Example sentences of "[adj] men [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Is it going to take more men or less men to get this job done ? |
| 32 | These ten men change each year . |
| 33 | Better still was the situation for Congregationalists where seven out of every ten men had some form of higher education . |
| 34 | Town 's ten men reach another cup final |
| 35 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 36 | The scene on the other side of the beaker includes two armoured men facing each other , only one is complete , wearing a helmet and sleeve-buckler , but appearing to have only a whip , while his opponent seems to be wielding a short spear ( fig. 14.15 ) . |
| 37 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 38 | The scarlet execution cart was waiting for us , the skulls of hanged men decorating each side . |
| 39 | ‘ All wealthy men have this problem , do they ? |
| 40 | ‘ I have my own men to do that . |
| 41 | Macaulay was attributing rather too much blame to Frederick II of Prussia when he wrote ‘ in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend , black men fought on the coast of Coromandel , and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America . ’ |
| 42 | During the great cycle of wars in 1689 – 1713 both Louis XIV and his English opponents employed military men to fill many of the most important diplomatic appointments , while under Napoleon I they were even more extensively used . |
| 43 | It was the prospect of finding gold that induced these excited men to make such frantic efforts to open out the barrow ’ . |
| 44 | Though Lewis was not friendly to Catholicism , the two men had much more of a playful kind in common . |
| 45 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 46 | A few days later two men sized each other up none too discreetly in a Park Avenue office . |
| 47 | Walter Benjamin shared many of Adorno 's basic attitudes ; indeed the two men influenced each other considerably . |
| 48 | The two men stared each other out before Peter gave a sudden exclamation halfway between anger and defeat , and started for the door . |
| 49 | The two men knew each other much better now but , on the face of it , despite their joint passion for Sherlock Holmes and Eliot 's reliance upon Hayward 's editorial skills ( not only did he inspect the poetry , but he also removed social malapropisms from the drama ) , they were an oddly matched pair . |
| 50 | The two men deny that . |
| 51 | In The Fourth Man , a 1979 film-noir -ish comedy about a homosexual writer , he highlighted a scene with two men kissing that does n't spare the saliva ; in Spetters , he knee-capped American audiences with his depiction of Holland 's teenagers and , in his sword'n'sorcery adventure Flesh And Blood , his damsel in distress Jennifer Jason Leigh is abducted and raped — and enjoys it . |
| 52 | The two men argued that 's it 's an abuse of the legal process for the case to come to court 24 years after they allegedly helped the soviet double agent escape from Wormwood Scrubs , but Mr Randall has mixed feelings about their victory . |
| 53 | There was a second 's astonished silence in which the two men regarded each other . |
| 54 | But two men prevented this , one indirectly , the other by force of arms : Rodrigo del Bivar and the Almoravid chieftain , Yusuf ibn Teshufin . |
| 55 | Got two men coming this morning . |
| 56 | Two men held each of the prisoners . |
| 57 | The heavy two-handed sword fell with them , sliding along the floor as the two men wrestled each other in a deadly silence broken only by the sound of fists meeting flesh and their hoarse breathing . |
| 58 | Left alone again the two men faced each other , but Joshua gave Denis no time to think about his next move . |
| 59 | The two men faced each other . |
| 60 | Inside the room , the two men faced each other across John Coffin 's desk . |