Example sentences of "people [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archaeologists can reveal only very fragmentary glimpses of how people lived at any period , but what they imagined and thought is beyond recovery — the meagre scraps of records are useless or , at best , tantalizing in that they provide details torn from their context . |
| 2 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 3 | Mr Rowse the healer at 93 Mafeking Street , a Miss Potter and sixteen cats at No. 95 , themselves at No. 97 , a Mr Hill in a ménage à trois at No. 90 — perhaps all the normal people lived down another street ? |
| 4 | Did he shoot the other people involved by any chance ? |
| 5 | The Inland Revenue reckoned 15 million people came into this category . |
| 6 | People came in this morning about nine o'clock wanting |
| 7 | About eighteen people escaped from this tunnel and they were not all recaptured until four days later . |
| 8 | People elbowed past each other to the door . |
| 9 | He chose a route back down the hill that did not involve too many serious gradients , moving from Roseberry Road to Warburton Drive to Chesterton Terrace and , from there , doubling back along a series of streets with an offensively tangible air of esprit de corps — Lowther Park Drive , where people called to each other over their Volvos and , even worse , Stapleton Road , a place that seemed almost permanently on the verge of a street party . |
| 10 | According to an Amal statement two people died in this attack , including the group 's local deputy commander , Mahmud Haydar . |
| 11 | And two years ago , there were calls for coach seat belts after two people died in this crash on the A40 near Oxford . |
| 12 | Seventeen million people died in this war and we should never forget . |
| 13 | There was no sign of anger or hatred : people looked at each other as if the incredible had happened . |
| 14 | People looked at each other in astonishment . |
| 15 | Erm and that that was very disturbing , not many people knew about that letter , and certainly it was n't something that the that the probation staff who saw it , erm told anybody about . |
| 16 | is that that the consultation is a problem the legislation which takes away the requirement for several developments to promote valuable time and be advertised prior to the application so the first most people knew about this application was after this this opportunity prior to that to discuss it with the development before it was submitted . |
| 17 | Well I 'll you know I remember the time of the oh I remember it well , the , the nineteen twenty six strike , oh boy , there was twenty six people slept in that barn in one , one night . |
| 18 | Further , the data can be used to reveal a good deal about the composition of households — who lived with whom — but far less about the character and quality of relationships which people had with each other ( Laslett , 1972a , p. 1 ; Anderson , 1980 , pp. 36–7 ) . |
| 19 | Few people travelled at that time who did n't have to . |