Example sentences of "people [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know some people got them , but I ai n't never seen one before . |
| 2 | Their triple-engined ski boat had blocked the exit to the road and when people asked them to move it the BMW people started arguing . |
| 3 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 4 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 5 | We 've , the protest succeeded in focusing a spotlight on this northern test site where the Soviets hope to continue nuclear testing after their own people stopped them in Khazakstan They 're rattled and they 're angry with us , and now they 're punishing us by preventing us from having direct communication with our friends and finding out that they 're safe and well . |
| 6 | In terms of professed influence on their voting decisions , people rated them far more important even than unemployment . |
| 7 | Erm no I I honestly do n't think that er that the the problem is as big as as big as you you say it is and I I think the the structures are there to deal with that and if if people had you know if people used them then they would they would work and they from time to time that they are used and you know it it is not impossible to get rid of rid of a teacher in in the way you are suggesting . |
| 8 | The value of such exposure is difficult to measure but , when three of the company 's craft demonstrators recently returned from tours of Japan , they all reported that an amazing number of people approached them to say they had seen Wedgwood featured on the Did You Really Know It ? programme during October . |
| 9 | As we have seen , Queen Elizabeth 's Roger Ascham , in many ways broadminded and tolerant , thought the stories immoral and mischievous ; and other high-minded people pronounced them wanton and unworthy of reading . |
| 10 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 11 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 12 | The new industrial centres were , in fact , quite small at first , and as they were mainly out of the way in unfashionable parts of the country , many people ignored them completely ; one or two distinguished men even had the impression that the population was declining . |
| 13 | When the hospital people came they shouted at us too , and called us dogs . " |
| 14 | Funny actually they could n't , when the rescue people came they could n't see where the damage was because of the dust . |
| 15 | People believed they knew things that could never be shared ; mysteries too deep and powerful for outsiders to understand . |
| 16 | Once a retreat had been forced from one dump site , people believed they could do it again , and did . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most important aspect of attempts to manage the ‘ mixed economy ’ during the golden years was that people believed they could work . |
| 18 | At the time that Salam and Weinberg proposed their theory , few people believed them , and particle accelerators were not powerful enough to reach the energies of 100 GeV required to produce real W , w , or Q particles . |
| 19 | But several people admired them here . |
| 20 | Will somebody tell me : if the Chicago-based Harmony company mass-produced ten million guitars since 1945 ( as they claim ) , were the guitars so bad that people threw them in the bin like you did with my last letter and lovely photograph ? |
| 21 | Free People claimed they had been ‘ exploding the myth of the happy family ’ . |
| 22 | On average these people claimed they spent about six hours a week on such work , and this was equivalent to about 400,000 full-time workers . |
| 23 | With a sigh she knew that in the morning when the people returned they would bring with them the rivalries and ill-feeling that had spoiled everything . |
| 24 | When the multinational firms saw that they were international , the minds of the people followed them . ’ |
| 25 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 26 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 27 | People loved them . |
| 28 | When Sainsbury 's introduced them into their supermarkets two years ago , people hit them hard . |
| 29 | With iron gords , or hoops as the rich people called them , and with clashes and tensions no less thrilling and dangerous than the real thing , we competitively raced until we dropped . |
| 30 | All the dairy people watched them leave , and Clare kissed the dairymaids goodbye . |