Example sentences of "people have [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm so er it 's sometimes possible to borrow from the university but they usually , they usually make it very difficult for one so er oh thanks , erm so erm anyway because with a thing like people 's accounts of dreams you may want to sort of go back and look at them , you know , sort of how people have expressed them in their own words , they may have er you know produced some nice interesting quotes or something like that |
| 2 | Some people have likened it to a teapot , though I have never been able to make out why . |
| 3 | yeah people have seen them at the discos and , will do , and er even , even those that gives patterns or designs people are buying , have in the house now instead of watching television , sit and watch the pattern on the wall er , but erm |
| 4 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 5 | Why should the girls have to you know , lose their savings and money that money that people have given them as gifts just because , you know they do n't want to give out any money ! |
| 6 | People have done it in the past and have regretted it . |
| 7 | People have converted them into showers , poolside bars , intimate snugs in gay bars , fish tanks ( a favourite ) , aviaries , greenhouses , bookcases , cocktail cabinets , barbecues ( you take the glass out and add a chimney stack ) , coffins and lavatories ( if that can be counted as a conversion ) . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's extraordinary , most people have dismissed her as a hype-merchant who 's just good at working the system , but then she delivers something like this . |
| 9 | Only nine people have made it to the top in winter — and one died on the way down . |
| 10 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 11 | The , the Post Office , the erm erm telephone people have charged her for the erm a new phone when it 's , and it 's her o her own phone ! |
| 12 | A number of concerned people have contacted me over the past few weeks over my absence from the pages of Shooting Gallery . |
| 13 | Some people have had them with a solid roof |
| 14 | People have criticised us with some justification , but I do n't feel under pressure . |
| 15 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 16 | Over the years people have accused me of not being quick . |
| 17 | Tell you what if they 've got a hydraulic jack in there , several people have to buy it off him , the boys will buy it off |
| 18 | If we look at rule six , and we 've all been given rulebooks , if people have brought them with us , what we have to do is bend that rule so that it applies to branches , not members . |
| 19 | People have told me on the phone that I sound cos I 've got a deep voice I |
| 20 | ‘ People have helped me in the past so I thought I would give them a help along the way , ’ he said . |