Example sentences of "people [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JACK Dee had tried for a while to make people laugh with a totally put-on chirpy delivery . |
| 2 | I suppose he did a great service by making people laugh with those outrageous characters rather than at them . ’ |
| 3 | Think how often , say in a meeting or discussion , you have a point of view that you want to persuade other people to agree with or adopt . |
| 4 | And again it helps if one can get a group of other people to agree with you . |
| 5 | I do n't expect most people to agree with these figures . |
| 6 | He felt that public relations was the engineering of human consent — getting people to agree to an idea , product , concept or what have you . |
| 7 | Depending , as Dufferin had so clearly perceived , for their ability to govern on the collaboration of a vast class of petty native fonctionnaires , and the political apathy of an even vaster class of ignorant peasants , they could in no way afford to see these people aroused to insubordination , even of an ostensibly peaceful kind . |
| 8 | People aroused by the possibilities of social power will seek it more consistently than those who are not aroused by power . |
| 9 | For as long as ordinary people remain on the Island , this pub will not change . |
| 10 | Opus declined to say how many people remain with the company or how many boxes it actually put in the field . |
| 11 | This was a vital necessity , otherwise the nation would remain backward , introverted and its people remain in a state of psychological subjugation . |
| 12 | How long do older people remain in hospital ? |
| 13 | In pressure-group politics the struggle for civil rights is controlled by the active few , while the mass of disabled people remain in their traditional passive relationship to others . |
| 14 | When they reach retirement age , most people qualify for the basic pension , which is normally uprated once a year to keep in line with price rises . |
| 15 | Changes in contribution conditions mean that higher paid people qualify for benefits faster than lower paid people and this especially affects women who make up the majority of low-paid workers . |
| 16 | Lots of people qualify for help with their Council Tax whether it 's exemptions , discounts or rebates . |
| 17 | Ergonomics can not be simply the adaptation of technology to suit invariant properties of ‘ man ’ , people change with technology . |
| 18 | Some people change for the better . |
| 19 | Hundreds of people sit at cafés on the pavement on either side of the road enjoying the sights . |
| 20 | This suggests that you should sit at arms length from your monitor and should n't site desks so that people sit near the back of monitors . |
| 21 | ‘ How many people sit in a theatre ? |
| 22 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 23 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 24 | Help people stay in their own homes through better availability of equipment and services . |
| 25 | These people account for 25.3 per cent of all spending on clothing and footwear , 21.6 per cent on household goods and 31.3 per cent on leisure . |
| 26 | Let me put this to Geoffrey Hoskin , Professor Hoskin we 've heard of a people ruled by Tsars and then by , is there going to be any thing but anarchy now ? |
| 27 | And the British Tourist Authority expects figures to rise as our recent warm summers , the effects of the recession and the threat of airport delays encourage more and more people to holiday at home rather than abroad . |
| 28 | This would include partners as well as people diagnosed as HIV positive . |
| 29 | The policy should detail approved cleansing and disinfectant products , methods for cleaning and give references to pertinent expert advisory documents , such as those on the care of people diagnosed with hepatitis B or HIV infection ( HMSO , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | The health authorities declared a fresh state of " red alert " on Dec. 28 when further cases of cholera were discovered in three northern provinces bordering Bolivia and Paraguay , although it was reported that none of the 44 people diagnosed in the space of five days had died [ for outbreak in early 1992 see p. 38761 ] . |