Example sentences of "men [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just then , three men rode round from the front of the castle . |
| 2 | Then the men got round to the subject of politics . |
| 3 | As he watched , the two men wandered over to the door that led through to the garden . |
| 4 | The London merchants of this period do not , however , represent a closely connected group of families as they had done in an earlier age : the civic upper class was constantly being renewed , either as families died out , or as successful men moved out from the city to the country . |
| 5 | Police say a car containing three men drew up outside the house in Hudson Street . |
| 6 | When darkness fell , the men drove off up the escarpment and made for the rendezvous , spreading themselves out as widely as possible . |
| 7 | The men came back across the courtyard . |
| 8 | It was already in her hand before he spoke , and by the time the men came back with the table and pillows they were running in normal saline through a line in his hand . |
| 9 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |
| 10 | Then two more men came out of the building . |
| 11 | Three men came out of the rear of the house . |
| 12 | Then the removal men came out of the house for the last time , wiping their brows on their once-white aprons , and then they helped down from the van a little old lady . |
| 13 | Two men came out of the house . |
| 14 | And when the Captain-General and his men turned up in the afternoon — all in polished armour , and bearing a gaudy new flag adorned with the arms of Castile and Leon and a Madonna and Child — they were dismayed ? embarrassed ? horrified ? amused ? ( history does not record ) to find no sea in sight ; just hundreds of yards of black and rank-smelling mud . |
| 15 | Both men hurtled on over the top of Barbara in a tangle of limbs , crashing to the office floor . |
| 16 | The fresh men piled out into the fight , driving the MacIans away from the ships for long enough to grab every Maclean they could find and heave him aboard . |
| 17 | With a last , quizzical look at her slightly stunned expression , he waited for Mike to join him , then both men walked out of the suite , leaving her alone with Ace . |
| 18 | Myeloski laughed , switched off the light , and the two men walked out of the room . |
| 19 | The men talked on about the project , and the women feeling themselves to be excluded — as perhaps they were — started a conversation among themselves . |
| 20 | Throughout the cavern , men looked about at the commotion , and those in the vicinity scattered for cover , while the two scientists cast terrified glances at the huge expanse of drums and called in vain for the guards not to shoot . |
| 21 | He retreated to a side booth where he summoned a waiter , ordered a beer , and watched as the two men went out into the garden at the rear . |
| 22 | As the men went out of the door Laura stared glumly over at the young policewoman . |
| 23 | Many British men brought up with the notion that independence is strength fear dependency as a threat to their manhood . |
| 24 | But at night the sky was dense with stars , and the men stretched out on the sand to gaze heavenward . |
| 25 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 26 | Both men sat down at the table . |
| 27 | Men jumped on to the bank to secure it , and the man who had given the orders leapt overboard with a silver plash , two others behind him . |