Example sentences of "people [vb base] what they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ why ca n't people say what they mean ? ’ |
| 2 | On the whole , people use language in a , in a rather sloppy form , it 's ambiguous , they , they know what they mean , other people know what they mean but they put in all sorts of inferences by the way in which it 's phrased or erm the way in which the words string together or past experience of the person . |
| 3 | By consequentialist he means that the moral value or justification of any action is to be found in its consequences , and by eudaemonistic he means that actions are justified when , as a consequence of those actions , people get what they want or what they prefer . |
| 4 | One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear . |
| 5 | The work to be undertaken is an integration of existing literature , and the development of explanations of how people understand what they read . |
| 6 | This is not necessarily true , though , as is said by Stein , Morris and Bransford ( 1978 ) : ‘ rather than emphasise the superiority of semantic over non-sematic processing , it may be more useful to ask how people use what they know ( whether this knowledge is non-semantic , semantic , etc. ) to more precisely encode and retain information . |
| 7 | Kevin would either lock into it or he 'd miss , but you 've got to let these people do what they do and if it does n't work , it does n't work . ’ |
| 8 | It 's worth remembering that all drugs are open to abuse , and that people offer what they believe to be plausible explanations for such abuse : " To escape my problems ' ; " To relieve boredom " ; " To stay awake at parties ' ; " For self-confidence " ; " To be one of the crowd " ; " To help me get on with people " ; " To stop me worrying " ; " To become more creative " ; " To help me study all night " ; " It blows my mind " ; " For a pick-me-up " . |
| 9 | ‘ Remember , people see what they think they should see . ’ |