Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He becomes caught up the in the magic of books until one day , when reading a poetry book at home , he suddenly no longer cares if people know his secret . |
| 2 | There 's none of the daily rancour which develops when people live bovinely together . |
| 3 | The trouble starts when people get carried away . |
| 4 | So you see the trouble starts when people get HIV — but how do you get this virus ? |
| 5 | He says if people had listen to the voices who were calling for him to be locked up then he would n't have had this chance to show an improvement . |
| 6 | He says if people think he 's not telling the truth they must tell him to his face . |
| 7 | Andrew says if people find it unbelievable that a nurse could ever kill then they should relise that the situation in Bosnia is unbleievable . |
| 8 | The bulk of this book so far has been concerned with looking at what happens when people lose something . |
| 9 | To see what happens when people pretend that a currency is worth what it is not we have only to consider Germany 's monetary union . |
| 10 | Something , something happens when people send a different program through and they do n't reset it |
| 11 | What is the process and what happens when people give and exchange messages ? |
| 12 | ‘ Real collaboration only happens when people working on the same scale want to share the results of their work or are willing to put money in a pool for an expensive project ’ said another official . |
| 13 | That 's what happens when people play Hendrix songs : they just pale . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a gift from out there , ’ he explained , ‘ something that happens when people need it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And what happens when people start asking about you , wondering why we are n't together ? ’ |
| 16 | What happens when people move from research to industry and commerce ? |
| 17 | In behavioural terms this usually occurs when people participating in the meeting get locked into an information loop . |
| 18 | The models also describe the exact form of the deterioration in decision making which occurs when people have to choose among several alternatives instead of just two , in terms of limits on their memory and thinking . |
| 19 | As community organizers know , change best occurs when people choose short-term winnable goals which build their belief they can make a difference and which can alter the balance of power , ( i.e. after this action , the youth group becomes a recognized force in the community ) . |
| 20 | The ‘ unemployment trap ’ occurs when people find they are no better off when the breadwinner is in employment than when out of employment . |
| 21 | ‘ She thinks if people miss a meal , they 'll die too soon , but she wo n't eat potatoes and dumplings and Belgian things . |
| 22 | A convention exists when people follow certain rules or maxims for reasons that essentially include their expectation that others will follow the same rules or maxims , and they will follow rules for that reason when they believe that on balance having some settled rule is more important than having any particular rule . |
| 23 | They may write is for his , or Inglish for English , because that 's the way it sounds when people say it . |
| 24 | Communication also suffers when people make false assumptions about shared schemata , and it is then that they cease to ‘ be clear ’ . |
| 25 | If it is an important consideration of the price tells whether people buy it fairly or not , but you know if the price is very high then . |
| 26 | These figures are only estimates because people have different metabolic rates . |
| 27 | What determines whether people feel they are asleep or awake ? |
| 28 | What determines whether people see a glass as half-full or half-empty is mood rather than fact , and change in mood often defies quantification . |
| 29 | ‘ But it 's more likely to be the little fat chap who laughs when people make love . ’ |
| 30 | The trouble comes when people get too enthusiastic and do n't warm up or train enough . |