Example sentences of "people [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Co-ordinator Ann Graham said : ‘ It is a shame when young people look forward to a ride on the horses , often for weeks , to find it rained-off . |
| 32 | If people look forward to a meeting because of the atmosphere which you help create it will add to your personal influence . |
| 33 | ‘ Throughout the year people stand outside on the street and eat it . |
| 34 | Of these , semantically and ideologically the leaf-people and the original people stand closest to the Chewong , while Tanko and keoi stand closest to the outsiders . |
| 35 | Even Fouché does n't order people killed just for the hell of it . ’ |
| 36 | You 're obviously sad to lose him but really , he 's one of these people riding all round the country who 's suffered because of the forty point limit . |
| 37 | In 1979 ( Figure 5.1 ) , the median net income of households which included elderly people declined sharply with the age of the oldest member , from £43 per week for the 65–69 age-group to £32 for the 80-years-and-older group . |
| 38 | The scene was frantic : a sea of members but precious few stage-divers ( these guys like to keep their distance ) , simply ridiculous volume levels that make sure you only concentrated on the music , lovely melodies , and people getting away from the pressures of daily life in a northern town . |
| 39 | The Indian civil service was in many ways like a hospital , its people bound together by the struggle to survive in a hostile environment . |
| 40 | There were people dancing right at the back of the hall . |
| 41 | In Brisbane where 300,000 people packed together in the city centre , hysteria ran as high as the baking 95 degree temperature . |
| 42 | I remember a day in late spring when people looked anxiously towards the sky for signs of warmth . |
| 43 | The tiny room at the back of the shop was fitted with a trestle table and two forms and country people went there for a meal on market days . |
| 44 | As more and more people drifted away from the land and sought work in large urban areas , during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , so Alford found itself left behind — a hollow yet tranquilly pulsating image of its former glory . |
| 45 | The tour provided the first opportunity for many years for people to call openly for the restoration of human rights , legalization of political parties and the scrapping of the Tinkhundla ( chieftancy ) system [ see p. 38048 ] . |
| 46 | Five thousand people gathered early in the morning , but the trains were not sufficient to accommodate them . |
| 47 | ‘ Stockton North people go more for the Conservatism of Macleod and Macmillan , ’ he said . |
| 48 | There was always a marked difference in impact between those programmes where people spoke freely in an impromptu , unscripted way and those where the same subject was dealt with in scripted form . |
| 49 | Occasionally people from more than one lineage on each side had made peace , and people spoke then of a peace between some higher order entity than a small lineage : Ujdaid and Talib , Awlad Amira and Mannaia . |
| 50 | Hence for example , studies of youth employment and unemployment often defined ‘ work ’ as something which people did only outside the home , thus excluding housework from serious study . |
| 51 | Local authorities have warned people to stay away from the river and parts of the Shasta Lake as a health precaution . |
| 52 | The organisation is to give out 100,000 anti-informer leaflets in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland warning people to stay away from the RUC stating such a move , ‘ could save a life , including your own ’ . |
| 53 | Its people move regularly between the countryside and the cities . |
| 54 | There were people standing all along the back , and down the sides . |
| 55 | Professional people do so on a consultancy basis , skilled manual workers as and when they can . |
| 56 | An ozone depletion over the Arctic could be much more serious , as many more people live closer to the north pole than they do to the south pole ; for example North America , Russia and Europe . |
| 57 | A further 44 per cent of all elderly people live only with a spouse and , as we saw in the last chapter , only about 14 per cent are living with others- ‘ non-spouses ’ . |
| 58 | Of course , not all young people leave home to a whirl of social activity . |
| 59 | More than one in four people leave home in the morning without eating breakfast and many also skip lunch . |
| 60 | But they 're making dead sure people think seriously about the idea . |