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Sentence Examples Certainly there are still plenty of workmen busy doing something somewhere. There will be workmen to supervise, a jillion wine glasses and bits of china to organize and store, etc. Hopes that the workmen would finish the job on Monday were dashed when they left before lunchtime, with the chimney and rubble still in place. She said the workmen, who residents thought were carpenters and joiners, have also been doing plumbing and electrical work. All builders, decorators, plumbers, electricians and workmen of whatever stripe are whistlers. On receiving the information, the Dhauliganga project team comprising khalasis and workmen rushed to help. Most claims by workmen against their employers are paid for by a trade union. One can readily understand an indemnity against claims brought by workmen in respect of plant or tools belonging to the workmen. One by one the quarries closed and the workmen were forced to find other employment. According to residents no workmen had been seen working there since last week, but they were told to expect them back next Monday. Even today workmen in Coldstones Quarry occasionally cut through old mining levels. Most of the excavation work will be on the verges but traffic management systems will be in operation on the roads to protect workmen. Staff were faced with a huge mopping-up operation and workmen were called in to repair the roof. We spent a fair bit of time up there on the roof, measuring this and that, and my father was explaining how he wanted things done to his workmen. Fairly accurate records were kept of the hours spent by the various workmen employed on the project. The leaks may have been caused by bad workmanship or by movement caused by workmen on the roof doing maintenance. The workmen are believed to have been employed by North Yorkshire County Council. The centre is closed temporarily while workmen carry out major work including the installation of a lift. The tide had reached the ship, and now the workmen labouring about the hull were ankle deep in water. Town councillors claim workmen continued with the removal even after being warned that they were taking away new crosses. Show More Sentences Skilled workmen then cut out the designs in sheet steel and hauled them to the site for assembly. He ruled with a rod of iron, but he was very fair, and would defend his workmen to the hilt if he thought they were in the right. Similarly, the 1904 workmen set molds of brick and loam around plaster casts. A group of workmen decide to kill Carson, as a warning to his class, and the lot falls on Barton to do the deed. One contractor is trying to take shelter under the claim that his maistry, and not he, has brought the inter-state workmen. And last Sunday morning, nine days after the lines were painted, workmen came back and burnt them off again. The California is represented on the marine railways next to a schooner, and both vessels are receiving fresh coats of paint by workmen. A wooden pont on empty oil drums has been constructed alongside the boathouse and ferries workmen across to the central fountain. This vast complex brought together seven hundred workmen in the organized production of various lines of metalwares. He was waiting for the workmen to get ready for the photograph when he saw this strange bell-shaped flying object in the sky. Rumour says he stood on the castle walls and yelled at the workmen to get a move on, but he still died before they finished. Hawkers tout their wares, housewives haggle and workmen of Venice's last working boat yard scrub barnacles from the bottoms of slender craft. Outside, workmen on scaffolding grind and scrape at our walls, breaking in by the millimeter and decibel. Their workmen had trespassed onto the Gregorys' property, uprooted shrubs, removed rockery stones and trampled down plants. The RSPCA officer cut the soggy moggy free from a bramble bush after she was found by workmen in the area. Bradford council workmen swept up the broken glass and rubble before shouldering it into skips to be taken away. A pensioner has been conned into handing over his life savings to bogus workmen. Mr Williams and others who write to the papers contrive to imply that council staff are uniquely undeserving idle bureaucrats or lazy workmen. Army bomb squad experts rushed to Cranfield on Monday after workmen unearthed an unexploded mortar. It was unearthed by workmen in Leeds in 1852, and the bones are believed to have been part of a Great Northern Hippopotamus. Show More Sentences Last week the householders in two estates were roused from their slumbers prior to 7 am by workmen who were asking people to move their cars. Encia workmen are punching boreholes deep into the ground to suck up oily chemicals which leaked into aquifers far beneath the surface. A spokesman for Dublin Fire Brigade said the incident occurred when workmen cut through a pipe they believed to be dry. A small army of workmen were busily engaged yesterday, in putting on the finishing touches of the embellishments. I'm now off to clear some furniture in readiness for