Example sentences of "from [adj] men 's " in BNC.
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1 | No matter how corny the characters in the picture postcard parish of Rathcullen , I recognised the fields , I knew the smell of Guinness from drunk men 's breath , and my father wore a cap just like Darby O'Gill 's . |
2 | Er of course it took a bit of time to learn as to er you know the the rotation who the to take the tea from various men 's buckets , they was buckets , or wher wherever they had their stuff in their bags . |
3 | The resulting collection Linton introduces by way of a comment from Michael Montaigne : ‘ I have gathered a bouquet of flowers from other men 's garden 's : naught but the string is my own . ’ |
4 | It is a wise man who learns from other men 's mistakes , but a wiser man who learns from his own . |
5 | Before the case was finished Dalgliesh would have received a dozen pictures of Lorrimer 's personality , transferred like prints from other men 's minds . |