Example sentences of "[det] people do " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 2 | Q. Why do some people do everything the food experts tell them and still have high cholesterol levels ? |
| 3 | Some people do well in these but not so well in the squad ( and vice versa ) , presumably because of the different pressures each brings to bear . |
| 4 | Trouble is , Piper , some people do not appreciate good music , especially when they are dodging flying shrapnel . |
| 5 | Also , some people do deals on the net income . |
| 6 | I 've been chief executive and/or chairman for twenty-five years and the tendency is to think you 're indispensable and you have to stay on until you 're seventy-five , as some people do . |
| 7 | But some people do n't just try to change their other half 's appearance : they want to alter their characters , too . |
| 8 | Some people do n't stop when she asks them for money , but most people think for a bit and then dig in their pockets and give her summat . |
| 9 | Some people do n't . ’ |
| 10 | But , of course , some people do not take lawns seriously . |
| 11 | Some people do n't believe it . |
| 12 | Seen in this light , management is an activity which only some people engage in , or as something which some people do to other people — once they have been chartered/qualified to do so . |
| 13 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 14 | Some people do seriously believe that their records sound better if the labels are smeared with ‘ neutralising cream ’ and stored with the sleeve notes pointing in a particular direction to align the printing inks . |
| 15 | Some People do not like the puppy stage and go for an older dog or bitch . |
| 16 | Like teaching , some people do it naturally while others have to learn the skills in a more formalized way . |
| 17 | Some people do not suffer such a reaction when taking such prescribed tablets as penicillin but , for those who do , it can often be relieved by regular eating of natural yoghourt for the duration of the course of treatment . |
| 18 | But some people do n't like having the responsibility of doing their own thinking — they let the Church or television do it for them . |
| 19 | Some people do this to such an extent that although they never get angry , they are not always kind or tolerant , and can be cold , dogmatic people . |
| 20 | A focus group would be a most interesting way of beginning work on the previously noted research into why some people do and why some people do not go to the theatre , but the results of such discussion would be hypothesis-provoking only , not in any way hypothesis-testing . |
| 21 | A focus group would be a most interesting way of beginning work on the previously noted research into why some people do and why some people do not go to the theatre , but the results of such discussion would be hypothesis-provoking only , not in any way hypothesis-testing . |
| 22 | Some people do n't like others to get too close to them . |
| 23 | Some people do not feel ready for this , and need to find voluntary or part-time paid work to give themselves a feeling of worth and to supplement an inadequate pension . |
| 24 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |
| 25 | But it is not true , either , to maintain , as some people do , that there is little wrong with the subject content and everything wrong with its implementation . |
| 26 | It is like poetry : some people do not believe in its existence at all , others argue over whether certain arrangements of words are poetry or not : these zodiacs are as it were topographical poems , a poetic geography akin to legendary history , Like legends , with which they often link up , these poems in the landscape give an identity to a place , a personality which may especially be lacking in the urban wasteland of an area like the suburbs of London , so that the place is no longer just somewhere in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere . |
| 27 | Some people do not enjoy club activities but , many if they make the effort , find that they rather enjoy being involved with something and with other people . |
| 28 | Not everyone has the same tastes , remember — some people do n't like reading long text messages like those in Nythyhel , but perhaps it 's time for another game with a strong storyline . |
| 29 | Of course some people do n't go for recording the guitar that way because they think you lose the dynamics . |
| 30 | I never was one to collect a bunch of guitars like some people do . |