Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] mines " in BNC.
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| 1 | A century ago there were children working down the mines in Britain . |
| 2 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 3 | He had to go down the mines and he stuck it out . |
| 4 | And then when the war came he er he was one of the first Bevan boys that , one of the boys that went down the mines to relieve the miners . |
| 5 | They were sort of given a choice er i either I , I think it was sort of either you go on the land or er y you , you go down the mines . |
| 6 | And he decided he 'd try down the mines . |
| 7 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 8 | They go down the mines , herd cattle , tend sewers — you must admit that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You hate me because I have the cash , you hate me because I 'm not tied to a counter in a shop or slaving down the mines for it . |
| 10 | With coal supplies fast dwindling , Truman acted : the Federal government took over the mines and prepared to bring in the army to run the railroads . |
| 11 | They also insisted that they would blow up the mines if Ceauşescu tried to force them back to work . |