Example sentences of "[num] men [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better still was the situation for Congregationalists where seven out of every ten men had some form of higher education . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Though Lewis was not friendly to Catholicism , the two men had much more of a playful kind in common . |
| 4 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 5 | The two men stared each other out before Peter gave a sudden exclamation halfway between anger and defeat , and started for the door . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But two men prevented this , one indirectly , the other by force of arms : Rodrigo del Bivar and the Almoravid chieftain , Yusuf ibn Teshufin . |
| 8 | Two men held each of the prisoners . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Left alone again the two men faced each other , but Joshua gave Denis no time to think about his next move . |
| 11 | The two men faced each other . |
| 12 | Inside the room , the two men faced each other across John Coffin 's desk . |
| 13 | The two men measured each other . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Battalions that had lost four hundred men received half that number of replacements , in driblets . |