Example sentences of "the men had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside the Cross one of the men had torn a paper into little bits and scattered them , to a groaning catcall from the crowd . |
| 2 | In them , she again described the work she did and the success she had achieved ; she gave details of her height , weight and false hair colour ; she even made a comment or two - as some of the men had in their letters — on her sexual preferences . |
| 3 | But he denied newspaper reports that the men had been involved in last December 's bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded above the Scottish village of Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 4 | The prosecution alleged that the men had been responsible of 222 acts of terrorism which it then reduced to 193 . |
| 5 | The men had sent their families to the relative security of a schoolhouse a mile down the road . |
| 6 | One of the men had his fly open and his dick out . |
| 7 | The six men were convicted of the Birmingham pub bombs in 1975 , partly on the evidence of Home Office forensic scientist Frank Skuse , who told the trial that the men had handled nitroglycerine . |
| 8 | In 1985 , a television programme revealed that the solvent Skuse had used in the test for nitroglycerine , 1 per cent caustic soda , would also have produced a positive result if the men had handled nitrocellulose . |
| 9 | The men had won their prestige from work , from scholarship , in the public arena ; and they sat outside on the pavement benches , publicly debating politics , theology , and history . |
| 10 | On the range , the men had to familiarize themselves with every form of weapon including German and Italian ones . |
| 11 | Otherwise the men had passed the time reading and keeping an eye out for aircraft . |
| 12 | Each of the men had his own lunchtime routine . |
| 13 | Mick had accelerated and the men had jumped clear . |
| 14 | The men had taken off their stiff collars , but were still uncomfortable in waistcoats and tight trousers and big boots . |
| 15 | When she was satisfied that the men had gone back to their car , Mary hurried towards Smiling Meadow . |
| 16 | On 11 August , the Field Ambulance marched out complete from Stony Stratford to entrain at Wolverton for Reading , with the satisfaction of knowing that 98% of the men had volunteered for service abroad . |
| 17 | If it burned in a blue equilateral triangle , there was 2½ per cent methane in the air and ‘ the men had to be gotten out ’ . |
| 18 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 19 | Another factor in the slowing of the rescue work was the condition of the air in which the men had to work . |
| 20 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 21 | Some of the men had been collecting driftwood and dry sticks and branches from among the trees ; a small fire was coming to life , crackling and spluttering sparks into the haze of heat above it . |
| 22 | We talked for a while about the hunt — she wanted to know how much meat we 'd eaten , what the men had talked about — and then she said she had to go and graze the cows . |
| 23 | The men had been in unknown country , chasing the boar uphill , when the rule is to chase downhill only . |
| 24 | Some of the men had brought ropes and small axes with them so that , while they were in the forest , they could carry back a load of firewood rather than returning empty-handed if they did n't get the boar . |
| 25 | In her family , the men had never walked out on their colonial responsibilities . |
| 26 | It was opened in 1951 , by which time the men had moved 400 tons of rubble , 154 tons of gravel and laid 44,000 bricks . |
| 27 | The men had disappeared from the top of the scaffolding when she emerged into the street again . |
| 28 | The gay love scenes were sensitively filmed , although the men had to wear boxer shorts for the US version as Americans are said to be touchy about testicles . |
| 29 | The men had been denied the agreed consultation period . |
| 30 | The men had Irish accents and were wearing combat jackets , she said . |