Example sentences of "[num] men [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They saw three men pushing some steps across the tarmac . |
| 2 | These ten men change each year . |
| 3 | Better still was the situation for Congregationalists where seven out of every ten men had some form of higher education . |
| 4 | Town 's ten men reach another cup final |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Though Lewis was not friendly to Catholicism , the two men had much more of a playful kind in common . |
| 7 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 8 | A few days later two men sized each other up none too discreetly in a Park Avenue office . |
| 9 | Walter Benjamin shared many of Adorno 's basic attitudes ; indeed the two men influenced each other considerably . |
| 10 | The two men stared each other out before Peter gave a sudden exclamation halfway between anger and defeat , and started for the door . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The two men deny that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was a second 's astonished silence in which the two men regarded each other . |
| 16 | But two men prevented this , one indirectly , the other by force of arms : Rodrigo del Bivar and the Almoravid chieftain , Yusuf ibn Teshufin . |
| 17 | Got two men coming this morning . |
| 18 | Two men held each of the prisoners . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Left alone again the two men faced each other , but Joshua gave Denis no time to think about his next move . |
| 21 | The two men faced each other . |
| 22 | Inside the room , the two men faced each other across John Coffin 's desk . |
| 23 | The two men measured each other . |
| 24 | At last we discovered two men fighting each other . |
| 25 | But two men hitting each other about the face and body does n't make any sense to me . |
| 26 | Then I saw two men hitting each other , others running , some falling down . |
| 27 | Whether Eubank can ever actually get around the fact that boxing attracts crowds because people love to see two men beating each other up is for time to decide . |
| 28 | The trial had begun on Jan. 27 , when the four men had each been charged with " complicity to commit genocide " ( Bobu , Manescu and Dinca in their capacity as members of the former permanent bureau of the Romanian Communist Party executive political committee ( EPC ) and Postelnicu in his capacity as a candidate member of the EPC and former Minister of the Interior ) for failing to oppose at meetings on Dec. 17 and 22 Nicolae Ceausescu 's orders to fire on demonstrators . |
| 29 | Battalions that had lost four hundred men received half that number of replacements , in driblets . |