Example sentences of "the men " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the men were held in Kenitra Central Prison . |
| 2 | But there was absolutely no news of the men . |
| 3 | It seemed that the men pooled their money to help survive . |
| 4 | The men have been locked up in their cells since day one of their imprisonment . ’ |
| 5 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 6 | The men in the bush are watched by gods who are barely a jump above their heads : these white gods are more remote . |
| 7 | Divorce was seen to be harder on the women than the men , who could get out of their family responsibilities so much more easily with divorce than without it . |
| 8 | ‘ But all the men use some . ’ |
| 9 | There were only three divisions in the city — east , west , and central — and each of us in our own division knew we were the élite ; for just as the men in the west were certain they were best , so the men from the east remained convinced of their own superiority . |
| 10 | There were only three divisions in the city — east , west , and central — and each of us in our own division knew we were the élite ; for just as the men in the west were certain they were best , so the men from the east remained convinced of their own superiority . |
| 11 | ‘ The men can sit and camp in the lounge and we girls will slave over a hot stove . |
| 12 | ‘ They fired every house and they ran the men down like deer . |
| 13 | Beside the Cross one of the men had torn a paper into little bits and scattered them , to a groaning catcall from the crowd . |
| 14 | Cameron recognized several of his workment from Aberfeldy and warmed to their comradeship — he had talked little politics with them ( in the aftermath of the big treason trials , caution had seemed advisable ) but he had passed on his newspapers and one of the men came from Lochaber like himself . |
| 15 | The men wore short kilts of grey homespun , their hair was flowing or knotted at the back , most were bearded : the uplanders had arrived from the Glen of Keltney . |
| 16 | The men were hotching for action , but what response could be dragged out of those granite walls and that oak door ? |
| 17 | As the men at the windlass rope heaved and a long timber started to rise up and swing , the wheel on the pulley squealed like an injured dog and the man stationed at the top of the wall took a stickful of thick grease from a pot , leaned out , and worked it into the axle . |
| 18 | He looked round the littered site , at its dried browns and darkened greens , and considered the men who were sitting round quietly talking and blowing smoke at the swarming flies . |
| 19 | Since the busy fencings and ditchings of the previous thirty years , the men who farmed the best land had flourished all the more ; they could afford the rents for the greater acreage under the plough . |
| 20 | A rising sound between a crow and a cheer came up from the men . |
| 21 | As soon as the gentleman came round from the stables on his horse , the lad pelted down town and across the building sites to alert the men . |
| 22 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 23 | The men from Foss were restive . |
| 24 | I fell in the brown water and fouled my frock , and the men never heeded , of course , but there was the devil to pay when we got home at night . ’ |
| 25 | But just suppose — if they do send in dragoons with guns to take the men away — we are helpless , then , you know we are . |
| 26 | Maybe we can talk quietly to a few of the men — one of the masons from Ballechin has a son who must be twenty . ’ |
| 27 | Stand with the men . |
| 28 | The men laughed in Cameron 's face and they both turned away . |
| 29 | She played back the messages on her answerphone and jotted down the numbers and names of the men who had called : Tony , Ali , Geoff , and Junior . |
| 30 | She thought about the men she had met . |