Example sentences of "men [conj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 They were touting for trade , crying out ‘ Want some business ? ’ or ‘ Want some love ? ’ at the men and groups walking through the fog .
2 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 .
3 We had been taking into the adult wards men and women suffering from the most serious fevers , encephalitis lethargica , polio-encephalitis , serious poliomyelitis , with two ‘ Iron lung ’ cases in a special isolation ward and unit , tuberculous meningitis , and poliomeningitis were also with us .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He still drew from life , of men and women filing towards the mine shaft through the snow and of miners holding lamps , bent double under loaded sacks .
7 Long Buckby had 131 men and boys working at the shoemaking craft in 1841 and no females ; ten years later numbers had risen to 273 males and 50 women and girls .
8 Twenty years later the population had risen by 478 but the proportion of the workforce employed in footwear had grown more dramatically , so that not only were 301 men and boys working at the trade but also 123 women and 118 girls .
9 In Somerset , reconstruction of the earlier topography of the county has led Christopher Norman to suggest a range of rich resources available at different seasons , with men and animals moving from the rich pasture and woodland of the Somerset Levels in summer to the uplands of Exmoor , the Quantocks and the Mendips in spring and autumn .
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