Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 2 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 3 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 4 | Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer . |
| 5 | We were amazed , however , at the number of people who had found out on the grapevine ! |
| 6 | He explained that the people who had got on to that ferry would get off in another world , and would never be seen in this one again . |
| 7 | There was a goodly stretch of garden between Hilda 's sitting-room and the road , but later that evening at least three people who had passed by on the other side of the wall commented on the row in the Spinners ' Arms . |
| 8 | Actors are very emotional people who get caught up in their own make-believe — I would n't trust an actor at all ! ’ |
| 9 | We finished our shift at 8 and he was going at 9 , but at 8 , instead of the usual people who came to take over from us , the managing director of the company and his next-door neighbour came in their golfing clothes to pick up whatever tip was being given and we were told to push off . |
| 10 | He 's seen old people who 've moved out of homes before and they 've enjoyed it . |
| 11 | SPORTSWEAR FOR PEOPLE WHO 'VE GROWN UP WITH SPORT . |
| 12 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 13 | What has been er what has been pleasing is that a n a number of the people who 've come in on the last two or three years or so er are younger people , people in their er late teens or twenties . |
| 14 | I think about the year that 's gone past , perhaps , people who 've passed out of my life , and think of it as a new beginning , and I wish as Scots that we would hold on to it and perpetuate that tradition and get away from gathering around the T V in Hogmanay . |
| 15 | These young people who have grown up under Israeli occupation take a much more radical approach than the PLO leadership . |
| 16 | The demand for good songs occurs when people who have grown up with pop are forced to accommodate their love of pop within their new sense of themselves as responsible adults . |
| 17 | People who have grown up with the sport when the pressures were not too great perhaps do not always think of others . |
| 18 | No I especially hope it will be read by sceptics , by people who have grown up with a kind of psychologically inspired dismissal of religion , people who 've become so sophisticated , so busy they have no time for it , people who are so bemused by technology , by the greatness of human achievement , the computers , the moon rockets , the medical advances , that in their worship of human talent they forget that there 's a point where human power ends and the power of God begins . |
| 19 | The houses will be for people who have to move out of Bentham Drive to make way for a new rail link . |
| 20 | People who have gone on to higher education are less likely than others to have used HP or credit from fuel boards . |
| 21 | The environment is of no concern to people who have to scrounge around for plant waste by the roadside for their own stoves . |
| 22 | The fact is that the people who have lost out from the erosion of children 's allowances have also lost in other ways . |
| 23 | They also believe that , like Zacchaeus , many people who have come back to God desire to make amends for their past . |
| 24 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
| 25 | Finally , an issue we became aware of — in England at least-because of the " dowry " system of funding was that a two tier system may be set up which benefits those people who have come out of hospital and ignores the others . |
| 26 | In practice , if not in spirit , there is a complete divorce between the ground floor , full of people who have walked in off the street , and the upper floors , where research and development on both hardware and software for the Third World take place . |
| 27 | However , because of the low levels of provision of rural council houses and small owner-occupied bungalows , especially purpose-built accommodation for the elderly , people who want to move out of accommodation that is too large may have nowhere to go locally . |
| 28 | They 're not just for the beginner but also for people who want to brush up on their skills with or without an instructor . |
| 29 | If you talk to women in the sort of project where she 's working , I think you do get a very strong picture of people who have very little confidence in themselves and certainly think that education is not for them , and if you then look at projects like second chance for women , there 's a range of access projects , particularly for for people who want to get back into education when they think that they 've had precious little chance to get anything out of education when they were at school themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ We are interested in serious-minded people who want to get down to the ins and outs of driving a steam locomotive — filth , heat , sweat and all . ’ |