Example sentences of "several men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the sex in the original text survives but the producers are aware that fictional nipples are being counted by the kind of heaving bodies which consist of several men in suits . |
| 2 | And in the faculty he was surrounded by several men of substance with much the same opinions though with less hardness in their advocacy . |
| 3 | There would have to be several men involved in the racket , McCloy himself , two or three men to commandeer the lorry and incapacitate the driver as well as Hatton . |
| 4 | Mrs Xoliswa Falati was reported last week to have been involved in an eviction dispute with Mrs Mandela , wife of the African National Congress leader , and to have telephoned a newspaper seeking help , before being driven off in a car with several men . |
| 5 | When reporters arrived at the house , they were told by neighbours that Falati had left in a car accompanied by several men . |
| 6 | In the shallows several men were pushing what looked like triangular bamboo ploughs through the water . |
| 7 | Several men reached forward with long-handled rakes to clear the surface . |
| 8 | At the bar stood several men , well-dressed , hair slicked back , sharing the knowing sympathy of lions waiting until something passed that struck them as worth killing . |
| 9 | In subsequent camps , several men experienced visions of foreboding . |
| 10 | Yet for all their meanness , we learn from the minutes that by the end of 1907 nine holes were open , as was the clubhouse , and that several men , ladies and boys had been elected as members . |
| 11 | They overlooked a platform on which several men were standing . |
| 12 | Jim Almonds ' jeep caught fire and several men were wounded . |
| 13 | A riot in 1694 at Hatfield Chase in the Isle of Axholme is described by George Stovin , who was born the year after the events described : ‘ Whilst the corn was growing , several men , women and children of Belton and among others the said Popplewell 's wife encouraged by him — in a riotous manner pulled down and burnt and laid waste the thorns and destroyed the corn . ’ |
| 14 | Several men were killed during construction of the tunnel . |
| 15 | Today , several men would spend a considerable time erecting steel scaffolding before such a job would be attempted . |
| 16 | He was one of several men from the Midlands in Palace sides of the early and mid-1920s and had joined us from Coventry City in July 1922 , as part of a complex six-player exchange deal negotiated between the clubs by Palace boss Mr Edmund Goodman . |
| 17 | Several men , all of them at the end closest above them , and peering . |
| 18 | ‘ But I probably saw several men like that in all this trainload . |
| 19 | Several men , navy with gold braid in evidence , turned towards him as Delaney walked over , eyes automatically glancing at the geography and configurations on the plastic : Atlantic , beyond the equator . |
| 20 | The St Quintin family provided employment for several men not directly concerned with farming , land agent , gamekeepers , water bailiff and woodmen . |
| 21 | Several men were convicted by a jury even though the evidence which was laid before the court to support the charge was inconsistent . |
| 22 | They said several men were helping with inquiries . |
| 23 | Nothing was achieved and several men had to be left ashore as they were unable to swim to the boats , whose RNVR crews would not beach for fear of damage to the crafts ' hulls . |
| 24 | Bob Burtenshaw , realising they must at least silence the ships lying inside the dry-dock , south of the caisson , took several men with him along the wall , firing their pistols down into a tanker undergoing a refit . |
| 25 | ‘ did loiter ( or solicit ) ’ Two police officers will keep observations for prostitutes and to prove this point their evidence should contain words to the effect that ‘ the accused walked slowly up and down High Street five times stopping and talking to several men . |
| 26 | Not only that , on the stage was a long table , and yes you 've guessed it , among the dignitaries were several men . |
| 27 | Several men were splitting the hairy husks on iron spikes driven into the ground . |
| 28 | Citrine was thus delighted when , after several men from the industry had refused to serve under him , he persuaded Sir Henry Self to join him as his deputy chairman in charge of administration . |
| 29 | In the same counties , with the addition of Cornwall and Rutland , the median for eighty-five esquires was about £60 compared with £80 from 124 feodary surveys ; several men were worth upwards of £200 and clearly correspond with the first group of gentlemen in the table . |
| 30 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |