Example sentences of "[adj] men [Wh pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Mr Honecker warmly supports the old men who crushed the uprising in Tiananmen Square , he seems to have no stomach for a brutal crackdown . |
| 2 | It reminded him of pirates and buccaneers and fearless men who roamed the high seas in search of adventure . |
| 3 | This curious mingling of piety , enthusiasm and sadistic cruelty is recorded time and again in the vernacular literature of the age — sometimes naively , sometimes satirically , for there were evidently plenty of reflective men who saw the paradox , and pondered on it . |
| 4 | Martin Kenneth Munn , of Shaw Street , admitted he was one of three masked men who raided the bank in the Diamond , Rathcoole , on February 9 , 1993 . |
| 5 | We have seen that he personally undertook the defences of the south coast when the king campaigned in the North , and that he wrote in warm praise of the king 's energy and practical wisdom , and ordered prayers for his protection against the malice of evil men who hated the king s good qualities . |
| 6 | A man who wished to resist such turning could insist on keeping to the subject ; and forceful men who had the character of genial good nature could get away with open rebuttal of this kind ; but not all people who interrupted with open rebuttals acquired or maintained that character . |
| 7 | The majority of Athenian citizens were working men who needed the meagre payment that was eventually made for carrying out public duties to compensate them for the loss of daily earnings . |
| 8 | Even after stripping out the jingoism that tends to impose itself on British attitudes towards the game , the fact remains that it was a host of late-Victorian engineers , merchants and military men who took the rudiments of football abroad with them , almost as missionaries . |
| 9 | The tragic musical story of a group of viciously exploited young men who rode the back of the drug-frenzied rock-shag monster for two full years to emerge at the end bruised and bloody and battered but changed — changed from grubby little knobsessed small-town caterpillars into beautiful , brilliantly SPIRITUAL butterflies . |
| 10 | The men of 602 were part of that group of young men who gave the greatest gift of all in 1941 , when the Battle of Britain stopped the Nazi war-machine over the fields of southern England , the Scots accounting for 130 of the 175 enemy aircraft downed . |
| 11 | At last he rose and barked an order at one of the young men who placed the ladder lying on the ground against the scaffold , then gestured dramatically at Athelstan . |
| 12 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 13 | These swept most of the old pro-Jordanian figures from office , and brought in younger more radical men who recognized the PLO as their national leadership . |
| 14 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |