Example sentences of "[vb past] people [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin . |
| 2 | You 'd people think it 's easy let them have a go at it . |
| 3 | We went along to a ballooning club and pestered people to let us have a free flight . |
| 4 | ‘ The Government allowed people to believe it was always going to be good . |
| 5 | Wherever we walked people asked us to treat inflamed eyes , limbs swollen by filariasis , and all manner of festering sores . |
| 6 | A video showing the alleged IRA safe house at 17 Campbell Road , asked people viewing it to try to remember whether they had seen , inadvertedly had drinks with , or queued at shops with members of the IRA unit . |
| 7 | But Pete , I may be a bit of a shit mysel' and not exactly a paragon of virtues , and mebbee I 'm not what I made people think I was , but that does n't mean that it is n't true — ; the greed of the bourgeoisie , the oppression , the need to show it up for what it is . |
| 8 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 9 | However , acknowledging the right did not mean that the party favoured people using it . |
| 10 | In some ways , though , Nick — as he insisted people call him — lived in the shadow of his father Alec , a renowned pacifist who had set up a Chair of Peace Studies at Bradford University on the sensible grounds that everywhere else seemed to study war . |
| 11 | At one time in the recent past , willow-pattern plates and dishes were very popular , but did people buy them for the sad story of the elopement they depicted , or only because they were fashionable at the time ? |
| 12 | Did people think it was strange you working and helping a butcher ? |
| 13 | Did people expect it to be liquified and work on it until it happened , or was it just an accidental discovery ? |
| 14 | ‘ Did people believe her ? ’ |
| 15 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 16 | Stressing the need for the rich cadences and rhythms of the Book of Common Prayer , he said people loved them because they could remember them in times of crisis . |
| 17 | And I think somebody said people read them out . |
| 18 | Now when he and Anne had people to stay they ran around after their guests making sure they were comfortable . |
| 19 | Yeah I think that what Clinton did was to play on that to get elected and you know he wanted people to see him as that , but |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was important not to look as though you wanted people to think you were holy . |
| 23 | I wanted people to think I 'd gone to Summertown and I could prove it if necessary . |
| 24 | Since he wanted people to pay him in cash , and to stimulate the transactions that enabled them to do so , it was in his interests to restore confidence in the currency . |
| 25 | Now both rescued people believe he saved their lives . |