Example sentences of "man [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But people who knew the man say they think the council did n't do enough to find out if he was in need of help . |
| 2 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |
| 3 | You put them in a little brazier thing , like a tiny cup , and they smoulder — the man said they 'll scent the whole room . |
| 4 | Every family with a young man knows they may lose him to the war , and they are as furious about it as a swarm of bees . |
| 5 | The men say they will picket the pits at Ystalyfera and Cwmllinfell . |
| 6 | His men say they are gathering things ‘ for fair distribution ’ , though nobody believes them — a particularly strange compromise of evil with morality , for Middle-earth , where vice rarely troubles to be hypocritical . |
| 7 | Two thirds of men say they choose their ties to impress their wife or girlfriend |
| 8 | According to a survey carried out by Brylcreem , 43% of British men say they have sensitive skin . |
| 9 | This is clearly a better place to sell razor blades than Azerbaijan , where the men say they shave only once a week , or , if they want to look their best , every other day . |
| 10 | Relatives of the men say they were wrongly convicted , as they had acted in self defence . |
| 11 | The men say they 're still considering the possibility off civil action against the police and whether to take their case to the European Court . |
| 12 | Jay 'd had enough men to know they treat a woman 's body with anything from contempt and rage to inept uncertainty and fear ; once in a blue moon only , with real fascination and tenderness . |
| 13 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 14 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 15 | Afterwards , both men claimed they should be given the place in Rome though Smith admitted to being ‘ embarrassed ’ by his effort . |
| 16 | Than when the ambulance men arrived they also tried to revive it . |
| 17 | See so after men finished they would , there 'd be a steady turnround all the time . |
| 18 | This is all of a piece with the way some men assume they may stare at women , stand close to them and invade their physical space by touching . |
| 19 | Many men find they can get the same sort of pleasure by using sex toys like dildos or butt plugs up the bum . |
| 20 | Both men believe they are best-placed to set the agenda for Langbaurgh in the Nineties . |
| 21 | According to Luke , Argentine men feel they 've failed to demonstrate their virility unless they have a mistress , and that only their wives get married , they remain single . |
| 22 | I think it 's a stigma that a lot of men feel they ca n't show that they 're depressed or they 've got a problem so they 'll pick up a ph , a phone . |
| 23 | Marketing their clubs as exclusive establishments with a championship-standard course and a five star hotel-standard clubhouse , the money men felt they could pitch their joining fee at £10,000 or £25,000 and even charge £1,000 annual dues on top . |
| 24 | The visit raised morale and the men thought they would soon be free ; after all , they were no longer entombed . |
| 25 | He 'd take whatever he wanted because he was a man , and in this country men thought they ruled supreme . |
| 26 | The men claim they were not offered new sales posts with Swithland Motors , of Mountsorrel , Leics , after it took over the Birmingham-based Colmore Group in March last year . |
| 27 | Thirty-five per cent of London men claim they cook most evening meals . |
| 28 | Yet they lived — and all men knew they lived . |
| 29 | How many men do they think I 've got ? ’ |
| 30 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |