Example sentences of "of men [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of men rounded the plantation , going at a run towards the lake . |
| 2 | Allowing for the fact that not every man would hear the call , and that the laird would wish to leave a number of men to guard the place , he then bumped up the arithmetic to suppose nine hundred inhabitants . |
| 3 | Again there was a painting of men scrubbing the floors . |
| 4 | Speaking at Midnight Mass at St Patrick 's Cathedral in Armagh City , Cardinal Daly said a small group of men had the power to call a truce and ensure it was fully observed . |
| 5 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 6 | The desire for marriage and a family results in thousands of men leaving the priesthood . |
| 7 | Turn it over to a couple of men to take the place apart , or leave it alone . |
| 8 | Similarly , organized bodies of men walked the marshes of the Thames , setting out in the early morning mist to assess the repairs required , which were paid for by a charge known as ‘ wallscot ’ or ‘ scottage ’ . |
| 9 | Extensive as the network of government may have been , kings delegated much power to the handful of men holding the office of ealdorman ( or earl ) , who often came from families rich in land . |
| 10 | Rather , they appear when the uses of power are matters of controversy , and they are weapons in the struggles of men to enjoy the benefits and escape the burdens of power . |
| 11 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 12 | Fishing boats , barges and lighters were busy around the ships , full of men smashing the ice with picks , hammers and mallets . |
| 13 | Another potentially radical strand in the story of church planting comes from a group of men leading the north-west England area of the Elim Pentecostal Church . |
| 14 | He was not only an outstanding golfer , but was one of those rare breed of men possessing the gift of total empathy with all who came into contact with him . |
| 15 | When cattle were not used , groups of men beat the soil with hook-shaped implements called mamoties . |
| 16 | Contrast the situation which pertains when a group of men celebrate the eucharist together , as has often been the case for example in a monastic setting . |
| 17 | A rope attached to this gaff enables a number of men to drag the whale into shallow water and hold the thrashing animal while others kill it with knives . |
| 18 | ONE group of men turned the tide of the Gulf War against Saddam Hussein — and they did it by tying up thousands of Iraqi soldiers in a deadly , sophisticated and top secret game of cat and mouse in the desert . |
| 19 | ‘ Whereas the police , no doubt , would continue to draft in innumerable squads of men to trample the landscape and inspect the ground , and exude such an aura of busyness and continuous reorganisation that even the most cynical observer could not fail to be impressed . ’ |
| 20 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |