Example sentences of "men [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were earthenware pots for sale , and men rode through the crowd on horseback . |
| 2 | Of the affected men exposed to the live microbe , 11 revealed antibodies against Pruteen in their blood , which in one case was detectable four years later . |
| 3 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 4 | Three men catching on the off side , a slip , gully and silly point . |
| 5 | Women , children and old people fill 50kg baskets ( increasingly being replaced today by plastic containers ) for the men to carry to the lorries which transport the grapes to the wine lodges in Funchal . |
| 6 | Confident that their management would have been monitoring progress closely , the men depended on the judgement of their supervisors . |
| 7 | ‘ In the meantime , my dad had arrived at the house and spotted two men hanging around the ditched vehicle . |
| 8 | We are allowing our four men to remain at the Palace . |
| 9 | He ordered a dozen men to remain in the house whilst the rest of the company set about the business of rousing the neighbourhood with enquiry . |
| 10 | Bridbury also suggests , from the admissions to the freedom of the boroughs , that the ranks of the citizens were being widened , and that even at a time when rural conditions provided more incentive for men to remain in the country than at an earlier date the towns were still able to attract them ( 61 , pp.62–4 ( Tables , 65–9 ) ) . |
| 11 | WHEN MEN GOT TO THE SUMMIT |
| 12 | In the morning , Scott , three other men got into the moon rocket . |
| 13 | Both before and after April 15 attempts continued , especially through the mediation of the Arab League , to find a solution to what was increasingly viewed as a political rather than a legal dispute , centring on whether Libya would agree to extradite two men indicted by the UK and US authorities in November 1991 in connection with the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am airliner [ see p. 38599 for this and for separate French efforts to extradite other Libyans ] . |
| 14 | Three bored black men sit in the back of a mini-van . |
| 15 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 16 | What did the men think of the W I when it first started meeting . |
| 17 | Paddy Ashdown gives the impression of an officer exhorting his men to go over the top and kick a football towards the enemy lines and to die bravely against unbeatable odds . |
| 18 | Forty Guardsmen in the battalion attend the promotion course ; 4 Company was selecting their best men to go on the course later in the year . |
| 19 | Macready had men posted on the sidewalks to protect his customers ' money on their way to the casino . |
| 20 | Four barricades , three of them protected by cannon , were built at the ends of the main streets , and 200 or 300 men posted at the bridge over the River Ribble , but no defences were built there . |
| 21 | The controversy surrounding the work of Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov , chief corruption investigators with the USSR Procurator General 's office , came to a head on April 18 when the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to refuse a request by the Procuracy that it rescind the mandates of the two men to sit in the Congress of People 's Deputies , so that they might face criminal charges relating to coercion of suspects and witnesses . |
| 22 | By romantic the authors mean , in this context , that the passions of men joined with the beautiful forms and great forces of nature and that men identify with these elements . |
| 23 | Both men lived through the Depression , but Fraser 's depressions were only indirectly linked with the hardships of people he knew . |
| 24 | The dead man has n't been identified but neighbours say two men lived in the cottage … both school teachers . |
| 25 | The dead man has n't been identified but neighbours say two men lived in the cottage … both school teachers . |
| 26 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 27 | The three vehicles jerked to a stop in line abreast and the two panting men halted alongside the one driven by Bob Wallace , the Fire Chief . |
| 28 | But for some , particularly in a generation whose men fought in the trenches , marriage was a short interval before widowhood . |
| 29 | Greater unity would strengthen the weakest link in the chain , the village minister : ‘ When sneerers and wonderers ask [ him ] , ‘ Hath any man brought him ought to eat ? ’ it will soon be made clear that good men eat at the table of Divine plenteousness . ’ |
| 30 | There was , he added , powerful and overwhelming evidence to make the case that the three men stopped in the taxi were the same men at Primity Crescent and guilty of all the charges . |