Example sentences of "[conj] people [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly , some of you will be , but there must be one or two people who are actually dreading Christmas er bearing in mind that they 've had to ask somebody whom they do n't really want in their house , or perhaps that person or people have asked themselves , and it 's very difficult to know how to refuse is n't it really ? |
| 2 | So , lesson one is that where people have found gold in the past , that is where you will find gold in the future ! |
| 3 | However , once peoples had chosen not to exercise their right to secede , they should join a fully centralized State . |
| 4 | This means , says Jose , that people become tied to the drug culture , not only through fear but also through gratitude . |
| 5 | Time and again it appeared that people had given up secure employment to farm full-time . |
| 6 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 7 | I mean we had an example from the miner 's strike but that ha was happening far away in a sense and it was just something that you could support or yo you did n't support or you put a tin of beans in the box in Quix and that was what you did you know sort of And then actually faced with having to accept food from that people had given you in a way , it 's a very quite a difficult concept . |
| 8 | Only last week my right hon. Friend said that people had sought asylum from Canada . |
| 9 | The main source of knowledge that there had been a quarrel was the reminders that people had made a peace ; and as the peace was between groups , it suggested that the quarrel was as well . |
| 10 | However , following allegations in the Congress by the Movement towards Socialism ( Movimiento al Socialismo — MAS ) of indiscriminate gunfire by the police and the Army in the slums , and of the execution of 19 people and other reports alleging that torture had been used in detention and that people had gone missing , a parliamentary commission claimed that over 600 were killed in Caracas alone and that 7,000 people were in detention ( compared with the official figure of 1,000 ) . |
| 11 | Mr Causeley at Jackson 's saying in his superior Southern style that people had written complaining that Machin had said ‘ bobbin-waggler ’ when he should have said ‘ throcket-shuttle ’ . |
| 12 | She said that people had commented on how she seemed to be back to her usual self , and that things seemed to be going very well with her brother and sister-in-law . |
| 13 | Even more important was the fact that people had devoted their lives to establishing the identity of such creatures ; that for someone the original distinction between Porcellio and Armadillidium had been a matter of life-consuming importance . |
| 14 | How did she know that people had died on the Bridge ? he wondered . |
| 15 | The government charged three executives of the Nairobi daily Standard with publishing false reports claiming that people had died attempting to resist the demolition team ; the charges were dropped in mid-July . |
| 16 | Interestingly , however , the SD went on to note that after unusually large audiences , prompted by heavy propaganda , had attended the film at the outset , the numbers rapidly dropped off , and there were comments that the film would bring nothing new , that people had had enough of the Jewish theme , and that many were nauseated by the depiction of ritual slaughter scenes — some fainting , and others leaving the cinema in disgust . |
| 17 | The normal principle — that people get paid for doing their jobs and not for not doing them — is reversed in the case of housewives . |
| 18 | Branson stood beside Simon Draper , visibly shaking , his face set in a grim mask , ‘ I ca n't tell you , ’ he began , ‘ how sad I am that people have felt the need to have a meeting , without Simon and I being present . |
| 19 | In contrast to Bourdieu , Baudrillard believed that people have become merely the vehicles for expressing the differences between objects . |
| 20 | The growth in the use of microcomputers in organizations means that people have become much less dependent on a central computer , which need only be used for large scale operations . |
| 21 | Cows lying down heralding rain and swallows flying high signalling good weather are two of the many indications that people have followed . |
| 22 | And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well . |
| 23 | Each week , my mail contains a number of theories that people have sent me . |
| 24 | I screamed in a low , unreadable voice and , on its return , the echo got grated and serrated through and over multi-farious jagged pots that people have built and called " chimneys " . |
| 25 | It is only that people have lost the secret . ’ |
| 26 | It really freaks me to think that people have travelled from all over Britain to this — even though it was supposed to be secret . |
| 27 | Erm , we have , as you would have seen , and has already been noted , erm , balances considerably higher than the seven million we 've previously set , at the , at the moment , and these will erm , be able to make provision if necessary , for police pay should happen to be higher than er , we are told than , than the one point five percent , which has something that people have raised with me , and erm , have said , that oh of course you lose grants if you do n't decide it now , but that is not in fact the case . |
| 28 | Well I think it 's either the experience that people have suffered or prejudice , but erm what really infuriates people I think is the fact that when you talk about gipsies you 're no longer talking about the romantic idea of a gipsy caravan , a red gipsy caravan with a horse and little children and dark-eyed girls , the erm conception is all wrong . |
| 29 | There are some lovely pieces as a rule — silks and satins that people have given them ; and some hideous bits that scream at the rest . |
| 30 | Why should the girls have to you know , lose their savings and money that money that people have given them as gifts just because , you know they do n't want to give out any money ! |