Example sentences of "men who took " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , he becomes loquacious about the Stoics , ‘ men who took what came , because they knew that grumbling made no difference . ’ |
| 2 | There are hundreds of cases of men who took the most drastic and precarious actions to rid themselves of , what is after all , a minor irritant . |
| 3 | The gentle old men who took up the presidency of Lebanon had about them a streak of cold savagery that stunned even the Palestinians . |
| 4 | The 15-month-old girl was abandoned on a pavement in her car seat by two men who took her from a petrol station . |
| 5 | Some of the men who took part in this , like Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother-in-law Sir Humphrey Gilbert , were also attracted by the idea of getting lands on the other side of the Atlantic , and the success of the Spaniards encouraged them in the widespread belief that an immense amount of gold and silver was waiting to be discovered all over the Americas . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , besides the two Lochaber men who took 1st and 2nd places , there were other visitors from Ochil and Westerlands clubs , Menstries , and even North London . |
| 8 | Had Alice not warned of men who took advantage if a maid was compliant ? |
| 9 | Nithard names two of the great men who took these oaths in December 837 : Abbot Hilduin of St-Denis , most royal of western Frankish abbeys , and Count Gerald of Paris , a city which had once been a residence of Merovingian kings . |
| 10 | Men who took such actions clearly felt that they had a secure prospect of work and that they did not need to be particularly submissive to their lords . |