Example sentences of "the men at the [adj] " 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 | Eventually the men at the long table sat back in a happy state of having eaten and drunk as much as they could possibly hold . |
| 3 | It would have been interesting to know what the men at the front thought of this account of their endeavours . |
| 4 | He advised the ladies to walk towards the town and wait for the men at the first hotel . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | For even he , the most sceptical perhaps of all , had been persuaded in the end by the professional judgement of the men at the Zoological Society , and most particularly by John Gould . |