workmen arriving early tomorrow. The stolovaya was filling up with workmen, who had to deposit baskets of tools as well as many layers of outer garments. A man was outraged to discover his car had literally been glued to the ground by workmen resurfacing the roads. Clouds of dust and a fearful racket greeted us, and hundreds of workmen swarmed over file building. Several weeks into the unadulterated joy that is a house extension, my chum is now something of an expert on workmen and their ways. I have watched enormous cranes swing across the skyline on their way to dropping great hunks of stone into the arms of workmen below. The cast consists of ill-assorted schoolboys and workmen, turned gradually into a competent team. When workmen eventually appeared at 11 am, Mr Jenkins says they were ill-equipped to clean the garden. For the past week, hundreds of lorries and workmen have passed through the castle gates as feverish activity went on inside the grounds. The employer, it was said, was under a duty to take reasonable care to supply his workmen with proper plant and machinery. A date was fixed for the work to be carried out but workmen never turned up. The door opening on to Winchester Road had been kept open for some of Monday as an electrical cord was run out for workmen outside. Now authors had to rely on a range of skilled workmen, such as compositors, proof correctors, and press operators. He was told that workmen had been trying to move the tank using a forklift truck when it had fallen and split, spilling diesel. In appreciation of his efforts, these workmen gave him a beautifully crafted cribbage board with an inscription on the back. The 1940s workmen used cement mixed with granite fragments to replace crumbling medieval mortar, but that mixture has quickly eroded. Show More Sentences Early photographs of the workmen and archaeologists show them suitably awed by their labors. Since it was out of the way of the dust, debris and workmen, it allowed Heidi to keep her hair and dress in pristine condition. Residents only knew of plans for this when we asked workmen who were dismantling the old and vandalised pieces of play equipment. It is believed some gangs have posed as workmen to disguise themselves, donning donkey jackets and carrying tools. Council workmen in Stockport have laid a new road surface over double yellow lines painted only a week earlier. In the meantime, Spencer's workmen have been cracking on with their other task of refurbishing the riverside walks. The council argue they have been working hard to resolve the issue but Charlotte is refusing to let workmen access the property to repair the damage. A welcome has been recorded at the completion of the road surface on the Mountain Road after workmen applied the tarmacadam surface on that roadway last week. With the weed-spraying business she had to cook and wash and iron and generally look after hordes of itinerant workmen, as well as her own sons and husband. In the 1960s, workmen on a hill, prophetically called Terra Amata, discovered the remains of a prehistoric camp. Having spent most of last night coughing, hawking and spitting, I really wasn't in the mood for the arrival of Lucy Smooth's workmen this morning. The drawings themselves will be used to produce the zinc templates from which workmen in the Minster stoneyard will work when they begin to carve the replacement stones. The widths of both the east and westbound dual carriageways across the flyover were narrowed to allow workmen access to repair the flyover's parapets. Inside the convention center, workmen walked the halls where, earlier in the day, world leaders paraded among their entourages. Up to 2,000 people face a second night out of their homes while Army bomb disposal teams work to stabilise a 1,000 lb Second World War bomb unearthed by workmen. Two workmen building foundations for a meeting room extension at Skipton's Holy Trinity Church discovered a gold coin which experts believed dated from the Saxon period. When the workmen take care not to agitate the massicot in placing it in the tun, they do not disseminate the saturnine dust during this operation. He could see the furnaces where he had worked, the heat from the bright, white hot metal searing the faces of the workmen as they poured and ladled it into the casting moulds. The mess the workmen had created in her normally tidy and well-organised house had driven her out and down to the local shops in an attempt to get away from them. Shipwrights now required a labour force of workmen with a different set of skills who could saw to length and fit a ship together according to plan. Show More Sentences The family of a dead 17-year-old have accused the workmen of ripping out memorial plants and a commemorative hockey stick from his grave and dumping them. The delicate procedure saw a crane winch the wooden frame on top of the building before workmen set about ensuring every beam was in the right place. The workmen, who were initially evasive about how much they would charge, used high-pressure selling tactics after calling at the pensioner's cottage uninvited. Doorstep crime includes all aspects of consumer detriment and crime including bogus workmen, high-pressure sales people, bogus officials, and distraction burglary. The workmen are busy touching things up and adjusting the projections. Further, in many cases temple overseers were laymen attached to other state services, and the necropolis workmen were frequently given food provisions by the temples. Rochdale Council street lighting team leader Dave Ralphs said workmen had to make the best of all the working days before the lights are switched on. The fatberg was removed by workmen using high-pressure water jets. He goes up to the flat and sees two workmen papering the walls. Two workmen and a mechanical shovel would sort out the whole sorry mess in one weekend at a tiny fraction of the stupid price they are talking about for a bridge. On his return he founded the monastery of St Peter at the mouth of the river Wear, importing workmen to build a church of stone and to glaze the windows. Behind the new factory for a third of a mile workmen leveled off sagebrush and tumbleweeds for a landing strip just 2.5 times as wide as the Vega's wing span. Assembly of the longitudinal framing and the other elements of the ship was accomplished by workmen lowered into position on boatswain's chairs or on hanging platforms. Elderly people are being warned about bogus callers posing as workmen. The rickety beige structure is gone, and for the last few days workmen have been pounding enormous black stakes into the ground at regular intervals. I watched workmen dismantling several ships and asked why they were taking the vessels apart, for they seemed to be very careful not to damage the integrity of the pieces. We used it to host three Mr Real Boilersuit competitions, a hilarious night celebrating our workmen in all shapes and sizes. A SECOND sink hole in a matter of days has appeared suddenly in Denbighshire forcing workmen to dig up a road. The trucker madness has been reported by horrified French autoroute workmen. Yesterday, workmen were repairing damaged windows at a newsagents at the scene of the accident on the Rhos Road and Rhos Promenade corner. Show More Sentences The workmen were all in hysterics at the antics of this 18ct plonker who was still very much wet behind the ears. We arrived home to a scene of controlled chaos, with painters, electricians, plumbers, and workmen of all shapes and colours all over the house. I was a hail fellow well met with all of the workmen at the factory, most of whom knew little and cared less about social distinctions. He was so fond of drink, that he would shamelessly accept the contemptuous hospitality of hornyhanded workmen. The site was surveyed and excavated intermittently between 1908 and 1922 by a team of workmen under the direction of Harold St George Gray. He also systematized aqueduct maintenance with gangs of specially trained workmen. When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year without employment. The Roman city was rediscovered in 1859 when workmen began excavating the baths complex. A huge amount of work was undertaken in the first summer, with an average of 1,800 workmen, 450 stonemasons and 375 quarriers on the site. Inside the impressive church, one of the most remarkable finds was discovered in 1907 by workmen, the Gresford Stone. Earlier, an official petitioned the emperor to reward workmen who had built temples in Nanjing. The catch was that Whitney's guns were costly and handmade by skilled workmen. Fortunately, no one was killed, although several workmen were injured in a mill below the structure. While under construction on 20 January 1866, part of the roof collapsed killing two workmen and injuring 30 more. Residents in Bolton are angry after workmen tarmaced only one half of their road leaving the other half strewn with potholes. Mr Harling said his Welsh dresser was scorched by tools being used by workmen during the fitting of the kitchen. In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the six workmen perform Pyramus and Thisbe. We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combination of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. It hopes to bring Designers and Workmen into mutually helpful relations, and to encourage workmen to execute designs of their own. Show More Sentences They were rediscovered in June 1885 when workmen, carrying out alterations to the high altar, found a battered lead casket immured in a niche in the north wall of the chancel. His legend recounts that he daily fed a hundred clergy and a hundred soldiers, a hundred workmen, a hundred poor men, and the same number of widows. The frame of the house was assembled in sixteen hours by five workmen. The workmen lived farther along the line, in a sort of company town, which at present greatly resembled a Western mining-camp, though ultimately it was to be a bungalow town. It was originally erected to allow workmen across the river to work in the ganister mines of Beeley Wood and the factories in the Clay Wheels Lane area of Sheffield. Robert spoke against educational reform, saying workmen needed only to learn how to do their jobs, although