Example sentences of "both men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men made for the Mediterranean eventually , for reasons which may have involved a respite from British miseries and injustice . |
| 2 | Both men lived through the Depression , but Fraser 's depressions were only indirectly linked with the hardships of people he knew . |
| 3 | Both men are interested in the subject of remembering and forgetting . |
| 4 | For both men , Czechoslovakia is both painful and blissful . |
| 5 | Both men nodded . |
| 6 | Both men were dubious about how long someone would be able to endure in the winter , equally they could think of no alternative . |
| 7 | Both men are reporting what seem to them the facts of the case , and they are the more confident about doing so because no Englishman has arisen to rebut their arguments . |
| 8 | Though I think neither Eliot nor Pound explicitly used the idea of ‘ the threshold ’ , the idea is surely implicit in the criticism of both men ; and it is an implication that in our own criticism , and our own practice as verse writers , is almost universally ignored . |
| 9 | Both men are unhappy about the maladroit way the matter has been handled , and are in the mood to refuse to be interviewed . |
| 10 | By then both men were heavy-legged and Mason 's inexperience at this level of boxing looked like becoming a decisive factor until he closed in and sent the American down with a short right to the temple and then a following left hook . |
| 11 | Both men took heavy blows and by withstanding the best of the American 's punches Mason at least emphasised that he has a strong enough chin . |
| 12 | Both men are unhappy about the maladroit way the matter has been handled , and are in the mood to refuse to be interviewed . |
| 13 | In the course of an acrid , 30-minute press conference , called at midday and starting at 3.42 , both men implied that the deal could be resurrected at some time later : ‘ I might consider selling my majority shareholding in the future , ’ said Edwards , ‘ but certainly not this season . ’ |
| 14 | Both men no doubt were vexed by the unorthodoxy of their own birthplaces . |
| 15 | Hawksmoor , who had already had a great deal of experience as an architect , was brought in as clerk of works and it is quite likely that the design was by both men . |
| 16 | ‘ There were two of them , ’ she said , ‘ both men , one of them was white , the other was probably a Pakistani . |
| 17 | Like Mass , both men were caught out . |
| 18 | Both men were silent for a moment then , clutching at a straw , Herr Nordern said , ‘ It must be something to do with you . |
| 19 | Millions more around the world will swell that figure to the largest gross revenue in boxing history , for a contest where both men admit their best days are behind them . |
| 20 | Both men were betraying one of the most feared occupational hazards amongst MPs — debater 's droop . |
| 21 | Both men were expelled ‘ for gross political mistakes in tackling social tension , especially the events of November 17 , 1989 ’ , when police clamped down on a pro-democracy demonstration . |
| 22 | It remains England 's highest opening partnership — 359 , both men not out . |
| 23 | Both men plan to appeal . |
| 24 | Both men have been identified as broadly supporting the repatriation policy and Mr Hurd , who again appealed for voluntary agencies , including the United Nations , to end their boycott of the monitoring process , may be willing to expand the delegation . |
| 25 | Both men have been prominent in the academic debates which have helped to make the current revolution in historical studies one of the most significant of the many upheavals Gorbachev has sanctioned . |
| 26 | Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked . |
| 27 | The old system , both men argue , spawns weak governments and corrupt parties . |
| 28 | At the end of their eras , both men became the subject of investigations : Mr Milken 's in court last year and Morgan 's in front of Congress 's Pujo committee in 1912–13 . |
| 29 | Like many other particulars , James and John are both men ; ‘ this ’ and ‘ that ’ may both be triangles . |
| 30 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |