Example sentences of "men [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insecurity I felt was due to my lack of true religion , and was like the small change of the exalted pessimism of our faith , the pessimism that can drive men on to do wonders . |
| 2 | The policy of drafting reservists was put into abeyance when the conflict in Croatia eased , and the new call-up has brought hundreds of angry men on to the streets insisting they will not fight . |
| 3 | Parents take comfort in the fact that even though their children are egging men on to beat the hell out of each other , it is all in the cause of good triumphing over evil . |
| 4 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 5 | He gathered his great strength , remembered the lessons he had learned abroad , and drove himself and the weary men on to do what must be done . |
| 6 | Very likely it was he who had set these men on to him . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , so do I. They tell me Davout 's got some of his best men on to it . |
| 8 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 9 | There were a few moments ' stalemate , then more petrol was thrown , this time into the warehouse , and two men with a bren gun were left to cover the building as Peter Young led his men on . |
| 10 | ‘ Walter 's My Secret Life , the fictional narrative of a debauchee , constructed male desire as an illicit but physiologically based animal appetite , which drove men on to fresh excess . |
| 11 | They 're taking the same men on . |
| 12 | I know that Ipuky is putting his own men on to this . ’ |
| 13 | Guscott 's score came with 14 men on , but the new law that allows a temporary substitute meant that Paul Burnell had a few minutes on the pitch before Wright returned to see the Lions leading 12–5 . |
| 14 | Guscott 's score came with 14 men on , but the new law that allows a temporary substitute meant that Paul Burnell had a few minutes on the pitch before Wright returned to see the Lions leading 12–5 . |
| 15 | For the first time — and it 's about time — we see Bertie Wooster as he really is , a bungling destroyer of sensibility , eagerly and inanely driving his men on to set up an advanced cricket pitch 100 miles behind enemy lines . ’ |
| 16 | Player Manager , Glenn Hoddle , pushed his men on by joining in the attack . |
| 17 | She will send her best men down . |
| 18 | ‘ They fired every house and they ran the men down like deer . |
| 19 | Simpson silk ties down from £25 to £12.50 , Derek Rose dressing gowns down from £99 to £44.50 , Church 's Oxford shoes for men down from £125 to £85 . |
| 20 | It is the nature of the work that produces a tendency among men to see it as essential and elemental , all those images of men down in the abdomen of the earth , raiding its womb for the fuel that makes the world go round . |
| 21 | ‘ And explain why you sent armed men down to pick up Blagg yesterday ? ’ |
| 22 | I 'll send the prints men down for these . ’ |
| 23 | The dragonwoman had quite recovered her composure now , and looked levelly at Hrun as he threw the two men down on the steps before her . |
| 24 | But the the regular men were getting more money than but er And then there used to be men down there , storing the slate , regular men on the outside , my father was one of them . |
| 25 | It was n't until I threatened to bring my men down to discuss it with him at the Swan Inn that he had a change of mind . |
| 26 | The man looked round the bar before marching over to a group of men down at the end of the counter . |
| 27 | Dods had his men down for extra training during the week and that had made all the difference , he said . |
| 28 | There groups of men along with youths over the bar mitzvah age of thirteen would gather at eight o'clock , and to the muttered accompaniment of the special blessings each would kiss his phylacteries , wind one around left arm , palm and second finger , encircle his forehead with the other , and then join in reciting the ritual prayers . |
| 29 | The women of Baldersdale , as in all similar communities , went with their men in to the fields and byres and worked shoulder to shoulder . |
| 30 | The damages being unpaid , he sought to levy execution upon Hansard and to put the sheriff 's men in to distrain goods to the value of the judgment . |