he made donations to educational organisations. As the tower rose in height, its weight forced the ring into the ground, and at the same time workmen excavated the earth in the centre of the ring. However, for tea, Hammond fetched fish and chips for all the workmen. Wooden huts and shops for the workmen were put up, as well as more substantial brick houses for the foremen and tenements for leading hands and gangers. The cromlech was discovered in 1869 by workmen digging for road stone. Examples from Classical Literature And that was why he replaced the Walloon and Flemish workmen by naturalized Germans! Other workmen were smoking, staring up into the sky and blinking their eyes. The workmen seated before it, break the pieces of mixed ore, called bowse in Derbyshire, with the bucker. A mere list of them will show in what the workmen are now busying themselves. In the Congo every group of native workmen is in charge of a capita, who would be designated a foreman in this country. The chartreux of Grenoble had some hundreds of their aged workmen on their pension list. It was cherry-picking time and he was out among his trees superintending a large force of workmen. They are making great exertions to christianise the class of workmen, the great majority of whom are not even nominally believers. Finally, a medal was struck in commemoration of the event, and presented to the workmen. Under this system the company makes contracts with the workmen at a fixed price for coal, deliverable during several months. Perhaps the most impressive sight of all was the disbandment of workmen from the yards. The man on the edge of the pit who was holding the guide rope attached to the swinging derrick was caught in the rush of workmen. After the ceremony the workmen were entertained at dinner, which was followed by highland games and dancing in the ballroom. The workmen who had been engaged for work at the Grange had been snooped for work at the Hall. For this reason, Ilocano servants and workmen are sought for in preference to most others. Stephenson was heard to say, by some of the workmen, that he could repair it. They must have been master workmen whose fingers and whose ancient forges worked those delicate and lacelike traceries. Was a confederate of lupin's, like the workmen who flung that bag at our heads. My eldest brother went to learn the tinning business of the Major's workmen. All this time Denys was behind his mantelet with another arbalestrier, protecting the workmen and making some excellent shots. Show More Sentences The workmen were at the gate to see him off, and were mightily proud of him. They may be forced by the competitive system, as many contend, to underpay their workmen. He not only built ships, but he improved the naval architecture of his subjects by inviting workmen from the great Italian ports. Wedgwood had not only to educate his workmen, but he had also to educate the public. Mdrie Gautruche was one of the wenching, idling, vagabond workmen who make their whole life a Monday. I suppose Mr. Callahan is wondering what sort of workmen to get next, since his white-collar class has left, apparently. He was brutal and overbearing with the workmen, but humble in the presence of his superiors. Lo, in the very day of your fast ye find a business to do, and all your workmen you overtask. Most of our workmen are putting every ounce of strength into this urgent work for their country, loyally and patriotically. He paid the workmen eight cuartos a day, and got them from other pueblos, too. He is the skilled person who makes them, and of all skilled workmen he is the rarest. Scarcely any industry can grow fast enough to reabsorb into skilled or semi-skilled positions the displaced workmen. For months beforehand workmen were employed in the renovation and redecoration of the Abbey and its precincts. A whole tribe of workmen were hurriedly completing the furnishing and redecoration of the palace. He learnt the trade of stonemason, took jobs, and kept workmen. Then she got one of the workmen her husband was at that time employing about the hotel to mend the wall. This ladder would do admirably, unless the workmen had taken it away. Going round a hole where the workmen were slaking lime, he stood still with the architect and began talking rather warmly. Next in place we will marshal those workmen in cutlery, who have breathed a fatal disorder into their lungs with the impalpable dust of steel. The workmen pulled and chipped and lifted out piece after piece. Show More Sentences At first, to be sure, the workmen showed a quarrelsome disposition. In the cigarillo manufactory about 2000 workmen find employment. The time we want workmen most is in the early morning and at closing time. He would get work in some shop and become friends with the other workmen and would be indistinguishable. No grains are crushed or damaged by the feet or shovels of workmen. This has a cutting board resembling that used by the hand workmen. Four or five years ago, some workmen who were digging foundations for a house came upon this interesting relic of a long-departed age. But during this work of many