Example sentences of "the men were [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The men were shot in the head . |
| 3 | Two of the men were shot in the back and a third in the hand . |
| 4 | Two of the men were shot in the back and a third in the hand . |
| 5 | The men were treated at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . |
| 6 | The men were unloaded in the reception area at Long Kesh Detention Camp and placed in cubicles . |
| 7 | The Crown 's case was that the men were found by the police in a public lavatory behaving indecently towards each other . |
| 8 | Well you could n't er the men were hired on the farms for for a term of six months you know . |
| 9 | It is understood a number of weapons were recovered when the men were arrested in the Shankill Road area soon after the shootings . |
| 10 | The men were rescued by the Fraserburgh lifeboat and taken to Fraserburgh hospital where they were released after treatment for cold . |
| 11 | Interview he sez it 's appropriate that the men were brought to the Radcliffe for their eye surgery although it 's straightforward treatment . |
| 12 | Interview he says it 's appropriate that the men were brought to the Radcliffe for their eye surgery . |
| 13 | 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 . |