Example sentences of "man who were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further important point is that on two scores — the overall symptom score and the resistance score — there was a difference between the normal women and a group of normal men who were also given the inventory . |
| 2 | Finally , the men who were here had no choice but to stay on , send for their wives and settle in Britain . |
| 3 | ’ The provision of the men who were eventually to take over responsibility for the management of an enterprise was regarded as a matter of making sure that enough young men entered business at the foot of the ladder , ’ wrote Falk of the old days . |
| 4 | In a further letter , dated 28 June 1323 , the pope reminded the bishop of Aire , who was acting as an intermediary between Lestrange and Jeanne of Artois , that Gaston II was very young , and was surrounded by young men who were easily swayed to unbridled and ill-considered actions . |
| 5 | The two policemen had n't expected to be followed ; they were concentrating on their efforts to find the men who were now hiding in the covered area amongst the seats that were tilted upright in their stored position . |
| 6 | They turned their horses away from Saxe-Weimar 's men who were now edging the treeline with deadly musketry . |
| 7 | as Unionists were denied the opportunity to criticize men who were still regarded as enemies . |
| 8 | But what is striking is not so much the fact that Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer were , after all , persons of some intellectual stature , than that men who were once regarded as the Aristotles of the modern world have practically vanished from sight . |
| 9 | Should a traveller , returning from a far country , bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted ; men who were entirely divested of vice , ambition , or revenge ; who knew no pleasure but friendship , generosity , and public spirit ; we should immediately , from these circumstances , detect the falsehood , and prove him a liar , with the same certainty as if he ha[d] stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons , miracles and prodigies ( quoted in Freeman 1984 : 95 ) . |
| 10 | It was the dying days of the citizen Army , the young men who were reluctantly called up to serve their Queen and country — to learn how to fire a gun , to march in step and to use contraceptives when they took out the girl from the NAAFI on Saturday nights . |
| 11 | Last year for instance Barton Shield skipper Colm McCarroll brought Wilson , Winston and Kehoe junior , the men who were subsequently to win the National youth title , into his line-up and Derry battled their way through to the quarter-finals before losing to Belvoir Park . |