Example sentences of "[num] men have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 2 | He knew of petty quarrels between men of different tribes which , inadequately composed , had grown ; in one case thirteen men had been killed . |
| 3 | When the destroyers , HMS Volage and HMS Saumares , ran into Albanian mines while passing legitimately through the Corfu channel between Albania and Corfu , 44 men had been killed ; in 1948 the International Court of Justice at the Hague had ruled that the Albanian government should pay £843,947 compensation . |
| 4 | In all six men had been trapped by the fall . |
| 5 | For the corresponding period in the previous year 818 men had been accommodated , plus 22 women and one child . |
| 6 | During five days of evidence , the jury heard that during the two weeks previous to the fire , the three men had been heard in an Oban pub discussing burning the house and how Ferguson and Vennard talked about the splitting of the insurance money . |
| 7 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 8 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 9 | All three men had been accused of manslaughter and arson after Rebbecca and Emma Harper died in the barn fire at Uckington near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire last year . |
| 10 | Three men have been jailed for a total of eighteen and a half years for a violent robbery on a jewellers shop . |
| 11 | Three men have been jailed for a total of eighteen and a half years for a violent robbery on a jewellers shop . |
| 12 | As investigations continue into the killing of P C Patrick Dunn , three men have been released . |
| 13 | Three men have been arrested and have been sent to Exeter where the original theft of the vehicle took place |
| 14 | Rawlinson continued to throw in his troops and by midday some 100,000 men had been engulfed in the carnage . |
| 15 | FIVE men have been committed for trial to Portsmouth Crown Court on charges relating to an alleged incident involving violence at The Queen , Greatham , on New Year 's Eve . |
| 16 | Five men have been arrested in a dawn raid on a caravan site . |
| 17 | Eleven men have been jailed for up to ten years each for their part in the Strangeways prison riot . |
| 18 | Eight men have been found guilty of running one of Britain 's biggest drug trafficking organisations . |
| 19 | By 1968 , 15,000 men had been trained for handling civil disorder . |
| 20 | Shepherd 's Bush police said yesterday that two men had been charged after the match in unrelated incidents . |
| 21 | Last night police said two men had been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and one had also been charged with possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life . |
| 22 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the parallel government said that the two men had been kidnapped . |
| 24 | The bond between the two men had been established quickly , but was being strengthened with slow , deliberate precision . |
| 25 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 26 | Two men had been left behind , marooned on his orders for mutiny : they had a supply of wine and hardtack , and guns and shot ; but when other , later expeditions entered the Bay they found no trace of them . |
| 27 | Two men had been arrested in Liverpool and their informer in Belfast named them as the assassins . |
| 28 | The woods were extensive and the two men had been walking about the property for over an hour . |
| 29 | Two men have been killed and seven people injured in crashes in Co Derry . |
| 30 | Two men have been killed by undercover troops in Northern Ireland today , and they 've been named as top I R A hit man and former Sinn Fein coun , and a former Sinn Fein councillor . |