Example sentences of "men [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEVERAL P&O Marathon Men successfully completed this years ' London Marathon — each in their own style . |
| 2 | Throughout the century , rather more males than females were born , the ratio remaining relatively constant despite beliefs that the proportion of male births increases after wars in which the mortality of young adult men greatly exceeds that of young adult women . |
| 3 | This sharpness of rhyming is used at the end of the 2nd stanza to emphasise the fact that the sun toiled in vain as men just destroyed each other . |
| 4 | Ted joined the Palace from Hull City in December 1911 and immediately scored a hat-trick on his debut ( one of only four Palace men ever to achieve this feat ) at West Ham on 30 December ( 6–1 ) , and then repeated the feat a week later when Bristol Rovers came to The Palace ( 4–1 ) . |
| 5 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 6 | Despite massive strides made by women , men still occupy most of the powerful positions . |
| 7 | Although Dolben was probably not interested sentimentally in Hopkins , he admired him and his poetry , and the two young men deeply influenced each other in both their verse and their intentions of becoming Roman Catholic converts , an ambition Dolben had not fulfilled at his death . |
| 8 | But , more than the muddlers , the embusqués , the profiteers and the defeatists , of all the excrescences growing at the rear , the fighting men probably resented most of all the so-called bourreurs de crâne . |
| 9 | Men also provided some support for their relatives , usually minor property repairs or help with an allotment , but the volume of this was much less . |
| 10 | The analysis at the University of Surrey by Sara Arber and her associates ( financed by the ESRC as part of their Ageing Initiative ) of the 1980 General Household Suney suggests that elderly men also provide such services to a greater degree than has been assumed ( Gilbert et al. , 1989 ) . |
| 11 | However , men sometimes used this distinction to avoid thinking how to satisfy their partner physically as well as mentally . |
| 12 | In datasets from different countries men consistently report more partners than women , and the British data show smaller differences than many others ( T W Smith , paper presented to American Sociological Association , Cincinnati , 1991 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ P'raps we should n't encourage those dockers ’ and carmen 's union men ter use that back room fer their meetin 's , ’ Fred suggested despondently . |