Example sentences of "[pos pn] men [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their men humped coarse sacks down this narrow lane , the gritty sugar inside would wear through the hessian and rub raw against their shoulders . |
| 2 | Hearn said : ‘ The handlers of Toney and Nunn , Bob Arum and Don King , do n't want to know Chris because he is very awkward and could make their men look bad . |
| 3 | Most women 's groups are primarily concerned with political aims , they work often for the right to fight equally alongside their men to achieve political liberation , rather than fighting for women to replace men in superior positions . |
| 4 | Rather than pile all the bodies into one large mass grave , Davis had had his men dig serried rows of shallow graves and lay the bodies into them as they were , without coffins , which would have taken far too long to make . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He and his men spent three winters trapped in the ice , but sadly the drift was south as well as west and the ship was released north of Svalbard having reached a point no closer than several hundred miles from the pole . |
| 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 | Once more he was resolved upon a decisive breakthrough ; once more he was to be disabused and thousands of his men laid low in the mud of Passchendaele . |
| 9 | Earlier in the tour Hugh McGahan , the Kiwis ' captain , expressed his surprise and delight at seeing his men given comparable prominence to the All Blacks — in some northern editions of the papers at least . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The battalion 's Colonel stared at the thrashing of unseen men in the rye field on the stream 's far bank , then ordered his men to make ready . |
| 12 | Richardson said he could not understand the timing of the release of the book , ‘ Strike Bowler ’ , but would ensure that his men maintained good behaviour . |
| 13 | He sent his men to infiltrate homosexual groups and smoke out deviants . |
| 14 | Only if the chief constable expressed his order in terms such as that he considered any injury to his men to constitute serious public disorder might the courts be prepared to intervene . |
| 15 | Mr Reid , who is prevented from taking part in one of the highlights of his season by the excellent displays on Saturday of Steve McMahon and Fitzroy Simpson in central midfield , knows that victories over the top three teams in the space of eight days — City travel to Hillsborough on Saturday — will raise hopes of his men claiming third place . |
| 16 | No man gets to be called the Ángel of Death just because he tells his men to stand fast and fight . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Did any of our men get hurt ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Your men know this area best . |
| 20 | Your men cut heavy baulks of timber : oak , elm , beech . |
| 21 | Your men stopped any clearing up , naturally . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ the Doctor broke in , ‘ but have your men taken all the university ? ’ |