Example sentences of "[pron] men [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ How would a political party as totally committed as the Labour Party to equality of treatment and of opportunity for girls and women , lend its support to the introduction of schools in which men exercise all the power , and women are assigned a subordinate and restricted role ? ’ |
| 2 | the objects to which men give most preference , their ideals , proceed from the same perceptions and experiences as the objects which they most abhor , and … they were originally only distinguished from one another through slight modifications … |
| 3 | That if evolution was all about survival of the fittest , and if men are physically fitter in the sense of sporting prowess , which they unquestionable are , how has evolution produced the situation in which men have less life expectancy than women do from every point of view this far ? |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know what you men make such a fuss about , ’ Mary said . |
| 5 | ‘ Is n't it strange , Sir John , ’ Athelstan murmured , ‘ how we men take such a delight in the humiliation of others ? ’ |
| 6 | When , after five or six miles [ 8–10 km ] , his men reached another defile , between Loch Lochy and a steeply sloping mountain to the east , they found the Highlanders had arrived before them , and after a brisk action , in which he eventually found himself hemmed in on three sides , Scott , himself wounded , and with two men dead , accepted terms of surrender . |
| 7 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 8 | We drifted for an hour while Bob and his men replaced some leading injector pipes until the sudden welcome roar of our trusty Paxmans sent us southward again , across St. Magnus Bay and outside Papa Stour , finally leaving the straggling tentacles of land and long voes of West Shetland to reach Scalloway as darkness fell . |
| 9 | ‘ At 28ft the front window cracked and I had a job getting up again' he writes , the Prime Minister did not approve of such risks by senior officers , but the CCO felt his men expected such leadership . |
| 10 | ‘ Your men know this area best . |
| 11 | Your men stopped any clearing up , naturally . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ the Doctor broke in , ‘ but have your men taken all the university ? ’ |