Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 2 | " I learnt to live with other people when I was in the Services , but when you 've paid for your own room and it is n't your domain you feel insecure . |
| 3 | She knew how much he hated relying on other people or being involved in their affairs . |
| 4 | The police began to search for various people but our security system was very good and we had been warned about what was happening . |
| 5 | If they started pinching from old people and things like that |
| 6 | The direct questions we needed to ask of deaf people could not be asked adequately , since we were only language learners . |
| 7 | She said that she chose to write with other people when she wanted to write a story , because other people helped to think of more ideas , and it was more fun . |
| 8 | So we did suggest and I did believe your party to support erm , a process where we did consult with local people but we also took other factors into consideration . |
| 9 | I 've learned to live with my disability , and learned to live without other people , so it 's no skin off my nose . |
| 10 | Ample opportunity appeared to exist for local people to obtain free advice on basic legal problems . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Instead , we had to play on other people 's grounds . |
| 14 | Eden was soon complaining that , with the departure of Truman and Acheson , he had to deal with inexperienced people in Washington . |
| 15 | They always had to share with other people , our elderly relatives . |
| 16 | The recording started with the news-reader announcing that Harriet Shakespeare had replied to Free People 's demands . |
| 17 | Sam had worked with disabled people to gain his award , and helped youngsters in the Combined Cadet Force . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |