Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keynesian economics , they say , is the comparative static equilibrium approach to macroeconomics which has developed from other people 's interpretations of the General Theory . |
| 2 | ‘ For this book , an awful lot has come from live people , her family , her friends . |
| 3 | But as they analyse what he has said to different people , they begin to see that the question is not really pertinent . |
| 4 | Next to these are hung canvases — uncoloured — printed with texts about colour taken from interviews Calle has done with blind people . |
| 5 | She has appealed to local people to give as many details as possible about the legends , history and myths which have grown up around the village over the years . |
| 6 | In his anguished soliloquy on awaking from what he thinks has only been a dream , we see that the hypocrite has lost for ever the advantage he has had over other people . |
| 7 | ‘ Publicity has led to young people to believe that drug taking is about heroin and crack and has failed to cover the dangers of other less notorious drugs , ’ said Mr McMullin . |
| 8 | A loss had been turned to a profit and teamwork has led to empowered people with a commitment to the business . |
| 9 | Bill Mumford says that everybody goes on these trips comes back changed in some way … its a maturiing thing … and maybe it 's a lesson for all of us we should feel inspired by disabled people trying something remarkable |
| 10 | I mean it 's okay like if you 're getting weighed with other people , and yes , it 's quite nice and you 've got the encouragement and everything , but when all 's said and done , dieting dieting is all down to willpower . |
| 11 | All this would have fostered among lay people awareness of a spiritual dimension to life . |
| 12 | Within this overall pattern , too , there are wide variations in the amount of viewing done by different people , and in the proportion of ITV viewing in the total . |
| 13 | Small reliable local firms whose work you may have seen in other people 's homes are of course worth considering . |
| 14 | Having worked with young people at school , on the streets and in prison one has been consistently struck by their thirst for clear information on and about the Church and her teachings . |
| 15 | The extent to which a person feels threatened by other people having information about him or her varies from one person to another . |
| 16 | I think there 's I think there 's quite a few and I think this is what swayed it , the fact that they have had erm , I know of at least ten say ten , there 's one , two , three on the other side of the road which is good because Bob which is another one , so that 's four , there 's which is the other side of the shop , is five , there 's us , six , Jean seven , the eight , erm the guy the other side of the which is nine , there is Ginny over the and the erm old persons ' home , that 's ten that I know of for certain about , er and then I 've heard of other people were gon na be writing in , now whether they actually did or not I do n't know |
| 17 | We were the most powerful country in the world and the overwhelming fact was that astonishing amounts of money had come into ordinary people 's homes . |
| 18 | The work I 've done for other people , getting things together , making things happen , sheltering the homeless , getting them fed — and as often as not , paying for it . |
| 19 | Comprehensivization , he muttered to himself , seemed to have had much the same effect on the middle-middle class in England as racial integration in schools had had on similar people in the States . |
| 20 | We 've talked about the man in the cemetery , the graveyard , and we 've talked about other people coming into the drop in centre and their sense of anger , but what about your sense of anger ? |
| 21 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 22 | The recording started with the news-reader announcing that Harriet Shakespeare had replied to Free People 's demands . |
| 23 | Sam had worked with disabled people to gain his award , and helped youngsters in the Combined Cadet Force . |
| 24 | In the dawn , before the host came home , he would surely be presented at last with one window into his father 's spirit , and add to the many aspects of Master Harry he had borrowed from other people one at least which was his own . |
| 25 | People who had lived in old people 's homes were less likely than others who died to have gone into a hospital or hospice during the last year of their lives or to die in one . |
| 26 | From leaving school at twelve years of age until her marriage to Hywell Gates at the age of twenty-five , she had slaved in other peoples houses for a pittance . |
| 27 | It is a sad comment on our society that the Government can not see what they have done to young people and can not see the relationship between what they have done and the crime rate . |
| 28 | we was engaged , oh I have talked to other people but we was engaged in making locks but most of the locks , well they did do a , er wardrobe locks , small cabinet locks , lever locks but one of the biggest kind of locks we di er made was the locks for car cars and vans which , in them days , was was fantastic because most of the car bodies was of wood , the , the , the , the framework was wood , so erm the locks er were three or four , four by five er seven by eight and selvedges on them fourteen inches long , er bolts er the , the bolt mechanism would be anything from five eighths to an inch in di er er square with a radius on the end erm th there was er there was the sidecar locks which were smaller erm that was the sort of locks they made . |
| 29 | TWO residential homes which for many years have cared for young people and the elderly are being closed by the Salvation Army . |
| 30 | Erm , er , clearly if you 're a , a net importer of agriculture , you have benefited from other people 's protectionism . |