Example sentences of "men who have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's the nasty business of disposing of stock , and having to fire men who 've been with me for years . |
| 2 | I asked her what made people do things like that , and she told me that 99 per cent of men who 've been abused turn into abusers . |
| 3 | Workers at a nuclear research plant are being assured they 're NOT in danger of developing prostate cancer , despite a new report claiming an increased risk for men who 've been in contact with radioactive material . |
| 4 | Some of them were loyal and trusted men who had been with the Prince for years and , as well as relying heavily upon them , he liked them . |
| 5 | Even as the people run away in terror , the fire of God 's anger , which destroyed parts of the camp in Numbers 11 , now consumes the 250 men who had been the closest supporters of Korah in his bid for power . |
| 6 | When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together . |
| 7 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 8 | To make sure that their knowledge of enemy military procedure was correct and up to date , Buck had also recruited a couple of Afrika Korps men who had been taken prisoner . |
| 9 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 10 | In 1943 , men who had been invalided out of the Pioneer Corps formed an ex-servicemen 's club , identified by the initials NB — non-British . |
| 11 | The remainder were men who had been arrested at Ardeene Hall in Rathcoole . |
| 12 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 13 | The men of No. 1 Troop , all volunteers , included Territorials ( men who had been civilians doing part-time army training ) , some regulars , and reservists like Lance-Corporal Weatherall who were recalled to the colours . |
| 14 | He had the notion that she was mocking him , and the anger he had felt earlier returned in a different form , a determination to excel , to beat other men who had been with her . |
| 15 | Gay men who had been shown a stiff cock in a public lavatory by a policeman , and were then promptly arrested for showing an interest , were n't slow to remind us that , thanks to Queen Victoria , lesbianism was not illegal . |
| 16 | In the summer of 1529 , during an outbreak of the plague in southern England , three men who had been students together at Cambridge found themselves by chance staying in the same house in Waltham . |
| 17 | He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night . |
| 18 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 19 | Men who had been unsuccessful in the search for a day 's work drifted into the dining rooms to pass the time away and many sat there on the bench seats , grateful for the warmth and a friendly chat . |
| 20 | Following in the footsteps of an earlier Departmental Committee , the Advisory Council painstakingly analysed the subsequent criminal careers of men who had been flogged , comparing them with those who had been subjected to other forms of penalty . |
| 21 | On the Unionist side men who had been fed with the heady talk of absolute resistance mobilized to resist what they now saw as the sell-out of the Southern Irish Unionists . |
| 22 | Slowly , like a black storm cloud that builds up ominously on a distant horizon , the second of the two Men who had been feeding the eagles advanced on Woil . |
| 23 | 1988 ) included 77 men who had been disabled for up to 15 years and the second included 42 men and 10 women disabled between 20 and 50 years ( Zarb et al . , |
| 24 | Billy Smallbury , one of the men who had been in the cart , climbed up with a bucket of water , to throw water on Gabriel and keep the flames off him . |
| 25 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 26 | He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others . |
| 27 | They were both amazed to find that because of the war scare young men who had been quite content to go out with them on their terms suddenly wanted to start serious courting . |
| 28 | Had she really expected him to think like David or Ben , or many of the other men who had been a part of her adult life ? |
| 29 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 30 | Here the object was to ‘ rehabilitate ’ the ‘ hard-core ’ Mau Mau men who had been captured . |