Example sentences of "[art] men [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legs belong to the men who 've organized the hunt . |
| 2 | One of the rising stars of motor racing has been to meet the men who 've put him and his car back in the running for success . |
| 3 | Cloud was advancing steadily again over the moon 's face , and its shadow rolled across the mitred stones of the abbots , and covered the dark inward movement of the men who had followed him up from the water . |
| 4 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |
| 5 | She took the first one and began to skim through it , reading the cold , scientific sentences — sentences that occasionally broke out of the narrow straight-jacket of accepted reporting , unable to conceal the excitement of the men who had written them . |
| 6 | The centralised technical control , exercised by the chief engineer 's department at headquarters , meant that the men who had accepted these posts were to find their room for independent and creative action significantly more constrained than was the case for their colleagues in the Area Boards . |
| 7 | Only five of the men who had sailed from Bristol with the Hispaniola returned with her . |
| 8 | How much more pleasing to the eye and the higher senses were the gleaming unbroached jars in the pantry , and how I suddenly hated the men who had assured me that in their attentions lay my fulfilment . |
| 9 | Out of all the men who had liked her and wanted her , why did it have to be someone who thought her the most despicable of all cheats who made her yearn for something more ? |
| 10 | She played back the messages on her answerphone and jotted down the numbers and names of the men who had called : Tony , Ali , Geoff , and Junior . |
| 11 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 12 | His favourite pastime of an evening was to leaf through historical albums , studying portraits of the men who had made their mark on Europe during the past half-century . |
| 13 | He finished by telling Ho about the terrified middle-aged couple and the men who had covered the Worm 's tracks — men headed by Ray Shepherd . |
| 14 | The Attorney-General replied that the magistrate could stand before the crowd and shout for the complainants to come forward and then interview the men who had done so . |
| 15 | And it was the arrival of one of the men who had denied them victory in the past that helped to spark off the renewed challenge in 1993 . |
| 16 | The men who had marched north with Duncan to dispose of his dangerous half-brother at Tarbatness had mostly died in that battle . |
| 17 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |
| 18 | The railroad embankment was gone and the men who had cowered behind it and finally , when the water came , clung to the rails , were all gone with it . |
| 19 | The men who had killed her father and now Broom-Parker could presumably have something similar planned for her . |
| 20 | Also Branson was unable to identify the Clarkes and Bartholomew as the men who had broken into his home . |
| 21 | Among the men who had joined Dulé on Oualie were also many who resembled him in body , square-shouldered , chestnut-coloured men with good balance . |
| 22 | He gave Ranulf a brief description of what had happened but his servant , with a keen sense of survival , immediately tried to link events to the men who had attempted to attack them on the road from Leith . |
| 23 | One of them was an elderly man with white hair which had turned out to be a wig , and the CID man had remembered Matthew 's remark about the men who had burgled Moorlake . |
| 24 | Twenty of the men who had fought with Dulé that early morning died in the water , maimed by the cannonshot ; eleven drowned in the confusion of fire and shipwreck in the attack on the Rebecca . |
| 25 | First she dedicated her song that night to the man who was bleeding ( he was still in The Bar , the taxi had n't come yet ) , and then to the men who had brought their fists down on his face just two streets from her Bar . |
| 26 | They were all that remained of the men who had worked here on the Project . |
| 27 | Afterwards , he ensured the men who had accompanied him to Scotland were well before sending Ranulf off to wash their clothes and busy himself about the abbey . |
| 28 | His affection and solicitude for Dobrée , as for other old friends like Herbert Read , Philip Mairet and Frank Morley , is very touching , and he seemed now almost a grandpaterfamilias for the men who had known him so well . |
| 29 | After years of scrutinising Jesus of Nazareth , of listening to his teaching , of watching his character , of observing his miracles , after witnessing that shameful death and experiencing that glorious resurrection , the men who had known him best were sure of it . |
| 30 | Not only was it alleged that the manoeuvre had been a most un-British attack on civilian Boer settlements , overwhelming evidence emerged that it had been irresponsibly commanded with several floutings of elementary military precautions , so that the men who had died — my brother among them — had died quite needlessly . |