Example sentences of "[noun pl] and woman [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1920s business travellers took advantage of improved facilities on the railways : businessmen and women relax in the lounge of the LMS ‘ Royal Scot ’ , 1928 . |
| 2 | They 're the children of American servicemen and women based in the region , and today they said a sad farewell to the airbase classrooms . |
| 3 | In addition there was always one band playing and marching to the playing fields and another playing and marching away from there , while huge coaches carrying yet more bandsmen and women manoeuvred in the narrow streets into and out of parking spaces . |
| 4 | It is no mere epilogue , but a striking demonstration that it was possible for men and women to co-operate in the printing trade . |
| 5 | They would be a formidable group — men and women trained in the skills and methods of STASI , the old East German secret police , the Romanian Securitate , etc . |
| 6 | As the historian of the university puts it : " The war had amply proved the value to the community of men and women trained in the university as leaders , scientists and technicians . " |
| 7 | From government statistics ( Claus Moser ) and social theory ( Ernest Gellner ) to art history ( Ernst Gombrich ) and the Freudian legacy , a few thousand men and women born in the cities of Mitteleuropa in the first quarter of this century quickened the pulse of a smug and sluggish culture . |
| 8 | Some 15 million American men and women served in the armed forces , of whom over 300 000 were killed ; many millions at home were involved in war work . |
| 9 | Not only do we not get from the Enlightenment an understanding of human nature that is under the curse of the fall , neither do we get a true understanding of men and women made in the image of God . |
| 10 | Old men and women sat in the shade of the doorways , chatting and drinking black coffee . |