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Example sentences of "men and [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1	Its exact details can hardly be measured , for the official statistics , such as they were then , fail to capture all the movements of men and women within countries or even between states : the rural exodus towards the cities , the migration between regions and from town to town , the crossing of oceans and the penetration of frontier zones , the flux of men and women moving back and forth in ways even more difficult to specify .
2	Right across the village , men and women stooped over , black forms against a world of white , shovelling great heaps of snow and tumbling them to the ground in frothy white cascades .
3	There is a tendency for men and women to move in with siblings or younger relatives in extreme old age ( Peace , 1986 , p. 63 ) .
4	Hordes of little old men and women sit around all day doing little else , and that is how they get walnuts .
5	‘ Them be the Barnes family , ’ whispered Tom as a group of men and women came on in behind them .
6	Men and women came out on the dock to watch as the great brown sails went up , with only a six-year-old boy at the winch , and the Grace , bound for Ushant , smelt the open sea .
7	A group of men and women came in to share the meal called elevenses .
8	The Council men and women came in and took their places at the Star Table .
9	The men and women lying around on the ground were roughly shaken awake .
10	Half a dozen silent men and women sat around smoking : old tins served as ashtrays .
11	Men and horses went down like ninepins before them , in a tangle of waving limbs , flailing hooves and broken lances .
12	Groups of men and youths hung about the street corners .
13	Appropriately , this castle was the setting for his last exhibition , early this year , of the fabulous ‘ Winter images ’ that he had recently devoted his energies to — tableaus of men and animals created out of ice and snow .