Example sentences of "men [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the day , Tess was waiting for Angel to bring the horse and carriage , when two men passed her in the street . |
| 2 | Do you know if she has any other young men courting her at the moment ? ’ |
| 3 | As William slid the bolts the doors suddenly swung violently outwards , throwing him off balance , and before he could recover two heavily built men pinned him against the office wall . |
| 4 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 5 | Coetzee 's men lured him across the South African border and shot him . |
| 6 | ‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house . |
| 7 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 8 | ‘ If it worries you so much , Surgeon Chang , you might send two of your best men to accompany me on the journey home . |
| 9 | He does not claim to offer us some ‘ truth ’ separable from himself , but challenges men to recognise him as the one who is the truth , and the truth into which we too are brought out of our own untruthfulness when we recognise who he is . |
| 10 | But as the cockboat went aground on the sandy beach and the six men heaved it above the high-water mark , Harry saw that Sam was not with them , and by the expressions on their faces , he knew that something was wrong . |
| 11 | Since a python 's skin begins to deteriorate in quality once it has grown to about fifteen feet the largest are left alone , which is just as well as each one must be caught at night , alive and by hand , with a lamp to attract them from their lairs , and at least four men to get them into the sack afterwards . |
| 12 | Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire . |
| 13 | Only a small number of men accompanied him into the forest . |
| 14 | The man was disabled eight months after the soldiers died when UVF men shot him in the back . |