Example sentences of "[verb] people [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the former are slower ; or perhaps they are doing it because they want people to say they are working hard . |
| 2 | Mr Chettle , working from the Middlesbrough office of Cleveland Arts , speaks excitedly of projects being undertaken in the area , saying : ‘ We want people to know they are happening . ’ |
| 3 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
| 4 | Do n't know people do they ? |
| 5 | What these examples illustrate is an attempt by black sportsmen to convey an impression of themselves as cool : they like people to believe they are always relaxed and unflustered . |
| 6 | So a conductor 's duty were n't very very nice then , probably three piece duties , which were spread duties but you know people thought they were bringing in a wonderful thing to be one man operated but it was before the war that we had one man operated buses . |
| 7 | I 've got a Seymour Duncan Convertible amp as well , and I know people say they 've had trouble with reliability , but I 've never travelled with mine so I would n't know ! |
| 8 | Parents are now having second thoughts : ‘ I 've heard people saying they would n't have chosen to put their children in school , but their friends were going for it and they were afraid they would miss out , ’ she said . |
| 9 | What about Port Vale I 've heard people say they used to be a hard team to play . |
| 10 | What arrogance is it that drives people to believe they can have power over them ? |
| 11 | Drugs often make people feel they 're coping , when they 're really not coping at all . |
| 12 | What if we took a radically different stance and presented a positive , invigorating reason to transcend greed — make people feel they are ‘ enough ’ without it ? ’ says Clancy . |
| 13 | It is dangerous therefore to allow people to think they have routine jobs . |
| 14 | ‘ I keep hearing people say they do n't want to see Ovett running 3:58 because they want to remember him running 3:48 . |
| 15 | We want to get people to forget they are using an artificial leg , then everyone else will forget . ’ |
| 16 | Well what what do you mean what do people think they 're not out there they 've all gone flipping Sunday shopping . |
| 17 | Now when he and Anne had people to stay they ran around after their guests making sure they were comfortable . |
| 18 | It makes people think they 're invincible , they can put a seatbelt on and they 'll be all right . |
| 19 | The whole family liked to be heard , as if they wanted people to know they were alive in a world where young and old alike were here one day and gone the next . |
| 20 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |