Example sentences of "[adj] men [conj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not filled with crusty old men and women poring over the paintings ; the whole building had a bright and open atmosphere , instead of the sullen brooding one she 'd expected . |
| 2 | Nowhere has there been a greater example of ordinary men and women witnessing to their faith by their service to the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | In my mind 's eye , I see grey-faced men and women going to work on Friday morning . |
| 4 | In her study of Chilvers Coton , a ribbon-making village , Jill Quadagno found more elderly men and women living with their children in 1901 than in 1851 . |
| 5 | Overnight a highly suspect communist renegade was transformed into an eternally youthful dissident communist , a beacon of hope for a generation of young men and women rebelling against the anarchronistic irrelevance of an outmoded educational system and the serial alienation of a post-industrial society . |
| 6 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |