Example sentences of "the men [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Joe , Mr Wopsle and I walked behind the men through the village and out on to the marshes . |
| 2 | Blufton introduced the girl as Selina , his personal assistant , and the men as the producer and scriptwriter of a new film project about King Arthur . |
| 3 | As the men at the windlass rope heaved and a long timber started to rise up and swing , the wheel on the pulley squealed like an injured dog and the man stationed at the top of the wall took a stickful of thick grease from a pot , leaned out , and worked it into the axle . |
| 4 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 5 | ‘ Wait for the beer , ’ he said , and while they waited exchanged jovial insults with the men at the counter . |
| 6 | PETER Cameron-Webb , one of the men at the centre of the largest Lloyd 's scandal in history , yesterday failed in the Appeal Court to overturn a judgment against him for £5million . |
| 7 | ‘ Long before my time , when my great-grandmother was a young girl , she would bring the men at the mill their dinners hot under a covered tray , ’ he said earnestly . |
| 8 | Or would he join the men at the roadblock on the bridge ? |
| 9 | One of the men at the roadblock , bored , dropped a stick into the water and watched it float under the span . |
| 10 | Polanski was also known to some of the Hollywood crowd through its inter-connection with the swingers of London and the skiing crowd who populated Gstaad and Aspen , notably his friendship of one of the men at the hub of the English scene , Victor Lownes , the cool , urbane and towering figure whom Hugh Hefner had appointed vice president of Playboy International and despatched to London to oversee the new playboy Club in Park Lane . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , he followed this up with some unkind comments about — ‘ A lot of bleeding convicts ! ’ — which was heard by enough of the men at the front to turn the yard into a snarling cockpit again . |
| 12 | The menacing tone of Luke 's voice caused a few of the men at the bar to stiffen expectantly : they could sense trouble coming . |
| 13 | ‘ The men at the frontier post do n't seem to have covered themselves with glory either . |
| 14 | As the Russians entered , the men at the windows would abandon their posts , whilst their comrades behind the table fired a final volley . |
| 15 | By now the men at the window had fixed bayonets , and fell upon the invaders , driving them back temporarily until sheer weight of numbers decided the issue . |
| 16 | He advised the ladies to walk towards the town and wait for the men at the first hotel . |
| 17 | The men at the headman 's house decided , on behalf of the village , that every dog that had been out in the night , possibly taking part in the fight and helping bring down the rabid dog , would have to be killed : and all bitches on heat , whether they 'd been inside or out , must also be killed . |
| 18 | When they were close enough they threw the ropes up to the men at the front of the crowd , and all of them pushed from behind . |
| 19 | And this could be a major blow for Oslear and colleagues Ken Palmer and John Hampshire , the men at the centre of the ball-changing drama . |
| 20 | ‘ the men at the top of organizations will tend to be ambitious , shrewd and possessed of a non-demanding moral code . |
| 21 | The men at the bar moved to give him room . |
| 22 | The men at the ramparts had often tried in vain to tempt one of the stray artillery bullocks near enough to capture it , but at long last , towards the end of the first week of September , an old horse was captured at the banqueting hall and put to death . |
| 23 | He had ordered the men at the north-facing ramparts and at the churchyard wall to fight their way back through the Residency from room to room towards the hall , from where a dash could be made for the head of the connecting trench ; once safely inside the trench the north-facing cannons of the banqueting hall , firing over their heads , could give them covering fire to complete their withdrawal . |
| 24 | The men at the head of coalition Liberalism were therefore execrated as dangerous . |
| 25 | Tillett 's Tea Operatives had only been spurred into action by the activities of an outspoken gas stoker named Will Thorne who had succeeded in organizing the men at the great Beckton gasworks in East Ham into forming a Gas Workers ' Union in May 1889 . |
| 26 | She pretended not to see David Rosen who appeared on the step as they drove off to talk to the men at the place where they gathered before work . |
| 27 | Each of the men at the meeting was powerful in his own way . |
| 28 | A yellow-jacketed police constable — one of the men at the security barrier — followed sheepishly behind the two men with the cases as they moved into the reception area . |
| 29 | One of the men at the head of the table brought his hand down hard on the table-top and the sound ceased . |
| 30 | ‘ So , we are agreed , ’ said one of the men at the head of the table . |