Example sentences of "[verb] some people who " in BNC.

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1 She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice .
2 A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics .
3 ‘ I worked in the country for a while and met some people who were trying to recreate Woodstock . ’
4 And so on the whole the unions in Britain have seen this as a way of catching some people who otherwise would fall through the net entirely .
5 They 've made it fairly clear to me that I 'll never be a high-flier , but every company needs some people who are n't high-fliers , and that 's all right by me .
6 " It 's only — well , I thought I 'd ask you — how she looked when — I mean they say some people who die like that , they look sort of , their faces … "
7 We found some people who are just mad about hats and discovered why they like their favourite headgear .
8 At a conference in San Francisco not so long ago , I encountered some people who want to deal with all these problems by contraception .
9 does n't matter if I 'm not going to name any names but I mean I 've seen some people who it 's been suggested might stand two hoots of a flick of a finger whether someone of the sort that I 've seen mentioned , stood or not .
10 Listen I 've got , Vernon I I 've got some people who have had the side effects .
11 And a lot of them have emotional problems ; I mean one of the girls I talked to here who 's dealing with calls says it 's difficult , you get some people who get very angry with you because you do n't have news for them .
12 The independent teams and Her Majesty 's inspectorate will contain some people who are not members of the teaching profession .
13 You do n't need to hoard them for years , I know some people who hoard receipts for years .
14 Now that 's fine , but I know some people who are in the city centre every , on Saturday , feel very guilty if they 're not constantly giving , and I do think we want to get that balance .
15 I suppose some people who are in receipt of social benefits might say their benefits are very , very small , come nowhere near covering the true cost to them and their families are having to foot the bill for a lot of what 's done , and sometimes , when maybe their allowances are cut by a little bit , they might think ‘ erm well perhaps if the Oxfordshire County Councillors had cut a little bit of their attendance allowances maybe I could have little bit more ’ .
16 Every increase in the price expected will , as a rule , induce some people who would not otherwise have produced anything , to produce a-little ; and those , who have produced something for the lower price , will produce more for the higher price .
17 This year , there has been another problem affecting some people who applied through UCCA or PCAS ; it seems there was a fault with the new UCCA equipment which is used to process all applications through the central systems .
18 When I arrived at the school I saw some people who I recognised from the induction days .
19 Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first .
20 That 's erm would you say that obviously it 's a b it 's very difficult to actually ask cos it to some extent you 'd be generalizing anyway , would you say that people in the flats , do stick together or or do you get some people who isolated and just k just do n't have any flats ?
21 He said some people who found it difficult to pay for relatives ' funerals — due to redundancy or mortgage payments were offered payment by monthly instalments while others who would not or could not pay were pursued to the small claims court .
22 In October of this year I would like to hold another sale to raise £1,000 for Breast Cancer Research and would like to ask you readers if they would help me once again by donating one item no matter how small , or if they have some spare yarn but not time to knit it up and would like to donate the yarn I have some people who would help me to knit it .
23 You have some people who are part-mathematicians , part-educationists for example
24 Behaviour therapy , Gestalt therapy , Art Therapy , Music Therapy , Transactional Analysis , Psychotherapy , Psychosynthesis , Psycho Drama and any number of other techniques may help some people who have problems with the process of moving rationally from thoughts to feelings and on to actions , even though these techniques have nothing to offer to the specific recovery process from addictive disease itself .
25 erm yes , erm it 's very sad that there are people , and something should be done about it , but if you were to have a society , a perfect society , where there was no need for people to sleep out rough , or to sleep rough , you would still find some people who would sleep rough .
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