Example sentences of "people [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the first maypole was erected the Gawthorpe people regarded it as a sign of their independent spirit . ’ |
| 2 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 3 | But now the firm which employs 150 people in Belle Vale Road , Gateacre , wants people to see it as a classy and versatile product . |
| 4 | Instead of putting their money into business , people lent it to the government in the hope that ERNIE ( the nickname of the Electronic Random Number Indicator ) would select their number for the top prize ( then ) of a modest £1,000 . |
| 5 | By the time Ceauşescu came to lay the foundation stone of the palace in June 1984 , its title had been changed from Casa Poporlui to Casa Republicii ( from the ‘ House of the People ’ to ‘ House of the Republic ’ ) just in case , the local jokers remarked , the people got it into their heads to move in as well . |
| 6 | it was the cream of the milk , well you used to like it , well sort of , some people make it with water , that 's why I made it all milk , are you going to try it again with water ? and just a drop of milk on top |
| 7 | Will you restrict what 's , how , how are you collecting , people bring it to you , or will you actually |
| 8 | If you had written that package , would you be angered by people using it without paying ? |
| 9 | Since then the Edinburgh Zoo has seen upwards of 50 000 people using it for this purpose in a year . |
| 10 | Many people borrow it for a day from a sympathetic relative . |
| 11 | Yes you think it 's people expect it to be quick do n't they ? |
| 12 | Did people expect it to be liquified and work on it until it happened , or was it just an accidental discovery ? |
| 13 | It 's nice that people say it to you unprompted . |
| 14 | So if people want it to be there it should be there , no question . |
| 15 | Lots of people want it to , er suggest that it ought to be holiday but |
| 16 | On the one hand there are those who argue , in a fairly simplistic way , that if military expenditure is high , it must be because the people want it to be so . |
| 17 | The whole process is inescapable precisely because more and more people want it to be so . |
| 18 | I mean , some people want it for income , so if they want that sort of fifteen hundred pounds coming in , and they both want access to it , I 'm quite happy to pay it into a joint account , providing it does n't actually give them a tax problem , in |
| 19 | Few people used it during the day and those who were there when Wickham entered appeared not to notice him . |
| 20 | The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People tried it to scourge Hollywood ; but Hollywood just giggled . |
| 21 | For years , marble was refused to people wanting it for tombs to provide a supply for the Moloch in Bucharest . |
| 22 | It could be and sometimes was , but i er the standard takes a lot of keeping up and er Much of the influence comes from newspaper and superior people implanting it on the population by reiterating these standards which often are wishful and they would like it to be so , but er They were hard days , they were hungry days . |
| 23 | I put it on , I 've suggested people put it on the Christmas list , I think it would be a good Christmas present |
| 24 | I never used it in the like people put it in the till . |
| 25 | The organisers are expecting 40,000 young people to visit it during its four-day run . |
| 26 | Liz Headleand is known to like cut glass , so people give it to her , on occasions , pleased to have their gift problem thus simply solved . |
| 27 | So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’ |
| 28 | People and their roles have status because other people assign it to them . |
| 29 | ‘ We bring what we believe is the best art , and let people see it in the light of their own country and in the light of their own culture ’ , he says . |
| 30 | The historical process of transforming the world , making it a better place , recovering a pre-lapsarian global Eden in its pristine simplicity , will end up with people selling it to each other by the dollar , pound or yen . |