Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] people [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy Graham like all such evangelists called for people from the congregation to make an immediate decision and to come out from the crowd ; and Ramsey wrote that the call for an immediate decision had danger because the mind could be stifled in the process and this could bring a later revenge in scepticism and indifference . |
| 2 | Objects and buildings made by people in the past offer a direct link with the past . |
| 3 | Even his mother , Grandma Williams — who was ending her days boasting to people in the pub about her famous grandson , telling distant relatives who suddenly appeared out of the woodwork about him and regaling the family with stories about her strange neighbours — became scared of him . |
| 4 | The account ends with a vivid picture of military exercises , first involving feigned flights performed by two equal contingents drawn from peoples of the various regna — Saxons , Gascons , Austrasians and Bretons , then the " putting to flight " of all these by the two kings and their followings ( omnis iuventus ) on horseback , the whole thing characterised by " so many noble participants , such superb control " . |
| 5 | Nurses , social workers , and remedial therapists care about people in the same way as doctors , lawyers , and architects but in addition they care for people ; a task which may involve the performance of unpleasant work connected with bodily functioning . |
| 6 | Awful things happened to people on the tube . |
| 7 | Standards set by people in the public eye were only blamed by 39 per cent . |
| 8 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 9 | The course of a cholera epidemic , for instance , can be reported and its causes investigated by means of excerpts from documents written by people at the time . |