Example sentences of "[prep] people [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm fooling a lot of people 'cos I have absolutely no idea what the f— I 'm saying , to you or anyone else . |
| 2 | But the number of people that I 've had in erm both customers and visitors like yourselves , that have been so impressed by the standards of housekeeping and cleanliness and tidiness , for an engineering facility . |
| 3 | And a lot of people that I 've spoken to who 've had problems have turned to that alternative because they could see no other . |
| 4 | off , and there 's not a lot of people that I know of |
| 5 | The number of people that I hear saying things such as I do n't remember stepping over people in the street five years ago and it 's true , in this city I do n't actually remember doing that , not with the frequency with which it happens today and your government and your party has no record to shout about , absolutely none . |
| 6 | But generally , I do n't think there 's any group of people that I have less respect for . |
| 7 | There were a number of people that I did n't hear from . |
| 8 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 9 | I like different kinds of people but I try very hard to be ‘ nice ’ to everybody . |
| 10 | Ash and I levered our way through the press of people while I undid my jacket and struggled to extricate my half-bottle of whisky from a side pocket . |
| 11 | And there 's one here with a a group of people and I found that a stone wall makes an ideal thing to trick photography with . |
| 12 | Conditions such as those were quite common to many thousands of people and I think it was those conditions which helped to formulate and develop my political thinking . |
| 13 | ‘ We certainly surprised a lot of people and I think we may even have surprised ourselves by the progress we had made in a relatively short time . ’ |
| 14 | I really like the group I joined at Morley College in London — it contained a mixture of people and I liked getting to know them . |
| 15 | I do n't want to sound as if I have n't got sympathy with people 'cause I know it 's bloody hard , but I know a lot of blacks who use it [ blackness ] as an excuse and we 've got to be careful that we do n't use it like that . |
| 16 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 17 | Or through people that I knew before . |
| 18 | so that 'll cover for people that I do n't know . |
| 19 | I think the problem about having it as a a a perhaps a wine bar or something is that is that it 's very difficult to get to and I think it do n't does create problems for people but I think there is a solution there we just need to actually target the right use for it . |
| 20 | I try to make excuses for people and I try to live as a Christian — but I still ca n't stop myself wishing that some day you 'll go through similar torments . |
| 21 | So , first of all , the method of dealing with things in such a changed manner has to be put over to people and I think the links , which were traditional , which no longer apply , have to be and it must be a link going out in directions like this . |
| 22 | back to people if I have a problem with it . |
| 23 | I 'm just slipping down the hill being bumped by people but I do n't hardly notice . |