Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [noun sg] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad scowled at Mum when one of the removal men said to him , ‘ Yow 've got a right one theea mate . |
| 2 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't we raise the price of the tickets ? ’ one of the committee men asked . |
| 4 | One of the committee men came to the Direktor 's assistance . |
| 5 | One of the quarry men was pointing to the wrecked truck and shouting at the others . |
| 6 | Frank , one of the day men brought it in on a trolley a few minutes later . |
| 7 | He was , she realized , one of the spear men from Starr Hills ; but close to , he looked slender for a warrior , and was no taller than herself . |
| 8 | As soon as the train had cleared the tunnel the gangers found one of the lookout men lying unconscious by the side of the track . |
| 9 | The lorries waited under the hoppers to pick up their loads and after a little , one of the lorry men told him to go away . |
| 10 | Two years ago one of the lorry men had found a baby on the council dump , dead and rolled up in newspaper . |
| 11 | My word but you were n't frightened of him because you were told that he was an old man and one of the road men of the road . |
| 12 | In the confusion of explanations and apologies that followed , one of the security men rounded on the stalker for keeping the Prince out so late . |
| 13 | When one of the security men raised the subject tentatively , Ceauşescu grasped the point at once . |
| 14 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 15 | One of the ambulance men crawled in to take my place whilst his colleagues consulted with the police on the best method of releasing the driver . |
| 16 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 17 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |