Example sentences of "[num] men [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A striking example of the area 's isolation occurred when Yakovlev and his thirteen men arrived at the end of their horse-ride in the village of Nikol'sk . |
| 2 | Yesterday , another British armoured vehicle with six men arrived in the village . |
| 3 | Inside the shrine three men sat around the fire . |
| 4 | Normally three men travelled in the jeep although it was more comfortable with only two . |
| 5 | Three men stood in the entrance of the courtyard , waving sticks . |
| 6 | Eighty men died during the land invasion . |
| 7 | ‘ Eight or ten men came to the training ground as we finished at about 12am and they wanted statements from all of us . |
| 8 | At this signal , another fifteen men climbed over the sides and squeezed in . |
| 9 | MacIver had told police : ‘ I just made sure no-one was about while the other two men went into the cab , got the driver and drove off . ’ |
| 10 | Two men went into the shop and grabbed two tills containing about £1,000 . |
| 11 | Just before noon today two men sauntered into the Bradford and Bingley building society in Summertown , the first pulled a gun and demanded cash . |
| 12 | One afternoon , two men came to the door of the house and demanded to see her . |
| 13 | It was very crowded , two men came down the street , straddled on a trotting mule , and people pressed against us . |
| 14 | Later that Wednesday , as she was teaching a class of children , two men came into the classroom asking for some paper and pencils . |
| 15 | Discussions between the two men led to the organisation of an important and influential summer study in African Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961 ( fifty-two participants attended , including fourteen from African states , a larger number of American academics and a few British ) . |
| 16 | The two men stared into the study . |
| 17 | Although the ostler 's evening meal was almost ready to be served , the Burford constable asked him to accompany him to Handley Farm , where he was going to talk to Seb , and the two men walked along the road deep in conversation . |
| 18 | Two men walked through the downpour , their heads pulled into their coat collars . |
| 19 | The two men walked into the hallway . |
| 20 | The dead man has n't been identified but neighbours say two men lived in the cottage … both school teachers . |
| 21 | The dead man has n't been identified but neighbours say two men lived in the cottage … both school teachers . |
| 22 | The faces of the three nearly touched , as the two men leant over the table to hear what the woman had to say , and the woman leant over towards them so that they could hear her whisper . |
| 23 | Later that night , Jean Robertson , manageress of Brannigan 's pub near Easterhouse , and two male friends were threatened with knives when two men broke into the pub at around 11:45pm and took almost £600 . |
| 24 | The two men rose from the table together . |
| 25 | Two men appeared at the mill to make what they called ‘ Preliminary Investigations ’ . |
| 26 | Two men stood behind the Studebaker . |
| 27 | To their combined relief , it was not long before the two men arrived at the driveway and stepped cautiously out onto its surface . |
| 28 | Small took the wheel of a dilapidated pick-up , while two men knelt behind the cab with shotguns . |
| 29 | The two men sat on the bunk shelf very still , and their saucer eyes never left Holly 's face . |
| 30 | The two men sat by the window with a pocket-watch between them , and waited for Oliver 's return . |