Example sentences of "[pron] man to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Snow White group was a favourite target of the other groups with taunts such as ‘ eat the apple ’ and ‘ she likes her men to be 3ft 10 ’ . |
| 2 | They like their men to be useless . |
| 3 | Only a tiny 7% of the male population do not shave regularly which is great news for women who prefer their men to be clean shaven . |
| 4 | He says Lineker 's agent Jon Holmes openly canvassed for his man to be made skipper of England . |
| 5 | The hit-squad 's leader had kept below rather than find himself in confrontation with Louis or be seen by his men to be subservient to or afraid of the Latino leader . |
| 6 | Charles was probably justified in suspecting bad faith : he and his men made a swoop on Bernard , who narrowly escaped with his life , leaving his men to be killed or captured and his baggage-train seized . |
| 7 | ‘ Counsel your men to be discreet , ’ Carew continued , ‘ we do n't want Kinsella to suspect that the police were involved . ’ |