Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] men [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scarlet execution cart was waiting for us , the skulls of hanged men decorating each side . |
| 2 | The Pilgrim Trust 's survey of a sample of unemployed men included some 170,000 wives and it was calculated that these women ate only 70 per cent of the calories consumed by men , rather than the 85 per cent recommended by dieticians . |
| 3 | ‘ All of these men know these things ’ , he said . |
| 4 | The halving in aggregate attendance at football matches , which has taken place between the early 1950s and the early 1980s ( from almost 40 million to under 20 million ) , is a result of the disinclination of married men to spend most Saturday afternoons watching live football . |
| 5 | More than four out of ten men gave this as their reason for taking temporary work and only 16 per cent claimed they did not want a permanent job . |
| 6 | ‘ There are plenty of medical men to do that , and few to practise here , where the need is so great . ’ |
| 7 | Between the ages of 65 and 69 , 37 per cent of lone women and 62 per cent of lone men had some sort of occupational pension . |
| 8 | Some women are said to be ‘ dangerous ’ if they act as many men do all the time . |
| 9 | In The Fourth Man , a 1979 film-noir -ish comedy about a homosexual writer , he highlighted a scene with two men kissing that does n't spare the saliva ; in Spetters , he knee-capped American audiences with his depiction of Holland 's teenagers and , in his sword'n'sorcery adventure Flesh And Blood , his damsel in distress Jennifer Jason Leigh is abducted and raped — and enjoys it . |
| 10 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |