Example sentences of "men who [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herbal remedies therefore still remain very important and it is campesina women rather than men who know about the healing properties of local herbs and pass their knowledge down from one generation to the next . |
| 2 | Even he did n't consider such deeds heroic ( heroes are usually frightened men who rise to the occasion ) , but saw himself as just a reckless fool whose luck would one day run out . |
| 3 | Harsher penalties in particular could help foster a tough , ‘ macho ’ criminal self-image in the young men who predominate in the criminal statistics . |
| 4 | The men who come to the colonies from France are not always of the best quality . |
| 5 | Yes , Lynn , I left the theatre because I was tired of the life , and because I was tired of men — well , the men who come to the theatre . |
| 6 | IN THE world of pharmaceuticals it is not only marketing men who go for the hard sell . |
| 7 | The cultivation of creativity is the most important requirement of men who aspire to the highest reaches of the transcendent world . |
| 8 | Black men and white men who care for the country , and for their children 's future , are working at it . |
| 9 | Their heroes reflect their psychological needs ; disappointed by the weak father , they not only look for a strong one but try to identify with men who fulfil at the same time infantile and sadistic fantasies , such as Che Guevara or Mao Tsetung … |
| 10 | However , we have looked at the men who operate outside the Premier 's direct influence , at the men whose phone calls no one ever puts on hold . |
| 11 | We now have fifteen men who have past the medical exam and the board of trade eyesight test and are now fully enrolled lifeboat crew . |
| 12 | Flattened , frayed cigarette stubs , carefully arranged by the little men who live under the linoleum , dance about partnered by well chosen old stick of match . |
| 13 | On the domestic front , our big drive — and to date our big failure — has been to get the few men who live in the camps into the communal kitchens and to share in other tasks , like washing their own clothes , for example . |
| 14 | All the sounds of the valley end here in my room , and the women speak in front of me — of Hywel and Beuno and Elizabeth and me — and the men who work on the farm piss in the hedgerow in front of me because they all think I am dead . |
| 15 | The men who work in the hole say it is a pig to work there . ’ |
| 16 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |