Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [adv] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picasso worked mostly from memory , but when he used models for his figure pieces they were usually people he knew well , his friends and mistresses . |
| 2 | Erm , er so of course there was always people coming to the house connected with the Co-op educational side , you know and erm I used to sort of you kn understand it all , mother was the treasurer and sometimes the secretary would come down to see her . |
| 3 | Around each stall there were usually people talking , and the place which attracted the most conversationalists , after , perhaps , the pavement restaurants , was the donkey-vous . |
| 4 | Even in the worst years of the Depression there were still people wealthy enough to give their cast-offs to the poor , and they did n't come much poorer than a Salvation Army officer 's family . |
| 5 | In fact it was largely people working outside the framework of experimental psychology who kept alive research into the physical bases of mental processes . |