Example sentences of "[prep] men [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 15 per cent of women and 10 per cent of men avoided it altogether . |
| 2 | Over the years , as a young detective he had lost weight at a time when a lot of men put it on , and now looked thin and wiry , reproducing in himself , as he half knew , the family look . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , so old Wilson used to tell us that lots of men opposed it because they felt it would lead to women in trousers sitting in pubs drinking pints of bitter . |
| 4 | ‘ Over-careful ’ was almost the top-scoring quality — with 48 per cent of men choosing it , and nearly as many following up with ‘ indecisive ’ and ‘ too slow ’ . |
| 5 | Buckley says she has never been aware of a problem of discrimination in the company , at least in a corporate sense , ‘ but I think a lot of men found it a problem ’ . |
| 6 | Where self-confidence is concerned , although most groups of men reckon it 's a quality women value , there are significant differences in the extent to which they believe they possess it . |
| 7 | Even the most honest of men find it surprisingly easy , through the film of time , to recall their own actions quite differently from the way in which objective evidence makes it clear they in fact occurred . |
| 8 | This is borne out by research on birth rates since 1952 : higher earnings for women depress the birth rate , higher earnings for men raise it ( Ermisch 1990 ) . |
| 9 | It is the nature of the work that produces a tendency among men to see it as essential and elemental , all those images of men down in the abdomen of the earth , raiding its womb for the fuel that makes the world go round . |