Example sentences of "men who [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who obey their party 's call in the House of Lords do so for the highest of motives . |
| 2 | ‘ I like men who make me laugh . |
| 3 | He was surprised to find , for example , that men who make their living out of reporting news and gossip should go away from a private lunch with him and the Princess and talk about it . |
| 4 | There are two groups of men who make our laws . |
| 5 | A , depressed men , B , men who played indoor games or C , men who take their coffee black ? |
| 6 | The National Association of Probation Officers went into Long Lartin in Worcestershire to interview and examine the personal files of men who insist they 're innocent.Anne Nankivell reports . |
| 7 | Those who bear the blame are the old men , men who know what war is like . |
| 8 | We are represented by men hungry for high political office who will therefore not rock the party boat ; men whose loyalty is to their political careers , not necessarily their constituents ; men who know nothing of rural life , for why should they , nurtured as they were in towns or suburbs ? |
| 9 | A conundrum , even for Nell : ‘ Men who wish their sexuality , or any aspect of their maleness , to be expressed … can hardly go to the P.D.s ! |
| 10 | Request : The Liberal ex-chief was asked to write a few words for ‘ Backroom Boys ’ , a book about ‘ men who distinguish themselves without excess , folk quite happy to take a pleasingly light and unimposing approach , and yet who nevertheless make a reasonably fair showing throughout life ’ . |
| 11 | Order of St. John honours two men who show they care |
| 12 | It ought to be able to offer more psychological and psychiatric help to the men who inhabit its strange , grey world ; more group work as well as individual help is acknowledged as being required by the staff , including the Probation Officer , who have a special responsibility for it , for these are men for whom the risk of reconviction is often very high . |
| 13 | The men who walk our streets as community bobbies today are equipped and ready to take them by force tomorrow . |
| 14 | The majority of hijras are men who get themselves castrated and dress like women . |
| 15 | He does see if he came amongst us and then for those four men who let their friend down through the roof , he saw their faith . |
| 16 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 17 | And there are men who dub you ‘ beautiful ’ , |
| 18 | Sheep , in contrast , are God 's creatures , and the ideal image of the men who tend them is naturally that of the Good Shepherd . |
| 19 | They are self selecting , and what we 've got to puncture is not the erm idea that the best goes forward , which is what you 're suggesting , erm but the idea of this self-selecting bit , it 's quite true that it tends to be men who put themselves forward for selection and election , and women do n't . |
| 20 | This is particularly well illustrated in the case of old men who devote themselves to providing near total care for ailing wives , many having gone through marriage with little domestic involvement . |
| 21 | Do you think God punishes men who eat their own children , Zacco 's pageboy ? |
| 22 | Come , let us leave these fruiting lovely valleys Where we have laboured , to the men who till them And start the journey to our cloud-wreathed home Where you will live with me among the gods In joy on lofty Olympus . |
| 23 | Men who believe themselves out of all danger may grow careless , and make some foolish move that can betray them . |
| 24 | We tend to take our water for granted , a turn of the tap and we have all we need , but we should consider more this most important mineral , without which we could not exist , the dry summer of 1976 proving how much we owe to water companies and the men who operate them . |
| 25 | For example the considerable criticism of the police response to domestic disputes ‘ mainly related to their failure to take effective action by arresting men who assault their wives and girl friends ’ ( Shapland and Hobbs 1989 ) is largely determined by wider social factors pertaining to the historical role and place of women in society . |
| 26 | It is men who decide what a woman can reasonably expect of life . |
| 27 | As one of the younger officers who came into the job around the time of the reorganization of the water industry , he enjoyed the additional tasks , in contrast with the more experienced men who feel their autonomy has been eroded . |
| 28 | ‘ But there are men who consider her beautiful , ’ Isabel remarked , and in the next instant could have bitten her tongue out . |
| 29 | ‘ They are conmen , confidence tricksters who teach players tricks of the trade , or intelligent men who build your confidence and belief . ’ |
| 30 | And in fact , I would not want to suggest that feminist resistance — from guerilla raids on men who call us darling to all-out war waged on institutional bastions like the dictionary — is valueless . |