Example sentences of "men who [vb past] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Men Who Ran The Trams — The Managers |
| 2 | Even after stripping out the jingoism that tends to impose itself on British attitudes towards the game , the fact remains that it was a host of late-Victorian engineers , merchants and military men who took the rudiments of football abroad with them , almost as missionaries . |
| 3 | Together they acted as recruiters responsible for bringing together the large numbers of men who constituted the armies of the day . |
| 4 | Michael Maconochie traces the ten most expensive paintings ever , and the men who wrote the cheques |
| 5 | He took him to all the different workshops de Chavigny maintained in different parts of Paris : he let him watch these highly skilled men at work , the specialists in metalwork , the specialists in inlay work and enamels , the gem-cutters , the gem-setters , the team of men who made the mechanisms for clocks and watches . |
| 6 | The men who attacked the police on May 1st were members of an organisation set up earlier this year by something called the National Salvation Front . |
| 7 | No two coalfields were the same , but if a general pattern can be discerned from the variety of experience it is that during the first half of the nineteenth century each region largely generated its own workforce from the natural increase of its population , but that the spectacular later developments drew not only upon local men who left the farms or rural crafts and industries in large numbers but also upon the surplus population of counties from all over the British Isles . |
| 8 | But as tree crops ( coconuts , coffee , cocoa , rubber ) became increasingly important in the mercantile economy into which the islanders were drawn , so conflicts developed between the men who planted the trees , their sons who inherited them , and the matrilineal inheritors of the land on which they stood . |
| 9 | THE LAYOUT of the bookmakers ' pitches at Down Royal has long been a bone of contention , with bottlenecks the main drawback , causing frustration among the punters — and no doubt among the men who lay the odds as well . |
| 10 | The sultry air pressed heavily on the men who guarded the farms that marked the perimeter of the Dutch position . |
| 11 | In one urban area 85 children had been murdered by squads set up by business men who regarded the children as vermin who robbed . |
| 12 | You will notice I say ‘ what ’ rather than ‘ who ’ is a great butler ; for there was actually no serious dispute as to the identity of the men who set the standards amongst our generation . |
| 13 | Finally , there were merchants , the men who organized the markets that enabled the corn or flour or bread to find its way to the hungry , the wool to the weaver , fuller and dyer , the cloth to the man who needed a new costume , timber to the shipbuilder , timber and stone to the church . |
| 14 | Dent had its " coiners " , men who clipped the edges of gold coins and melted the clippings down . |
| 15 | There was no reason for a beleaguered host to be gentle when hauling two spies into their precincts , and in their anger and disappointment and fear , the men who handled the drag-ropes would have made sure , but for Lomellini , that these climbers never climbed again . |
| 16 | One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur . |