Example sentences of "people [vb base] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Master and dame then went off to pass time with a neighbour , while the young people sit and talk happily around a good coal fire : " More free from care than knight or squire " . |
| 2 | Rather , people fear and stigmatise fairly specific things , people and conditions , even though they may admittedly know very little about them . |
| 3 | Even though no two people speak or write in just the same way , groups of people share sufficient language characteristics ( of accent , vocabulary and grammar ) to bind them together and to distinguish them from other groups . |
| 4 | But would preventive compulsory treatment be so terrible if , without it , people deteriorate and end up in hospital ? |
| 5 | I thought that controlling rebellious minorities was a step that all countries would have to take , but I found that if people discuss and compromise then most disagreements can be solved quite easily . |
| 6 | I 'm sure that 's why so many people compromise and end up in relationships which they do n't really want to be in . |
| 7 | These wishes go straight back to childhood , and so religion represents a transference from childhood and a kind of emotional infantilism in which people try and make out that they 're still children , as it were , even though they , even though they really are n't . |
| 8 | well you know I know that some people do but do n't back down afterwards and then say oh well never mind it was my fault cos it 's not your fault . |
| 9 | A lot of people think that round here , several of us did it in my street because we wanted to get away . |
| 10 | Very busy though , you 've always got people come and walk backwards and forwards . |