Example sentences of "the men " in BNC.
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| 31 | In them , she again described the work she did and the success she had achieved ; she gave details of her height , weight and false hair colour ; she even made a comment or two - as some of the men had in their letters — on her sexual preferences . |
| 32 | I remembered the threatening looks of the men of the family , the attentive stares from the ones in the street , my mother 's harsh way of talking : and I repeated it to myself . |
| 33 | Was it because I was out of reach of the prying eyes of the men in my family and their questions about my comings and goings , and far from my mother 's interrogations about why I slept on my stomach , or why I took so long in the bathroom ? |
| 34 | We reach the station at the same moment as an elegant train loaded with ladies preening themselves in their furs and hats , the men all wearing dark suits . |
| 35 | One of the myths Eleanor would speak against was the idea that socialists wanted to have women in common , and the men who made these accusations , she said , were the owners of the means of production anyway . |
| 36 | If it is not the Women 's Tennis Association , spurred on by the vocal support of Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles demanding equal prize money at Wimbledon and the French , then it is the voices on the men 's side who want prize money for the top tier of their tournaments doubled to $2m . |
| 37 | In my view , to have 32 seeds , even in the men 's singles where there is far greater depth of talent than among the women , can not possibly be justified . |
| 38 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 39 | As the shadows lengthen , the men can be seen standing around with a pint of beer in hand , while mothers keep watchful eyes on the kids and catch up on the latest gossip . |
| 40 | The mixed doubles is another throwback to a different age , with the men and women now spending most of their careers following separate paths around the world . |
| 41 | In the men 's singles , Hunter proceeded to the final without conceding a set and ended wildcard entry . |
| 42 | The men 's final began in truly exciting style with an abundance of winning shots on both sides and looked to be a most promising match until play had to be suspended at 3–2 . |
| 43 | The ladies final , somewhat overshadowed by the men 's final , was resumed in the evening because of rain . |
| 44 | Unfortunately , the ladies doubles final had to be cancelled , but the men 's title was taken by Pashley and Carswell . |
| 45 | In addition to winning the Nomura Challenge Trophies , the Men 's and Ladies ' champions will win a luxurious weekend break , with guest , at the exclusive Chewton Glen Hotel in the New Forest . |
| 46 | A new combination of Mike Hayes ( Herts ) and Derek Howorth ( Surrey ) defeated the Men 's 45 top seeds John Cooper , brother of former Wimbledon champion Ashley , and partners from Australia to proceed also to the semi-final where they lost in straight sets to the new champions , Burns and Weaver , also from Australia . |
| 47 | Tony Starling partnered A Swetka of the USA to reach the semi-final of the Men 's 70 doubles . |
| 48 | In the consolation events , Brigitte Newbury won the Ladies ' 50 singles , while Harri Gibbon was runner-up in the Men 's 70 singles . |
| 49 | The men first . |
| 50 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 51 | Anyone seeing such works of sculpture for the first time can not fail to note the harmonious line described through the perfectly proportioned bodies of the men and women portrayed . |
| 52 | These are the full stops to a paragraph that give the audience an opportunity to sum up — as it were — how the Bride 's hair is cut ; why the men convey the Groom to the Bride 's house ; how the Bride and Groom are blessed by their parents ; and so on . |
| 53 | If we continued to exclude children , we are effectively excluding many women , we are excluding families and in many ways the men as well . |
| 54 | It was hard , perilous work which , by rockfall or dust , killed most of the men employed in it before their retirement age , and it left Evan with the gasping lungs of the silicosis-sufferer . |
| 55 | And the wise ones ad the men of learning shall say : ‘ Lord , why dost tho , receive these ? ’ |
| 56 | ‘ Any damn fool … could think of questions ; it was answers that separated the men from the boys . ’ |
| 57 | The men who tried to civilize these shaggy and uncouth marginalians by bringing them news of civilization have left a certain number of translations that are better reading today than are the works of the ignorant islanders who were too Proud to translate . |
| 58 | Try as the leadership might to erase what happened , nothing can be done to change the one fact on which the future of China turns : the men who ordered the assault on Tiananmen Square will surely die long before the youth they ordered to be killed . |
| 59 | Human rights organisations maintain that the men have been wrongly convicted and are being victimised for being members of the leading opposition political party . |
| 60 | In one 10-year period from the mid-1970s it rose from just over £30,000 to nearly £250,000 , and analysts calculate that in 20 years - when all the men it was specifically designed to help will be long dead — it will be worth well over £1m and increasing in value at more than £100,000 a year . |