Example sentences of "men [verb] not [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middle class legislators failed to confront the fact that large numbers of industrious working class men did not earn enough to keep a wife and children . |
| 2 | She also knew that , generally speaking , good , worthy men did not look flashy and glamorous , let alone theatrical ; on the other hand , many rats were as good-looking as they were confident . |
| 3 | Now I am well aware that times have changed and in these more liberal-minded days such a remark might pass with only a raised eyebrow or two , but in 1944 men did not use four-letter swear words in front of girls , be they ever so lowly — and they did n't come much more lowly than we were . |
| 4 | Men did not get rich through running as they did through boxing . |
| 5 | Men did not have this problem . |
| 6 | I ought to add , perhaps , that gay men do not regard this film with nothing but sad , solemn recognition — the characteristically gay male urge to mock and undercut what one genuinely and deeply feels , what Dyer brilliantly calls ‘ the knife edge between camp and hurt ’ , can be evidenced by pointing out that one of London 's most crowded and cruisy gay bars is called ‘ Brief Encounter ’ , though one is , alas , unlikely to meet anyone resembling Trevor Howard therein . |
| 7 | Men do not reciprocate this support . |
| 8 | So , all men do not hate all women ! |
| 9 | Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development . |
| 10 | Women learn at an early age that most men do not like angry women living in the same house . |