Example sentences of "working men [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
2 | Again , one looks back to the nineteenthcentury origins of English literary studies , when the first pioneers and missionaries , men such as Morley and Furnivall , travelled all over the country to talk about English literature in adult education classes and working men 's clubs . |
3 | At each stop he noted down the shapes and stitch work of other traditional working men 's jumpers . |
4 | The people who founded the Working Men 's College understood all this very well . |
5 | The Working Men 's College says today , as it said a hundred years ago : ‘ We seek no greater good than education ; we scorn to justify it save by itself . ’ |
6 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
7 | ‘ In those days seeing a comedian was the last thing you 'd do unless it was in some working men 's club . ’ |
8 | That sixties period and all the stories from the era were to play a massive role in Morrissey 's subsequent lyricism and his handling of The Smiths record sleeves : the stories , the Moors murders , Viv ( Spend , Spend , Spend ) Nicholson , Elsie Tanner ( the perfect Northern character so desperately attempting to escape to a better lifestyle ) , the stream of sixties Northern imagery films ( from The Family Way through Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to The Lovers ) and the countless left-overs from the Merseybeat era now parading their former moments of glory around working men 's clubs . |
9 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
10 | The meeting at the Passfield Working Men 's Club last week was addressed by Dr. Chris Winfield , consultant physician at the Cambridge Military Hospital , Aldershot . |
11 | He was idolised in the working men 's clubs of Newcastle and delighted his fans by publicly flaunting his style . |
12 | The following may , perhaps , be typical : the parish or town council ; the parochial church council ; the Royal British Legion ; the working men 's club ( or mechanic 's institute ) ; the friendly society ( Buffaloes , Oddfellows , Lions , Round Table , etc. ) ; the history ( or preservation ) group ; the arts and crafts society ; the youth club ; the ‘ senior citizens ’ group ; the football , cricket , badminton , squash , or other sporting club ; the Townswomen 's Guild ( or its equivalent ) , the Church Recorders ' section of NADFAS ( see Addresses , Appendix III ) , and so on . |
13 | Refreshment time for members of Beacon Hill Working Men 's Club and two little boys . |
14 | I first met Paul in the Working Men 's Club days of twenty-odd years ago in Sunderland . |
15 | It was while I was attending Sally Carmichael 's dancing class that I accidentally entered a beauty contest — the local Working Men 's Club where we practised was running a ‘ Queen of Sheffield Working Men 's Clubs ’ contest . |
16 | It was while I was attending Sally Carmichael 's dancing class that I accidentally entered a beauty contest — the local Working Men 's Club where we practised was running a ‘ Queen of Sheffield Working Men 's Clubs ’ contest . |
17 | The bill had arrived just before our fifth wedding anniversary , celebrated with a rare night out at the Working Men 's Club with my in-laws and Pam and her first husband , Gordon . |
18 | I bought myself three copies of music and Malc and I trotted off to Chapeltown Working Men 's Club where a local agent , Ernest ‘ Honest ’ Johns , held weekly auditions . |
19 | Your first gig is on Sunday — a noon and night at Aldwarke Road Working Men 's Club , Rawmarsh . |
20 | Shortly after his death , I was working a ‘ noon and night ’ at a local Working Men 's Club when the top of the bill — a Welsh comic called Dave Swan — was unable to do the evening performance , as he 'd been taken ill . |
21 | It was how I 'd always imagined showbiz would be — far removed from the stark reality of Working Men 's Clubs . |
22 | The Working Men 's Clubs had made me . |
23 | And he started playing through some of the songs from my club repertoire , answering my enquiring look with , ‘ I worked with you a couple of years back , in East Dean Working Men 's Club . ’ |
24 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
25 | The committee 's enquiries involve many types of organisation , including building societies , partnerships , housing associations and working men 's clubs , in addition to listed and unlisted companies . |
26 | It 's summer 1992 , a poetry reading evening in a working men 's club . |
27 | IF THE Angry Brigade had chucked a bomb through the window of one particular Granada TV studio instead of Employment Secretary Robert Carr 's front room in '71 , the world would be free of Bernard Manning , Jim Bowen , Mike Reid , Stan Boardman , Frank Carson , and Tom O'Connor , such was the northern Working Men 's Club potential and future might of Johnny Hamp 's Comedians line-up . |
28 | Thus , the skinheads tried through their gang solidarity and exaggerated working men 's clothes — braces , boots and jeans — to symbolically recreate the dissolving community spirit of the old East End of London . |
29 | Both men helped found the First International Working Men 's Association , and both contributed to its collapse after twelve years by their attacks on all other forms of socialist thought and their feud with the anarchists over maintaining full-scale industrialization . |
30 | A mid-week meeting with a member of Diana 's circle in the incongruous circumstances of a working men 's cafe in North Ruislip outside London was the turning point . |