weeks he had taught his workmen how to dig. The lime was burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible. Our workmen and soldiers are large in physique, but dwarfed of intellect. Also, Bill Totts was a trifle inclined to late hours, and at times, in saloons, to be good-naturedly bellicose with other workmen. A band of workmen, who were sawing down a toadstool, rushed away, leaving their tools behind them. And that night, coming out of the cannery, he was interviewed by his fellow workmen, who were very angry and incoherently slangy. The workmen were of unequal capacity and were unequally paid. Farther away some workmen were pounding chalk stones and tempering the clay in a space enclosed by hurdles. Had the workmen dug six inches deeper, they would have found the hoard. The forecourt was cordoned off as workmen arrived to clear parts of the roof which had been ripped down. Roquat the Red went every day into his tunnel to see how the work was getting along and to hurry his workmen as much as possible. An improvised litter was just being borne along by two workmen. These frames were painted by one of Melozzo da forli's workmen. Show More Sentences The girl's defiant attitude only incited the workmen to jeer the more. Through some glasses from the roof of the Ship I saw some workmen pull down the match-boarding, but I couldn't make out what the structure was. The foundries and dockyards of Algiers teemed with busy workmen. The workmen made a great noise with their hammers, heading the rivets. It was harvest time, and Pori went out to oversee the workmen. He also brought in English workmen to teach the uncivilized Danes. They had an alehouse boy always in attendance upon the workmen. You never, any of you, made a proper use of the arsenal workmen as we did. Seated among a crowd of workmen on a back bench I was one of his audience. The afternoon sun was warm on the five workmen there, busy upon doors and window-frames and wainscoting. On one side, lit by a dull lantern, a space has been left clear for the workmen. Coasting seamen and bay sailors they mostly were, although there were many 'longshoremen and waterfront workmen among them. The firm established perhaps the first benefit society of workmen. There were cottages for the workmen and a fine house for the wharfinger, as well as inns and stables. Once more the workmen began the work of building the minster. The shearing-off of the bur is a source of great danger to the workmen. We protect the workmen from unfair competition, not the masters. In making some alterations, the workmen came upon an old dungeon, which had been, for many years, built up and forgotten. Our profits are vanishing, our machinery is standing idle, our workmen are locked out. It is this porch that most strongly shows the hand of Moorish workmen. Show More Sentences And he measured ten double handfuls of pearls, diamonds, and other gems, many of which, mounted by the most famous workmen, were valuable beyond their intrinsic worth. He found himself at the bottom of a staircase, down which, behind him, a procession of workmen were carrying a sort of stretcher, covered with a white sheet. It was twelve o'clock before I got any satisfactory hint of such a building, and this I got at a coffee shop, where some workmen were having their dinner. The colonel collected workmen to deepen the banks, and by the help of his memory, he copied in his park the shore where General Eble destroyed the bridge. They dived from a narrow catwalk into bins of warming walnuts, swam when the workmen filled the 5-foot-high cherry vats with water, and burrowed into mountains of gunnysacks. They listened, breathless, when she told them the house in Esplanade Street was crowded with workmen, hammering, nailing, sawing, and filling the place with clatter. There was a rude board coffin on a cart at the door, and workmen, assisted by the police, were thinning a road through the gaping crowd in order that they might bring it in. The audience learns about the progress of the church's construction from the conversations between the three Cockney workmen, Ethelbert, Alfred, and Edwin. In these busy times, when so many great undertakings are in progress, people like myself have so many workmen in so many places that we are always on the flight. Cold workmen told to 'jump up and down' A TEESSIDE paviour claimed he lost his job because he refused to work without heating being provided on a freezing cold day. No one was to be seen at Mercy except a few workmen in the farmyard, so, after waiting on the chance of seeing Mimi, Adam began to go slowly home. The indentures of the old members expiring by degrees, they changed their name, it seems, though they still have 'prentices among them, as well as workmen. Another shows workmen constructing the track and a third depicts the new carriages and the jockey cars, all proudly displaying the Great Orme Tramways livery. Five hundred workmen were employed to make two sails to my boat, according to my directions, by quilting thirteen folds of their strongest linen together. Find more words! 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