Example sentences of "[verb] the men at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tillett 's Tea Operatives had only been spurred into action by the activities of an outspoken gas stoker named Will Thorne who had succeeded in organizing the men at the great Beckton gasworks in East Ham into forming a Gas Workers ' Union in May 1889 . |
| 2 | ‘ Long before my time , when my great-grandmother was a young girl , she would bring the men at the mill their dinners hot under a covered tray , ’ he said earnestly . |
| 3 | He says the men at the base enjoy it and they 're expecting forty to fifty thousand visitors . |
| 4 | Or would he join the men at the roadblock on the bridge ? |
| 5 | He had ordered the men at the north-facing ramparts and at the churchyard wall to fight their way back through the Residency from room to room towards the hall , from where a dash could be made for the head of the connecting trench ; once safely inside the trench the north-facing cannons of the banqueting hall , firing over their heads , could give them covering fire to complete their withdrawal . |