Example sentences of "people [vb base] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local people say they 'll keep fighting to get it banned . |
| 2 | And what sort of price are we talking about when people say they ought to have a computer ? |
| 3 | Yeah , that unfortunately the majority of people say you 'll get money in a couple of days , then the person would start to argue , because they need their money now to go and buy their shopping . |
| 4 | She says after each of these cases people say you should do something but it 's very difficult to see what you could do . |
| 5 | Yet Sally 's no slave to fashion : ‘ I think fashion should be fun and you should wear what you feel comfortable in , not what people say you should wear . |
| 6 | No you do n't normally have , some people say you should have slip-ons |
| 7 | There 's a lot of talk about forgiving or forgetting is n't there , some people say I can forgive but I can never forget . |
| 8 | ‘ People say I must regret joining United , but I 'm still pleased I came because working for Dave has been a great learning experience , ’ said Marwood . |
| 9 | He walks about at night , and people say he can see in the dark . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's certainly true that if people suggest they will go to the appeal procedure then we will do almost everything we can to avoid that , which means in some cases we 're letting people get away with something that you would n't let others get away with , simply because they 're being difficult — well , not being difficult , they would be just exercising their rights . ’ |
| 11 | Well , that 's all right ; I suppose people figure he can spend his money on whatever . |
| 12 | " I lose all control when people know it will burn . |
| 13 | Some people reckon they can sleep on the proverbial clothes line , but most of us need a bed and a comfortable one at that . |
| 14 | We now know that opinion polls are almost meaningless except as a rough guide to the sort of views that people believe they ought to express in public . |
| 15 | And people believe they would believe this country , although I 'm very grateful to be here . |
| 16 | However , some people believe it can prevent you from taking a more distanced and helpful approach . |
| 17 | There is the danger of tautology and of failing to distinguish between how a system operates and the way in which people believe it should operate . |
| 18 | Some people find they can distinguish between the vibration pattern made by people talking , running water , a knock at the door , footsteps , music . |
| 19 | Most people find they can improve their recall of dreams with practice . |
| 20 | People feel they can tell a lot from a handshake and they are quite right . |
| 21 | But surely , if people feel they can produce something which will stand up to repeated inspection , one should expect only the very best . |
| 22 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 23 | Right , now that 's what a decimal is a decimal is , that 's what a decimal is , and there are some people think we should write them like this , or you could n't , you could n't do this . |
| 24 | people think they ought to do something for you . |
| 25 | Parochial self-interest — People think they will lose something of value as a result . |
| 26 | I do n't know whether people think they can move a dust extract in an hour or two hours . |
| 27 | People think they can spend them anywhere and they can not . ’ |
| 28 | Then next day people think you should have things they have n't seen before . |