Example sentences of "the people at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people at the coffee shop readily accepted me as one of their own . |
| 2 | The people at the front were shouting at him , the news of his message was running through the crowd like a grass fire . |
| 3 | I shall speak to the people at the bridgehead . ’ |
| 4 | The people at the next table moved their chairs forward imperceptibly . |
| 5 | He moaned more loudly and the people at the next table held their drinks in mid-air . |
| 6 | Now , it is Kingfisher which has become a favourite — not because the people at the helm have great shopkeeping flair but because their cautious and unflamboyant management style has created a retailing empire of solid reliability . |
| 7 | THE people at the Museum of the Moving Image are becoming rather excited about a new exhibit being installed on Monday Dec 11 : a full organza dress , lined with peach silk crepe de chine , and decorated with ivory re-embroidered lace , crystal beading , peach silk chiffon and some hand-dyed rosettes . |
| 8 | One time , the people at the hospital did n't even tell Gloria that Baby had been moved . |
| 9 | The idea of the UFO freak suggests boozy , bearded eccentrics or ladies in twin sets in contact with Venus , but the people at the Communion show were a disappointingly ordinary bunch . |
| 10 | Would n't it be better not to translate Billy 's invitation to come forward , as the people at the Welsh meeting understood English and it allowed a quiet moment between Billy 's phrases ? |
| 11 | True , it is the people at the bottom of the ladder and below it who benefit from Mr Smith 's thin tax cuts but £100 a year helps little — and the saving would be more than eliminated by an upward move in mortgage rates . |
| 12 | We have found out about the business side from the people at the factory . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ The people at the Tate house were killed because they were into some bad shit . |
| 14 | The people at the GPO were also remarkably efficient , since letters addressed as vaguely as ‘ The Old Lady in the TV Programme , Somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales ’ were faithfully delivered . |
| 15 | Notice the vital few words with the people at the garage , the bank , the booking-office , the doctor 's surgery . |
| 16 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 17 | The party is being held in a ballroom the size of Carnegie Hall and they 've forgotten to provide a podium so the people at the back have no idea you 're there . |
| 18 | The study of crime and justice is one of the few fields where there is evidence about relations between the state and the people at the lowest level . |
| 19 | ‘ The people at the other bank could n't have been nicer . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps the people at the V&A are embarrassed ? |
| 21 | Steven Stud , 40 , said : ‘ I can only surmise that the people at the Cambridge hospice did n't want us there . |
| 22 | ‘ If the people at the church find out Ernie 's turned Bolshevik I wo n't be able ter old me 'ead up in there ever again . ’ |
| 23 | It can not be said often enough that these are not the people at the top of the organization , but those at the bottom . |
| 24 | Unless there is a really determined effort to ‘ burn the books ’ , and reduce this tangle of bureaucracy , the people at the bottom of the organization on whom everything depends feel an increasing lack of responsibility for the achievement of the objective . |
| 25 | I remember that the performance of the enormous Wigan props , Ken Gee and Frank Whitcombe , caused the people at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1946 to cry , ‘ That 's it . |
| 26 | Persuade the people at the top to replace company cars with a salary equivalent . |
| 27 | The other thing I was slightly concerned about it , if it 's a slight digression is the fact that the people at the Lyceum at the Assembly Hall last Saturday did n't know , had n't been told anything about the equipment |
| 28 | I mean I 've got my own thoughts , I have to be careful here that you know I 've got to try and pull together what you think because at the end of the day it 's it 's very important that it reflects the way we work in school , not the way I perceive I we work in in school because you 're the people at the chalk first . |
| 29 | surely that also suits the , the people at the bottom because i be because the , the government is , is producing work in effect it means that the people at the bottom have jobs and , and can earn money and , and so they 're , they 're lot actually improves . |
| 30 | surely that also suits the , the people at the bottom because i be because the , the government is , is producing work in effect it means that the people at the bottom have jobs and , and can earn money and , and so they 're , they 're lot actually improves . |