Example sentences of "man and they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years ago Moran loaned McQuaid money when he had started in the cattle business but now McQuaid was the richer and more powerful man and they saw little of one another . |
| 2 | With a final torrent of abuse , Maclean dismissed the man and they simply walked out of the main gate into the town . |
| 3 | Now , bent and rheumaticky and crosser than ever , Ruth and her sister Joan Young found him a figure to be pitied rather than feared , but both agreed that he was an evil-tempered old man and they felt very sorry for his only daughter Molly who kept house for him . |
| 4 | Me , a stump of a man and they wanted to make me Cesar Romero . |
| 5 | They 're going to be confused yes , very confused , I mean on the football pitch you usually get the trainer run man and they 're talking to the footballer and it 's looking at them all the time and he will ask questions , erm what 's your name ? |
| 6 | Because er , inevitably man has got ta leave their home , even if they 've had a father erm who 's been a if they 've had no father at all , they 're gon na leave and they 're gon na face a world where they have to be a man and they 're gon na have to find their own male morals , and I think the , the responsibility , basically , has got ta come to men to change not for us to change them . |
| 7 | It 's been three days now I 'm not sure though I could be wrong because I have n't slept very well I have nightmares of a man and they think it 's me but it is n't , is it ? |
| 8 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 9 | They really like Elvis the Man and they 're not out to make money . |
| 10 | but it was one man and they stuck to him , and they , they lived with them first and then they married . |
| 11 | After an eight-hour shift we went home — off duty — free men , while they in contrast went to their police houses and were available for ‘ discretional duty ’ , at the call of the system twenty-four hours a day ; proving we were independent free men and they were slaves ! |
| 12 | Almost all the workers upstairs are women , there are only two men and they are pensioners . |
| 13 | The wind blew his words at the men and they stopped , glancing at each other . |
| 14 | Douglas scrambled his men and they were airborne within minutes , roaring up into the cloud-flecked sky above the waters of the Forth . |
| 15 | I see this marvellous mechanism as giving us the certainty of immortality , for the impact of our thoughts and personality becomes imprinted in the brains of other men and they will continue in the minds of future generations . |
| 16 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
| 17 | I tended the wounds of one of their men and they took me back with them into the great Forest of Ettrick . ’ |
| 18 | They are fine men and they play a crucial role in the creative life of this magazine . |
| 19 | It was sub-divided into units of fifteen men and they worked in squads consisting of one vehicle and from two to four men . |
| 20 | The assumption that once women had freedom from fear of pregnancy they 'd like men and they 'd like sex , just like that , meant neither sex nor men nor the economics of women 's powerlessness had to change . |
| 21 | There were about thirty men and they had two prisoners . |
| 22 | where I went to work down there and in a month they put , it was amongst a shop of about sixteen men and they all had separate orders and the men had got little lads working for them , you know . |
| 23 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 24 | ‘ My friend — ’ he meant Georgiades — ‘ he asked among the men and they say he was not one of them . ’ |
| 25 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 26 | No wait , there 's three men , there 's three men and they 're all getting sent to prison but because they 've been good they 're all gon na get a wish . |
| 27 | Yeah , there 's these three men and they 're walking through the desert . |
| 28 | There 's this man , there 's these three men and they go to an hotel . |