Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hold on , are you saying that , if I wanted to , I could make people do things , obey me and stuff ? ’ |
| 2 | I could give people the last part , be careful in the second one . |
| 3 | You 'd bloody like to go on holiday to America and they come back with an American accent I could shoot people who do that . |
| 4 | I retreated into the kitchen and I could hear people asking Nell what time they could have breakfast . |
| 5 | ‘ I could hear people screaming on board and there were people lying on the grass by the side of the runway . |
| 6 | I could hear people groaning and calling for help . ’ |
| 7 | There was always a long silence and I could see people thinking , ‘ Oh my God , this guy has lost it , big time . ' ’ |
| 8 | Here and there in the grounds I could see people dotted about . |
| 9 | It was a moving song , and I could see people with tears in their eyes , but I kept wondering why I could n't feel anything . |
| 10 | Liz Spalding looked anything but the fighter that she was ; she could get people off their guard , get their defences down , just by looking at them . |
| 11 | Was she insane , that she imagined she could force people to bend to her will in this arbitrary fashion ? |
| 12 | The vines spread away on both sides of her , and she could see people working among them , moving slowly along the ranks of greenery . |
| 13 | She carried her haul up the hill to the cottage where she found the kitchen empty once again , although she could hear people talking in the living room . |
| 14 | Deep down in those subconscious depths was the suggestion that you could make people believe anything you wanted them to believe , if only you knew how to pronounce the magic formula that brought the genie from the bottle . |
| 15 | Or you could ask people to give their opinions of a subject on which they have strong views . |
| 16 | At that time you could you could trust people . |
| 17 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 18 | And a legitimate hook because people are concerned about food and eating and so forth , and that , that would have been a hook you could grab people with , and most people would have thought ‘ That would be something I want to read about . ’ |
| 19 | There are always ways that we could make people more effective or help people to got the wrong flip , but , but to grow into other jobs . |
| 20 | Er , I must n't be guilty of commercials but in the last council meeting of the night , again the subject came up of how we could welcome people coming to mass and this is nothing to do with a request council at all and er we ended up , and I think it 's fair to say what we decided er here , that people would individually they did n't know approach them . |
| 21 | ‘ We thought we could pay people off , ’ says a businessman , ‘ and look who we paid most : the Iraqis , the Yemenis , the Jordanians , the Palestinians . ’ |
| 22 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 23 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 24 | So I mean , we could , we could recruit people in to do it , but the problem there is they 've got to be free at the times when this course runs . |
| 25 | We could see people You know , why that would be I do n't know and I thought possibly |
| 26 | We could mend people 's stockings , for one thing … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We could find people who wanted £3m worth of business over a few years , but failed to get any quick profit deals . |
| 28 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 29 | A new round of fare increases on British Rail have come into force , and commuters are warning they could force people off trains and into their cars . |
| 30 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |