Example sentences of "people [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | Four million people lived in Rome . |
| 32 | The court heard how between 100 and 200 people lived in each of the 12-storey flats . |
| 33 | Last night Mr Portillo said the phrase ‘ full compensation ’ was meaningless because people lived in different homes in different circumstances and that there were too many variable factors that made it impossible to give a specific figure at present . |
| 34 | people relating stories about how they you know , people lived in these la ca they lived in slums really they , they quoted Lancashire . |
| 35 | People lived in slums . |
| 36 | The pattern today includes most of the features which people created in the past . |
| 37 | But again , see again cos we 're not following the actual script , the picking up and pinpointing people mentioned in earlier conversations , which you would 've done if you 'd 've gone back to the planning the future . |
| 38 | PEOPLE fled in terror yesterday as a crashed petrol tanker exploded in a fireball , sending 7,000 gallons of blazing fuel roaring up the street . |
| 39 | Unfortunately , in the year 1880 , what came to be viewed as the greatest injustice ever to be perpetrated against deaf people occurred in September when the highly-misleading International Congress of Teachers of Deaf-Mutes was convened in Milan , Italy . |
| 40 | In those days arose Rodrigo of Bivar , who was a youth strong in arms and of good customs ; and the people rejoiced in him , for he bestirred himself to protect the land from the Moors . |
| 41 | Pie day had dawned bright and clear but tons of straw and cinders had to be hastily brought in as vehicles and people sank in the mud caused by the torrential rain of the past few days . |
| 42 | Mohamed Abbad is one of 31 people tried in May 1984 in Marrakech following demonstrations in January 1984 against price rises and the imposition of an examination fee for the baccalaureate examination . |
| 43 | Another seven people murdered in Northern Ireland , a dreadful end to a dreadful week , and yet on Friday there had been at least a little optimism in the air , John Major and Albert Reynolds getting together in Brussels for what were billed as substantive talks , where does all that go now ? |
| 44 | People came in the summer to walk and to sail and , if development plans succeeded and the roads could be kept clear , they 'd soon be coming in the winter to ski . |
| 45 | People came in this morning about nine o'clock wanting |
| 46 | It might have been that a long time ago , when people believed in prayer . |
| 47 | More than two thirds of people surveyed in Gloucestershire said they were dissatisfied that the offender involved had been cautioned . |
| 48 | Rejecting pluralist and other writings as a conscious decision by academies to defend the privileges which this new system of power gave to them through military and industrial contracts , Mills argued that the power elite could be defined in terms of the institutional positions which people commanded in society . |
| 49 | After the treatment her hair shone like burnished copper from scalp to tip , such a beautiful shade of red that people turned in the street to stare as she passed by . |
| 50 | People arrived in couples , but the men were the first to leave . |
| 51 | An estimated 1,000,000 people arrived in Shenzhen from all over China on Aug. 9-11 seeking to purchase the application forms for a forthcoming share offer on the Shenzhen stock exchange . |
| 52 | Other such incidents were reported on Feb. 29 at Pecinje in central Albania , where a youth and a policeman died , on Feb. 25 in Pogradec ( south-east of Tirana ) , where two people suffocated in a looting crowd which also attacked shops and a textile factory , and in early March at Louchnje . |
| 53 | A committee comprising deaf and hearing people began in 1970 with a Swedish word list to establish which words had sign translations . |
| 54 | The great endeavour which Peter Scott and a small group of inspired people began in 1961 may be said to have only just started to have the worldwide impact which will help mankind to learn once again to develop in full harmony with the natural world , but it is already indelibly clear that Peter 's influence and determination has been crucial in creating a force that will not be denied its place of importance on a planet which , in the foreseeable future , may be required to support a human population of double its present size . |
| 55 | Of course I was not saying I see people elbowed in the face 200 times a week . |
| 56 | How many people worked in the kitchen ? |
| 57 | and the people worked in the big hotels |
| 58 | Er at one time there was just over about a thousand people employed in Brothers . |
| 59 | Which country has the largest number of people employed in manufacturing ? |
| 60 | He has cut public transport funding and cut in the number of people employed in the public transport service . |