Example sentences of "people [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 2 | He was forward at seeking out young people of promise and giving them encouragement . |
| 3 | yeah , that 's good , he gets people out the audience and he goes out and about and sort of meets people with talent and gets them to do singing and that |
| 4 | Those are the only measures that will get people into work and keep them in work , which is the only proper policy to follow . |
| 5 | And at BA 's annual meeting last week , chairman Lord King said : ‘ Our business is to get people into planes and fly them . |
| 6 | His explanation for the coming of the prison at that time is that this was ‘ the moment when it became understood that it was more efficient and profitable in terms of the economy of power to place people under surveillance than to subject them to some exemplary penalty ’ ( Foucault , 1990 : 39 ) . |
| 7 | It is these laws which have been used to humiliate tired and defenceless visitors , to deport workers without even a hearing , to lock innocent people in prison and brand them criminals , and to provide employers with a work-force made powerless through legislation . |
| 8 | How to attract people to CPRW and get them and existing members more actively involved . |
| 9 | ‘ The criminal justice system has limited finances for taking people to court and locking them up , and there is a growing feeling among the public that neither the courts nor prison actually achieve anything . |
| 10 | Introducing young people to society and encouraging them to express themselves should not create conflict , as long as there is a co-operative understanding within the family or community . |
| 11 | They also argued that the normalization of such images by SM groups acclimatized people to brutality and made them less percipient about the advent of ‘ real fascism ’ . |
| 12 | This approach is not always the most effective in getting definite action ; though it is most effective at setting people on course and giving them purpose . |
| 13 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |