Example sentences of "the men [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He says that all he knows is that the men came this morning and took away the guns , ’ said Nikos , Owen 's Official Clerk and Office Manager . |
| 2 | The men know that . ’ |
| 3 | But early that spring , these adventures seemed unlikely if not impossible : the men had little quinine , their boots and clothes were worn thin , and when attack was unlikely they went around barefoot . |
| 4 | The rest er er standard two to standard six , were all male , but lo and behold before I got to standard five , that had all become women and the men had all gone to the into the services . |
| 5 | None of the men had any . |
| 6 | If they get there the men plot all kinds of strategies to get them out of such posts . |
| 7 | ‘ But all the men use some . ’ |
| 8 | I spent the evening in one of those awful cellar bars where all the women were blonde and laughing , and the men wore that uniform . |
| 9 | The men asked some very technical questions and during conversation it turned out that one of them had worked on the construction of the Visitors ’ Centre and another had been employed on the construction of one of the Scottish nuclear power stations . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Brian Clough and his management team are the men to do that for us . ’ |
| 11 | The men firing those guns , manning the walls , shooting from the high galleries might not amount to much more than half that number . |
| 12 | Could n't the men do more ? ’ |
| 13 | The men took more liberties and joked with us . |
| 14 | Tarred timbers covered in grit — unlike the gates at Southampton — protected the caisson 's sides , and the men took some cover behind these timbers ' projections when the Penhouet ships opened accurate fire with their 20mm guns . |
| 15 | None of the men made any attempt to escape when they struggled , subdued and shaken , on to the bank . |
| 16 | ‘ This afternoon — I presume you 'll be helping the men finish this morning 's work ? ’ |
| 17 | Talking at all above the screech of the wind was difficult and he had to make his explanation short : ‘ Mariana , the men running this coup set up roadblocks this morning to pick up any of the Government trying to get into Belpan City . |
| 18 | Hardly any of the men making these rash bids expected to live to pay for them . |
| 19 | Anyone in any doubt of the need for providing such support will find a gruelling account of the problems faced by carers of elderly people in Margaret Forster 's novel , Have The men Had Enough ? |
| 20 | Peons made sacrificial meat and the men smelt this on Gomez so that his command of them was tentative . |
| 21 | The men have these huge leaps , and the women are very expressive above the waist . |
| 22 | After several minutes the men found some cash and left . |
| 23 | The men found this uproariously funny . |
| 24 | It was the attempt by the men to boycott these employers , energetically undertaken , that had eventually led to the collapse , through debt , of the Northern District Board ( the predecessor of the STA ) in 1847. " - In later years several of the STA 's " forward movements " , that is claims for higher pay or shorter hours , began in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | He watched , attention fixed on –he screen , as the men stripped each other and the blond pushed the bearded man face down on the floor , bound the exposed balls with a thin strip of leather and pulled . |
| 26 | She added that she did not see the men doing these things to her sisters because : ‘ I was in the dark cupboard then . ’ |
| 27 | The men stayed all day with the family , who were tied up in different bedrooms , calmly eating and watching television as the hours ticked by . |