with fundamentals , with the toiling earth and the men who go with it . ’ |
12 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
13 | And the men like him . |
14 | Near the end of the book of Joshua a passing reference is made to a battle , which may or may not belong to the same account as chapter 2 : ‘ And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho , and the men of Jericho fought against you … ’ |
15 | It had something to do with the black market and ration-books and the Men From The Ministry . |
16 | In come the Estonians , ’ Harold Macmillan is said to have remarked after one of Margaret Thatcher 's early cabinet reshuffles , and the men to whom the Prime Minister turned were certainly outside this small genetic pool . |
17 | In 1222 it was reported to the Council of Regency that Thomas of Milton , hereditary warden of Inglewood Forest , had under him twelve riding foresters with their underforesters , who were maintained at the expense of the Crown and the men of the king 's demesnes . |
18 | In May the men of Devon agreed to pay the enormous fine of 5,000 marks for the disafforestment of their county outside the bounds of Dartmoor and Exmoor Forests , and the men of ‘ Hertfordlythe ’ ( Hartforth ) in North Yorkshire owed 100 marks and two palfreys for a similar charter in respect of their forest . |
19 | Although there was no British overall winner , second places in the Finn by Stuart Childerley , the Flying Dutchman by Roger Tushingham and the men 's Lechner Sailboard by Barrie Edgington were highly satisfactory , added to which there were fourths in the men 's 470 , the Europe and the women 's Lechner . |
20 | We have Remembrance Sunday each year in November to remember the two World Wars and the men who fought in them . |
21 | Violence was a daily part of their lives , and the men paid Trent 's leash as little attention as they would have spared for the commonplace of a bleeding corpse sprawled in the gutter back home . |
22 | Peons made sacrificial meat and the men smelt this on Gomez so that his command of them was tentative . |
23 | ‘ My senior managers go to the local pub , and the men prefer to bring their own snap . |
24 | When the alarm was given , the animals would be driven into the ground floor of the Pele Tower , the local families would ascend a ladder to the first floor , the women and children climbing again to the bower above and the men to the roof , where they would repulse the invaders . |
25 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
26 | The spar and sail clattered down , burying under the heavy red canvas both the sailors and the men fighting . |
27 | He had no track record himself in combat and the men he was to lead in battle were a pretty tough crowd , all of them individualists and likely to be highly critical of any officer who did not come up to their own standards . |
28 | Although God is holy and hates sin , yet Jesus had time for criminals , prostitutes and the men who exploited them . |
29 | Meanwhile , the collective clout of famous names like Pamela 's , Rula 's and Twiggy 's , heading a list which also features Victoria Wood , Kiri te Kanawa , Ben Kingsley , Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach , Linda McCartney , Shakira and Michael Caine — to name but a handful — means that the women ( and the men ) in the street who supports Parents for Safe Food 's Campaign at last stands a chance of being heard in the food forum . |
30 | I hesitated and the men looked appealingly for instruction . |