Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] men " in BNC.
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1 | More than half of the men , at a recent inspection , did not know when Hitler had come to over and ‘ nobody cares any longer about it ’ . |
2 | Cholesterol fell by 5 per cent and nearly half of the men gave up smoking . |
3 | Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger . |
4 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
5 | In them , she again described the work she did and the success she had achieved ; she gave details of her height , weight and false hair colour ; she even made a comment or two - as some of the men had in their letters — on her sexual preferences . |
6 | Some of the men inside the hut had peered out like timid ghosts . |
7 | Some of the men , when they saw me looking at them , smiled shyly , and as if automatically scratched their swollen codpieces . |
8 | The novelist , William Hale White , felt that some of the men he had known before being expelled from a Congregational theological college ‘ would have had more genuine lives if they had stood behind counters or learned some craft than they ever had in the ministry ’ . |
9 | In desperation , some of the men tried to dig their way through to Stourbridge to get coal for heating . |
10 | Some of the men in the offices looked up as they passed , nodded to Wilcox and eyed Robyn curiously . |
11 | When we got back , some of the men were asleep and some were finishing their supper . |
12 | Because some of the men were alcoholics there was often the sound of singing , or slurred attempts at it , and occasionally vomiting . |
13 | Some of the men who came in late in the war had not joined up until after the older prisoners had been shot down . |
14 | On the evening you then had perhaps 100 or more guests altogether sitting down to a splendid meal followed afterwards by an entertainment organised by some of the men of the congregation . |
15 | Her cry galvanised some of the men into action . |
16 | I still remember the names of some of the men we hired over the years — there was Billy Lockie , Mark Dent , and an Irishman called John Boyne . |
17 | But now he was here , and posing , with his fists , at some of the men , like kidding he was a boxer . |
18 | Some of the men undressed to their loincloths and waded out into the cold water while others pushed the trees from the bank . |
19 | Some of the men wore striped , yak's-wool blankets draped over their heads and the shoulders of their thick woollen jackets . |
20 | While some of the men held the weight of the body in place , others bound the forelegs , and the hind legs , together with rope . |
21 | Some of the men had been collecting driftwood and dry sticks and branches from among the trees ; a small fire was coming to life , crackling and spluttering sparks into the haze of heat above it . |
22 | Some of the men asked questions and made comments , also in sign language , and I asked Kalchu what they were saying . |
23 | Then the young boys and some of the men split off , leading their dogs on chains up a steep animal track that climbed straight to the heart of the forest . |
24 | Some of the men had brought ropes and small axes with them so that , while they were in the forest , they could carry back a load of firewood rather than returning empty-handed if they did n't get the boar . |
25 | He had seen some of the men of Famagusta . |
26 | Some of the men wore uniforms , others did n't . |
27 | Then again there were a lot more women than men involved ( comme toujours ) , and some of the men reacted very negatively to that . |
28 | Some of the men in GLF had called themselves feminist , as had the Mao-ist men at Skegness . |
29 | Some of the men had run for their lives by now . |
30 | And a day after them the Panzer convoys took the same road , and some of the girls and women of Bazar with great daring threw flowers onto the mud-spattered armour of the Panther heavy tanks , and some of the men cheered and the headmaster of the secondary school said that evening in the café on Lenin Street that this was a moment of deliverance . |