Example sentences of "[adj] men [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've landless men to send over to take the places of the dead , and fowls and beasts to get them started again . |
| 2 | It was fairly quiet , just one or two elderly men conversing over a pint . |
| 3 | But a long time ago I was writing a television play about Irish men coming over to England to collect their brother 's body , and I could n't imagine how they 'd talk . |
| 4 | The daunting confines of the Crucible Theatre have been known to make strong men tremble over the simplest of pots , but after what has happened to the unassuming Thai in recent weeks , it will be a shock of seismic proportions if the occasion affects him — even on his debut . |
| 5 | Police said three armed men took over a house at Garvagh Road , Dungiven , last night and hijacked a white Transit van which they abandoned with the bomb on board . |
| 6 | Police said three armed men took over a house at Garvagh Road , Dungiven , last night and hijacked a white Transit van which they abandoned with the bomb on board . |
| 7 | He looked around from force of habit , but the spooks from the Mukhabarat were too disorganized and demoralized to pay any attention to a couple of middle-aged men crouched over a whisky . |
| 8 | In the woods of oak she passed glades where cowled men chanted over carved wooden heads or walked about the piled armour of dead warriors . |