Example sentences of "men [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be able to feel this hum when you say ‘ Many men make much money ’ , ‘ homme , farmm , hamm ’ , lingering on the ‘ hum ’ in these words . |
| 2 | These ten men change each year . |
| 3 | None of the men made any attempt to escape when they struggled , subdued and shaken , on to the bank . |
| 4 | In short , the phylogenetic basis of the id seems most definitely to be a set of basically egoistic and anti-social sexual and aggressive drives which cause all men to see each other as sexual rivals and which make sons desire the death of their fathers for possession of the mother and sisters . |
| 5 | There was a second 's astonished silence in which the two men regarded each other . |
| 6 | The two young men regarded each other thoughtfully . |
| 7 | ‘ At 28ft the front window cracked and I had a job getting up again' he writes , the Prime Minister did not approve of such risks by senior officers , but the CCO felt his men expected such leadership . |
| 8 | Men maintained some contact with their place of origin and might remember it in their wills . |
| 9 | A sizeable number of old and younger men provide such care for their own elderly relatives and , in our generation , we have seen some men assume ‘ mothering ’ tasks for their children to a greater degree than in the past . |
| 10 | After several minutes the men found some cash and left . |
| 11 | Estimates of the number of deaths among men caused each year by alcohol abuse range from 8,000 to 25,000 |
| 12 | ‘ This afternoon — I presume you 'll be helping the men finish this morning 's work ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Men smoke more marijuana in the South and eat more fast food in the North . |
| 15 | Men basically feel really erm threatened and intimidated like by women loving each other or by men loving each other , you know . |
| 16 | We must ask ourselves , ‘ Why did these three young men undertake this task ? ’ |
| 17 | Everything was alike ; men resembled each other as if they were all brothers . |
| 18 | The two men measured each other . |
| 19 | The heavy two-handed sword fell with them , sliding along the floor as the two men wrestled each other in a deadly silence broken only by the sound of fists meeting flesh and their hoarse breathing . |
| 20 | Left alone again the two men faced each other , but Joshua gave Denis no time to think about his next move . |
| 21 | The two men faced each other . |
| 22 | Inside the room , the two men faced each other across John Coffin 's desk . |
| 23 | the objects to which men give most preference , their ideals , proceed from the same perceptions and experiences as the objects which they most abhor , and … they were originally only distinguished from one another through slight modifications … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These objective inequalities were reflected in subjective appraisals ; for example , men envisaged less difficulty in obtaining emergency cash than women ( Taylor and Ford , 1983 , p. 190 ) . |
| 26 | Maybe they 're allowing men to put this burden on them and accepting it too readily . |
| 27 | ‘ I sometimes think we 're quite adorable , and sometimes I wonder why men get that look in their eye . |
| 28 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 29 | A few days later two men sized each other up none too discreetly in a Park Avenue office . |
| 30 | ‘ Your men know this area best . |