Example sentences of "[det] people were [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one was hurt in the rush hour blast but a few people were taken to the Royal Free Hospital , Hampstead , suffering from shock . |
| 2 | Gluckman said that he had performed more than 200 post-mortems on black people who had died in detention , and he was convinced that 90 per cent of these people were killed by the police . |
| 3 | Thousands of Ulster citizens have taken the law into their own hands to save their country , many of these people were encouraged by the speeches of our ‘ leaders ’ ; many were frustrated that speeches were all they made . |
| 4 | According to Tolstoy in The Minister and the Massacres ( pp 103–9 ) , no sooner had the 20–30,000 Croats assembled at Bleiburg laid down their arms ( they also included many civilians ) than Tito 's partisans opened fire from the surrounding woods causing an immense massacre ( " the slaughter was terrible … the whole field was strewn with bodies … how many people were massacred in the Bleiburg fields on 15 and 16 May is unknown " ) . |
| 5 | She was part of an evangelical crusade that claimed many people were trapped in the occult . |
| 6 | Following the question by the right hon. Member for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) , is there not essentially a double standard when one delegation can bring whomsoever it likes to the talks , whether those people were born in the Soviet Union or the United States , and another delegation is told whom it can and whom it can not bring ? |
| 7 | Northern Constabulary has confirmed that two visits have been made to the Glen Moriston site , during which several people were charged under the 1865 Criminal Trespass ( Scotland ) act . |
| 8 | Several people were hurt in the melee , Mr Roshka said . |