Example sentences of "the men [vb past] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men agreed to do their utmost to prevent desertion at American ports . |
| 2 | In the first reading Wing Commander Angus Morris told the congregation the men had met their death at an appointed hour |
| 3 | The men had sent their families to the relative security of a schoolhouse a mile down the road . |
| 4 | The men had exaggerated their black eye-sockets with kohl and mascara . |
| 5 | His hand slid from her face to her shoulder and he glanced towards the bar where the men had brought their drinks out to see the very last of this unusual event . |
| 6 | The men had won their prestige from work , from scholarship , in the public arena ; and they sat outside on the pavement benches , publicly debating politics , theology , and history . |
| 7 | Rescue services arrived to find the men had abandoned their boat which was sinking and were stranded on rocks cut off by a rising tide . |
| 8 | In desperation , some of the men tried to dig their way through to Stourbridge to get coal for heating . |
| 9 | When , in time , Mariot announced that she would now seek her couch , and the men rose to stoop their way out of the ingle-neuk , Agnes remained sitting . |
| 10 | As the men moved to take their seats on the sides of the rafts , each one was handed a paddle . |