Example sentences of "of people [v-ing] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 2 | Of people wanting to be dustmen . |
| 3 | The movement was founded by George Fox , who was walking one day on Pendle Hill when , as he said , the sky opened and the Lord showed him a great multitude of people waiting to be saved . |
| 4 | I am puzzled by the hon. Gentleman 's perception of a reserve of unemployed , a sort of Dad 's Army pool of people waiting to be employed . |
| 5 | The lounge was crowded as they entered , pausing in the doorway to join the queue of people waiting to be introduced to the captain . |