Example sentences of "men [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the truth was emerging ; the British , though pushing forward with undiminished tenacity and courage , were suffering a disaster of gruesome proportions , with hundreds of thousands of men perishing for little territorial , and no strategic , gain . |
| 2 | Two possibilities were developed to deal with man 's new homelessness in the world , his exposure , as Foucault puts it , to the finitude of the event , which attempted to draw all these heterogeneous histories together again : either men sought for some fundamental law through which a new general history could be constituted , or historicity as such was defined in terms of ‘ man ’ — whether as progress , economic laws , or cultural totalities . |
| 3 | I discovered , in the forbidden books , that on other worlds men live for many decades . ’ |
| 4 | He did n't love her , and never would but , as Timothy had once said , few men married for that reason . |
| 5 | As long as the men time I mean , perhaps it would take sixty men working for half an hour . |
| 6 | A royal pardon was granted to all men outlawed for such offences before the king 's coronation in 1216 , and also for all assarts , purprestures and waste in the forests before then . |